Environment
From Guerrilla Gardening to SPIN Farming – Growing food in the city
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010CKDU’s Operation Wake Up host Felix Kanneman speaks with Garity Chapman from the Ecology Action Centre about Urban Gardening in Halifax.
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We talk about community and collective gardens in Halifax, guerrilla gardening hotspots, school gardening, urban farming, Community Supported Agriculture and the local food revival in Nova Scotia. Garity shares [...]
Halifax Petitions for a Bike Corridor
Thursday, February 18th, 2010Listen online.
The Halifax Cycling Coalition is organizing a petition in support of a “crosstown connector” or “active transportation corridor” through the Halifax peninsula, designed to connect the north and south ends.
CKDU news asked Steve Bedard about the route of the corridor, the role of the city’s Active Transportation Committee, what a corridor would look like [...]
Student group demands end to exclusivity contracts
Monday, December 7th, 2009[Audio: http://www.radio4all.net/files/david@ckdu.ca/3412-1-caf_tues_dec_1(2).mp3]
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Members of Campus Action on Food (CAF), a Dalhousie University student organization, fed over 50 hungry students at a free food serving in the lobby of the Dalhousie Student Union Building on December 1, 2009. The food serving raised awareness about a popular petition to be presented to the DSU Council on December [...]
Haligonians Heat Up for Climate Change
Saturday, December 5th, 2009December 6, 2009
by Tiffany Limgenco
HALIFAX – The city of Halifax has witnessed popular actions as citizens rally together to promote greater awareness on climate change. Participants began with a mini climate change parade on November 28 along Spring Garden Road. Students, professionals and other activists marched down the crowded street, encouraging people to call Prime [...]
Little Sackville River Suffers Oil Spill
Friday, November 13th, 2009Walter Regan on Sackville River Oil Spill (mp3, 14:03)
Early on November 8th several hundred litres of furnace oil made its way into the Little Sackville River, after a line was deliberately cut on a tank outside Buddy’s Billiards on Sackville Drive.
Sackville Rivers Association president Walter Regan says the spill is a blow to the river [...]
How will the oceans weather climate change?
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009by Erica Butler
October 20, 2009
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HALIFAX – While the warming of the ocean is posing huge problems for marine life in the tropics, the North Atlantic ocean where Nova Scotia is situated is less prone to warming waters due to an increase in cold water coming in from melting ice in the arctic.
But it [...]
Food and the Climate Crisis
Monday, October 19th, 2009[Audio: http://www.radio4all.net/files/jcmcnichol@gmail.com/4027-1-final_steinman_piece_oct_18-09.mp3]
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Jesse McNichol,
Monday, 19 October – 2009
HALIFAX – CJLY FM’s Jon Steinman may be familiar to some of our listeners. He’s the host of Deconstructing Dinner, airing on Sundays from 9 am to 10 am on CKDU 88.1fm.
Dalhousie University was fortunate to host Steinman on October 1st, for a talk [...]
Capitalism and the Economic Crisis of 2008
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008The economic crisis of 2008 has been the worst ever in global history. Is capitalism safe from crises or are they bound to occur? Under the free market model, are they avoidable or are they the product of a free market capitalist system where corporations and speculators are allowed to run rampant?
Featuring an interview with [...]
September Edition of Groundwire is ready for listening
Monday, September 15th, 2008In the September edition of Groundwire, the August Six Nations Gathering, over a hundred people meet in Tatamagouche Nova Scotia for FreeSchool, and an in-depth look into the Tar Sands in Alberta. Plus headlines on a strike at Montreal’s largest hostel, Bill C484 replaced by Bill C543, and a union drive at Queen’s University. This month’s [...]
Atlantica? No! Democracy? Yes!
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008The last Tuesday of every month on Operation Wake Up! is focused on Atlantica, an Atlantic Canada –Northeast U.S. corporate blueprint for mega-highway, mega port and mega energy development to usher in sweatshop goods from overseas, as well as to move energy from the Atlantic provinces into the heartland of consumption in the U.S. The [...]
