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Exclusive by Design

Posted by Chris Benjamin on Friday, August 5, 2011, In : journalism 
This recent editorial in The Coast, about the pie-in-the-sky planning process that was HRM by Design, reminded me of something I wrote for Coastlands in 2007 when the plan was being finalized. So, this is kind of an I-told-you-so post...but I wish I'd been wrong:

[community & regional leadership]

<<head>>Exclusive by design

<<Byline>>By Chris Benjamin

<<pull-quote>> there would be buses, thousands of them, and the cop cars would all be pink

In August I moved back t...


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Apparently I'm Big in Germany

Posted by Chris Benjamin on Monday, October 18, 2010, In : Drive-by Saviours 
We left Lachutes in what we thought was plenty of time. But we hit Friday afternoon rush-hour traffic at the outskirts of Montreal. "City squirrels go to the cottage and their kids come back from school," Jeff said, his fingers tapping frantic rhythm on the wheel.

We crawled another hour-and-a-half to our turnoff, then bolted through downtown as the rain hammered everything. We drove by the Canadian Pacific sign and scanned the streetscape with stretched eyes until Jeff pulled the truc...
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