Maritimes
This Bhangra Snow Shovelling Video Gives Us Hope for 2017
Not sure how these guys found pure joy in 2016, but I want it!
The Struggling Canadian Coal Town Desperate to Return to Its Roots
On Cape Breton Island, where the last coal mine closed in 2001 after years of industry decline, an underwater mine near the 500-person village of Donkin is set to bring coal back.
Schools in the Maritimes Were Evacuated This Morning Due to a ‘Potential Threat’
A false bomb threat shut down many schools across PEI and Nova Scotia.
Memo to Americans Afraid of Donald Trump: Cape Breton Is Not a Progressive Paradise
It's still definitely better than living under a Trumptalitarian regime.
The Syrian Refugee Crisis Highlights the Maritimes’ Immigration Problem
Few immigrants want to head east of Montreal, and that's a problem for the economically distressed provinces there. But is the Maritimes actually that welcoming to Come-From-Aways?
Scion of Canadian Beer Dynasty Wails as He's Found Guilty of Father's Murder
It was a chaotic, emotional conclusion to a murder trial that exposed the private dysfunction of some of Atlantic Canada’s wealthiest elites.
How to Live, Socialize, and Date in the Maritimes, Canada's Roughest Region
Millennial ennui loses its sting after you've hung in a trailer with a 78-year-old war vet who needs your help bottling homebrew at 11:30 PM.
How A Retired Air Traffic Controller Became One of Canada's Most Unorthodox Electronica Artists
Robert T is the New Brunswick-based father of two with more synth gear than your local hardware store.
Why Rural Maritimers Are Practicing DIY Abortions
"It's 2015, and it might as well be the 1700s in terms of how women get supported here."
The Exodus of the Maritimes’ Creative Class Is Hurting Its Electronic Music Scene
Maritimers feel like the kid brother to Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver.
My Dad's Half-Baked Plan to Introduce Tofu to Atlantic Canada
My father knew there weren't a lot of Asians in Nova Scotia when we moved there in the 70s, but he insisted on making and selling tofu. It seemed like a terrible business model.
Newfoundland's History Tastes Like Salted Cod
I’m an eighth-generation Fogo Islander. We were salt cod people and we’d rarely eat fresh cod, because why would you eat that when you have salted cod? It’s just better.