Since the Camp 14 Project at Dalhousie University in Halifax began in 2012, the public in Nova Scotia has not always been warm to it.

But the professor behind it said it has grown into something that has changed how Eastern Canada views the North.

It originated in a class taught by Bob Huish, a professor at DU’s Department of International Development Studies, who said that the only practicum offered for that department used to be grant-writing or going abroad with an NGO. What he sought to impress upon students, though, is that that protests have a long history of