Roll credit
Shauna Hatt’s best year working in film in Nova Scotia was 2003. It was the SARS and blackout year in Toronto, a city that for years has been the biggest film production centre in North America outside Los Angeles. American producers, believing the paranoid projections of weak-kneed insurance companies and a plague-ravaged city of mask-wearers,…
Green machine
Hippies, granolas, eco-geeks, activists and other deviants once thought to scorn consumerism now make up one of the fastest-growing billion-dollar market demographics. According to Colorado-based market research company Natural Business Communications, this group spends upwards of US$230 billion a year and makes up one third of the American population. They’re called “Lohas,” a word coined…
Alternative CKDUniverse
This year CKDU turns 20. Two decades of FM broadcasting after a start on closed-circuit radio hooked up to Dalhousie University residences. Like most campus/community stations across Canada, CKDU lasts because of volunteers. Each September, with the flood of new students on campus, people keep making the climb to the fourth floor of Dalhousie University’s…
