Miles Howe

This Was Our Playground

Miles Howe — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:57:23 +0000

In which we condemn 45 years of unabated dumping at Boat Harbour.

We are looking at a rushing torrent of bubbling, dark brown liquid. It gushes out of the mouth of a 2.5 metre pipe. The flow expels hundreds of litres of effluent waste per second. Foul foam, crust, and spray, lines the banks of a canal that contains the noxious outflow.

Passing the Bucks

Miles Howe — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:22:30 +0000

Draft agreement offers Pictou Landing Band $3 million to put Boat Harbour lawsuit on ice

The provincial government has drafted an offer of $3 million to the Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN) in return for the Band postponing their lawsuit against the province for at least two years, according to documents obtained by the Halifax Media Co-op.

A Stable Misery, Part 1.

Miles Howe — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:50:34 +0000

Roger Annis, Editor of Canada-Haiti Action Network, On Post-Earthquake Haiti.

Islamic Info Road Show

Miles Howe — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 01:24:45 +0000

In which we converse with three friendly Haligonian Muslims as they hand out pamphlets.

Scapegoating is never fun. Throughout history, scapegoating has been used as a tactic to divert attention from actual, root causes of issues, and instead blames an easily identifiable target, and incites fear and anger against them.

Mosque Talk. Part 2.

Miles Howe — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:42:03 +0000

In Which We Continue Our Conversation on Being Muslim in Halifax.

Please see the first part of this audio conversation, and then continue here.

Mosque Talk. Part 1.

Miles Howe — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 02:57:21 +0000

In Which We Head to the Mosque, to Talk of Terror, of Peace, and of Other Things.

National news sources are now inundated with ten-year dedications to 9/11. They seem less like a memorial, and more like an effort to justify a decade-long traipse down the oh-so-very-wrong path.

The so-called 'War on Terror' has bankrupted America, and has increasingly militarized our own Canadian economy, with no end in sight.