The rest of the world is trying to understand what’s going on with the United States and its (currently not quite resolved) election. So I very much enjoyed sharing the… Read more »
Article Topic: Atlantic Canada
How New Brunswick stopped Covid-19 in its tracks
The Canadian province of New Brunswick has weathered the pandemic with zero deaths and no long term care outbreaks and is currently down to just two active cases and no… Read more »
Colony, a six-part series on Maine’s long path to statehood
Maine is celebrating the bicentennial of its statehood this year, but the story of our beginnings lies in the millennia and centuries that preceded March 15th, 1820, the day we… Read more »
Six years after lawmakers reverse ban, alewives have banner run in St. Croix River
For seven years now, I’ve reported on the strange saga of the alewives of the St. Croix River, which forms the border between the US and Canada in eastern Maine… Read more »
Cruise tourism impacts in Maine, a series
Over the past four months I’ve been at work on a series on the impact of cruise ship tourism in Maine, where most ports of call have a smaller year-around… Read more »
Right whales in crisis: speeding ships and missing calves
The disastrous year for the North Atlantic right whale, the world’s second most endangered mammal after the species’ Pacific cousin, doesn’t appear to be abating. After seventeen of the whales… Read more »
Scientists say Atlantic right whales on trajectory to be extinct in 23 years
The North Atlantic right whale, the world’s second most endangered mammal after the species’ Pacific cousin, has has a disastrous year here in the northwest Atlantic. Sixteen of the whales… Read more »