PEI
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.
Drones Could Stop Ducks From Eating Mussel Farmers Out of Business
Can drones stop ravenous, seemingly unstoppable waterfowl?
Oyster Shuckers Gone Wild!
The Shiny Sea Oyster Shucking Championships in PEI is notoriously debauched, with shuckers from all over getting drunk, high, and wild after spending a day competitively shucking shellfish. But this year, the shuckers sobered up.
Thieves Have Stolen $15K of Prince Edward Island Oysters
Last weekend, police in Prince Edward Island, Canada launched an investigation into the theft of $15,000 worth of oysters. According to provincial police, the total loot is roughly 100 boxes of some of Canada’s finest bivalves.
I Was A Teenage Shithead and My Small Town Won’t Let Me Forget It
Growing up in Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island, I was a legendary dirtbag who terrorized the local populace. But no one accepts that I've grown up now.
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."
$500K Offered to Catch Prince Edward Island’s Potato-Tampering Terrorizer
Straight out of a Halloween urban myth, someone has been putting needles in PEI potatoes. Big Potato is on the case.
PEI’s Idea of Improving Abortion Access Is Sending Women to New Brunswick
A late-morning announcement about changes to reproductive health care on Prince Edward Island today revealed everything is just staying the same.
One of PEI’s Only Non-White Political Candidates Had Signs Defaced with Racist Slur
Jacqueline Tuplin is only the second aboriginal woman to run for office in Canada's smallest province.
It Looks Like PEI’s Backwards Anti-Abortion Policy Is Here to Stay
In the throes of an election, male politicians reaffirm abortions won't be performed in Canada's smallest province.
Keep It Canada: Prince Edward Island
Matty heads to PEI to meet a potato farmer, go clam-digging, eat a whole lot of lobster rolls, and cook for his new Islander friends on the beach.
Who’s Putting Needles in Canada’s Potatoes?
The Prince Edward Island Potato Board is offering $50,000 to anyone who can tell them who the hell keeps putting sewing needles in the potatoes from local farms.