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By Alexa Minichiello CBERN Outreach Assistant Our growing dependence on “mechanical slaves” has fundamentally changed our understanding of work, economics, urban planning, gender and science argued author Andrew Nikiforuk to an audience of 200 at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia on May 16, 2012. Nikiforuk, who presented the third and final presentation of [...]

By Alexa Minichiello CBERN Atlantic Outreach Assistant The release of ancient carbons into our atmosphere is causing a “planetary destabilization” according to Alanna Mitchell, Canadian author of Sea Sick. Her Halifax presentation on April 3, 2012 entitled “Carbon and the Oceans: When Oil and Water Mix” and was the second of three in a Canadian [...]

By Alexa Minichiello CBERN Outreach Assistant On Monday April 2, 2012 an audience of 100 attended “Profit vs. Social Responsibility in 2012: Lessons and Changes,” a public presentation organized and facilitated by five students from the Saint Mary’s University Sobey School of Business MBA Program. The presentation, which was supported by the Canadian Centre for [...]