Chris Benjamin

Sep 29, 2024 | saltscapes.com | Chris Benjamin

Halifax author Chris Benjamin’s Chasing Paradise takes the classic road memoir genre to a new place of humour and good will, with servings of self-discovery and love added for extra enjoyment. Benjamin, an award-winning writer with a background in environmental issues, social activism, freelance journalism, and short fiction, and a sometime contributor to Saltscapes, is well-acquainted with Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, perhaps the best-known of all road memoirs.

Jul 31, 2024 | staradvertiser.com | Isaac Moriwake |Chris Benjamin |Ed Sniffen

A popular Hawaiian proverb says, “Aohe hana nui ke alu ia,” or “no task is too big when done together by all.” And no task is bigger than meeting the climate emergency. To achieve the huge, rapid turnaround needed to save our future, we all must do it together. Bringing the perspectives of the government, business and non-profit sectors, we recognize all of us need to do our part.

May 29, 2024 | miramichireader.ca | Chris Benjamin

In The Prince: The Turbulent Reign of Justin Trudeau, his highly anticipated new political biography of a sitting Canadian prime minister, Stephen Maher makes the case that Trudeau has been personally and professionally shaped by being a metaphorical prince. That is, he is the son of a popular and long-serving prime minister who for better and worse made significant impact on our national identity.

Mar 25, 2024 | ecologyaction.ca | Chris Benjamin

Originally published in the Canadian Business QuarterlyBy Chris Benjamin and Thomas Thomas Arnason McNeilClimate change is here, and it’s ugly. Three years ago, British Columbia experienced a heat wave that killed more than 600 people. Financially, it was also one of the most expensive disasters in the province’s history, and one piece of the near $35 billion climate change will cost Canada by 2030.

Jan 8, 2024 | atlanticbooks.ca | Lisa Doucet |Karl Wells |Carole Glasser Langille |Chris Benjamin

From Atlantic Books Today #97 spring 2023There are two similar scenes in Leo McKay Jr’s novel, What Comes Echoing Back — one in a school and one in a hospital — that echo one another without redundancy. They are my favourite scenes in the book, and serve multiple purposes of fundamental importance to the reading experience.