[NEWS] Five notes from islands: Fogo and Newfoundland, Puerto Rico, Ireland, Just Enough Island, PEI

Jessica Leeder reports on how, with the fragile recovery of the Newfoundland cod fisheries, Fogo Island is investigating the fisheries' new potential, over at The Globe and Mail.

• This Atlas Obscura feature takes a look at the endangered Puerto Rico parrot, the iguaca, facing dire conditions after Hurricane Maria.


• Gerry Lynch makes the argument that, by torpedoing the Brexit agreement, the DUP and the Unionists have set the stage for eventual Irish reunification, over at Slugger O'Toole.


• Atlas Obscura takes a quick look at Just Enough Island, one of the Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence between Ontario and New York literally just big enough to support a cottage and two chairs in the front.


• Éric Grenier suggests that, after the Green Party's Hannah Bell won a byelection in Charlottetown, the Green Party should look to Atlantic Canada for breakthroughs, over at CBC.

[NEWS] Five links about the École Polytechnique massacre

• Yasmin Jiwani writes at The Conversation about how the École Polytechnique massacre of 1989 fits into a wider context of misogyny.


• CBC profiles Erin Hogg, a retired nurse who has kept a tradition of making and wearing white ribbons in memory of the dead of the École Polytechnique going.


• Anne Thériault writes about how the École Polyechnique massacre illustrates the need to recognize gender and misogyny directly, over at MacLean's.


• The Toronto Star reports on commemorations in Ontario of the École Polytechnique massacre.


• Morgan Lowrie reports for the Canadian Press about the latest presentation of the Order of the Rose scholarship, granted to women continuing their studies in engineering, over at The Globe and Mail.

[NEWS] Five links on the Halifax Explosion and its aftermath (#hfex1917)

• CBC shares colourized photographs of the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion.


• Meagan Campbell writes about how traces of the Halifax Explosion can be found in the very trees of that city, over at MacLean's.


• Patrick Cain maps out the homes of as many of the dead of the Halifax Explosion in Halifax as he can. (Some streets, even neighbourhoods, were completely erased.) His interactive map is over at Global News.


• At CBC, Sherri Borden Colley reports on the neglect and discrimination suffered by many African-Canadian victims of the Halifax Explosion.


• Lindsay Jones reports about the Mi'kmaq community of Tufts Cove, it and its inhabitants almost completely overlooked after the explosion, over at The Globe and Mail.