Article Topic: Canada

Edmonton Journal columnist explains Alberta via American Nations

Posted December 19th, 2021 & filed under American Nations, Canada, media appearances.

I’m always grateful when someone who speaks for and from a place I don’t know all that intimately uses American Nations to explain local identity, a sign that I’ve not… Read more »

Quebec to New England transmission project could be delayed by rival

Posted July 28th, 2021 & filed under Canada, climate change, energy, environment, forests, Janet Mills, Maine, Maine dispatches, Massachusetts, New England, New Hampshire, Portland Press Herald, Quebec.

Here in Maine one of the most controversial public policy issues of recent years has been over a project to connect the massive hydroelectric dams in northern Quebec with the… Read more »

Four dams, the Kennebec River and the future of US Atlantic salmon in the balance

Posted January 5th, 2021 & filed under Canada, environment, fishing, Maine, Maine dispatches, Portland Press Herald.

While the pandemic has been raging across the world, a high-stakes battle over the future of one of Maine’s largest river systems has been playing out in an obscure federal… Read more »

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 »

Talking American Nations and the 2020 election with Denmark’s Zetland Magasin

Posted October 31st, 2020 & filed under American Nations, Canada, Denmark, France, Lobster Coast, Maine history, Maine politics, media appearances, Union, US History, US politics.

The world is watching as the U.S. staggers towards the highest stakes election since the 1870s Tuesday, and some reporters have been drawn to American Nations, American Character, Union and… 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 »

How Gov. LePage spent his final year in office

Posted July 9th, 2019 & filed under Canada, Maine, Maine dispatches, Maine politics, Montenegro, Spain, US politics.

Maine’s erstwhile governor, Paul LePage, often tried to keep his travels secret, even taxpayer-funded trips, like his stays at the Trump International Hotel in Washington or his trade mission to… 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 »

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 »

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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