• Anthropology.net looks at the genetics of how the Inuit have adapted to cold weather.
• 'Nathan Smith's Apostrophen shares the author's plans for the coming year.
• Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterling shares Margaret Atwood's commitment to fighting for freedom of expression.
• Crooked Timber asks its readers for recommendations in Anglophone science fiction.
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The Globe and Mail's Corey Mintz looks at how lobster has been priced out of the budgets of many Canadians. Islanders and other Atlantic Canadians, can you tell me of your experiences?

The lobster salad at Toronto’s Nota Bene has been on the menu since George Bush’s son was U.S. president (that is, 2008). So when the dish of steamed Nova Scotia ( Read more... )

The Guardian's Nancy MacPhee reports on the troubles facing the Summerside Lobster Festival. As someone who has enjoyed it the last two times I've been on the Island, I hope it finds a way forward.

It’s an event the City of Summerside took over three years ago, saving it from extinction, but is now looking at possibly turning back over to the ( Read more... )

The Guardian of Charlottetown reports on the popularity of Atlantic Canadian seafood in China.

With middle class incomes on the rise in China, the demand for Atlantic Canadian seafood products is rapidly increasing ( Read more... )

The interior of The Dunes Studio Gallery and Cafe (3622 Brackley Point Road) is full of beautiful things. Last month, I shared a photo of some glass cats for Caturday. Today, I'm sharing some of my photos of sculptures inside the building. Curiously, most of the photos I took were of lobsters.


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The North Shore community of Covehead, encapsulated by the National Park, is one of the more notable fishing communities in its region of the Island, its harbour full of boats and sandbars and a parking lot full of tourists interested in eating and catching seafood.


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In 2014, my parents and I had come to Summerside in time for the end of the Summerside Lobster Festival. This time, we came for the beginning.


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MacLean's shares the Canadian Press report.

A Buddhist-affiliated restaurant in Prince Edward Island has been vandalized, hours after a group of local monks liberated 600 pounds of live lobsters ( Read more... )

I shared Shane Ross' CBC report on my Facebook wall yesterday night, and the general reaction was one of amusement. I was told that many of the lobster fishermen will go back and retrieve the deposited lobsters themselves--apparently that sort of practice, the recovery of food animals released by Buddhist monks into the wild, is common in Southeast ( Read more... )

CBC News' Carolyn Ray notes that Sweden may lead a European Union ban on the import of live North American lobster, for environmental reasons.

Sweden wants a blanket ban on the importation of live North American lobsters across the European Union in an effort to prevent a possible underwater invasion ( Read more... )