HALIFAX - This past Saturday over 100 Haligonians gathered in the park formerly known as Cornwallis Park, across the street from the Westin Hotel. The people in the crowd were a healthy mix of young and old, loud and quiet, politically radical and not-so-radical - everyone had come together to rally against the Halifax International Security Forum. The conference was hosted at the Westin over the weekend as part of NATO’s recent work to reconfigure itself as a security force. Many Canadians who are opposed to Canada’s involvement in Afghanistan and in NATO are concerned that the ...