Article Topic: Atlantic Canada

Talking with CBC-Nova Scotia about the 400-year backstory to the 2020 election

Posted November 4th, 2020 & filed under American Character, American Nations, Atlantic Canada, Canada, media appearances, Nova Scotia, Union, US History, US politics.

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 »

How New Brunswick stopped Covid-19 in its tracks

Posted May 11th, 2020 & filed under Atlantic Canada, Border Issues, Canada, coronavirus, covid19, New Brunswick, Portland Press Herald.

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

Posted February 16th, 2020 & filed under American Indian Affairs, Atlantic Canada, Colony, Lobster Coast, Maine, Maine Bicentennial, Maine history, New Brunswick, Portland Press Herald, US dispatches, US History.

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

Posted June 25th, 2019 & filed under American Indian Affairs, Atlantic Canada, Border Issues, Canada, environment, fishing, Maine, Maine dispatches, New Brunswick, Oceans.

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 »

Warming of Gulf of Maine choking right whale food supply

Posted May 15th, 2019 & filed under Atlantic Canada, climate change, environment, Maine, Mayday, New England, Oceans, science stories.

In recent years, the endangered North Atlantic right whale has effectively abandoned summer feeding grounds in the eastern Gulf of Maine, showing up instead in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence,… Read more »

Cruise tourism impacts in Maine, a series

Posted June 12th, 2018 & filed under Atlantic Canada, business reporting, Canada, Caribbean, economy, environment, Maine, Maine dispatches, New England, Oceans, Portland, Portland Press Herald, transportation.

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 »

Maine’s US Senators seek federal response to warming Gulf of Maine

Posted May 3rd, 2018 & filed under Angus King, Atlantic Canada, Canada, climate change, environment, Maine, Mayday, New England, Oceans, Portland Press Herald, science stories, US politics.

Last week I reported on Canadian researchers having found record-warm water pouring into the primary deepwater entrance to the Gulf of Maine and Maine scientists confirming that they’ve seen similar,… Read more »

Record-warm deepwater pouring into the Gulf of Maine, researchers find

Posted April 24th, 2018 & filed under Atlantic Canada, Canada, climate change, environment, Maine, Mayday, New England, Oceans, Portland Press Herald, science stories.

In today’s Portland Press Herald, I wrote about a Canadian research team’s discovery that record-warm Gulf Stream water is pouring into the Gulf of Maine, probably because of a weakening… Read more »

Right whales in crisis: speeding ships and missing calves

Posted January 23rd, 2018 & filed under Atlantic Canada, Canada, environment, fishing, Florida, Georgia, Oceans, Portland Press Herald, transportation.

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

Posted October 26th, 2017 & filed under Atlantic Canada, Canada, environment, fishing, Maine, Nova Scotia, Oceans, Portland Press Herald, whales.

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 »

COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He is the author of six books that have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and inspired an NBC television drama. He is currently Director of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Affairs at Salve Regina University. As State and National Affairs Writer at the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2016. He is a contributing editor at POLITICO and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.

A native of Maine, he has reported from more than 50 countries and seven continents and lived for more than four years in Eastern Europe during the collapse of the Soviet empire and the transition that followed. A graduate of Tufts University and the University of Chicago he is past Pew Fellow in International Journalism at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a recipient of the Jane Bagley Lehman Award for Excellence in Public Advocacy.

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