Michael Leger

Lying in the flood plain are the Trans-Canada Highway, all electricity lines that link Nova Scotia to the country, several farming communities and parts of the university town of Sackville. If the port of Halifax and the island of…
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It's one thing to watch a crowd move down a street, but it's another thing to be in it. It's like being pulled by a current—it's hard to move against it or exit, and even harder to stop in the middle of it.
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On June 17th, the House of Commons voted to affirm that we are in a national climate emergency. It passed 186 to 63. Just a week prior, Trudeau announced that by 2021 there will be a ban on single-use plastics. And, of course, Trudeau also…
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The Irvings are one of Canada’s wealthiest families and are cited as being one of the first Canadian corporations to start using tax havens in the '70s. By some accounts, they own more land than the Sheikh of Qatar—they’re ranked 13th in…
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The political and cultural differences between rural and urban areas are perennial, yet this divide has been particularly charged since Trump. Is the fascination fundamentally political, cultural, or something else entirely?
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How does Yemen's epidemic fit in with the recent history of cholera and what progress has been made towards eradication? The clinical solution to cholera is strikingly simple, which is what makes the political obstacles all the more tragic.…
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Much like America’s Midwest “fly-over” states, New Brunswick is colloquially known as a “drive-through” province. It’s unfortunate that its politics are often overlooked as irrelevant and peripheral on a national level, because looking at…
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