A Bit More Detail

• The Prince Edward Island National Park, unsurprisingly, was devastated by Hurricane Dorian. Global News reports.


• The Mi'kmaq community of Lennox Island lost large amounts of frozen lobster after Hurricane Dorian. CBC PEI reports.


• Peter Rukavina has mapped the busiest and sleeping roads on PEI, here.


• Growth in ridership on Trius Transit in Charlottetown continues to outpace expectations, CBC PEI reports.


• The work that the Charlottetown suburb of Cornwall is doing, diverting the Trans-Canada Highway to build a Main Street, is authentically exciting urbanism. CBC PEI reports.

• In remembering Stan Lee, CityLab points to the evocative image of New York City that he and Marvel Comics created.


• Global News notes that Calgary is approaching the day of its referendum over the 2026 Winter Olympics. (Calgarians, vote against the idea.)


• Guardian Cities shares these images depicting what London would look like if any number of plans for new architectural wonders had come to pass.


• CityLab notes how community activity helped reclaim Zeedijk street in Amsterdam.


• Guardian Cities shares photos of the final days of the traditional fish market in the Senegalese capital of Dakar.

• Pork consumption in Germany is dropping, a consequence of changing demographics and changing dietary preferences. Bloomberg reports.
  
• Raids on illegal immigrants by ICE have the potential to badly hurt agriculture in California. Bloomberg reports.


• The story of how an effort to open up the Arctic surf clam fishery of Newfoundland, particularly to natives and non-natives alike became a big mess is sad. The National Post reports.


• Apparently, to cope with injuries and chronic pain, the lobster fishers of Maine are coping by using heroin. Is this going on in Atlantic Canada, too? VICE reports.


• Things like the Trump plan to substantially replace fresh foods with boxed non-perishable goods in food stamp problems have happened to Native Americans already. The dietary and health consequences are significantly negative. NPR reports.

• News that lobsters experience pain when lowered into boiling water will have implications for the Island. CBC reports.


• The National Post reports on a Legion hall in Tignish that shamefully refused a Sikh man entry on account of his headdress.


• Happily, shipments of The Globe and Mail's Saturday edition to Prince Edward Island have resumed. CBC goes into detail.


• The Prince Edward Island government has contracted with three companies to grow three million grams of marijuana for local sale. CBC reports.


• The University of Prince Edward Island will be offering a two-year Master's program in tourism. CBC reports.

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.

• Centauri Dreams links to archival video painstakingly collected from the Voyager missions.


• Citizen Science Salon notes ways ordinary people can use satellite imagery for archaeological purposes.


• Good news: Asian carp can't find a fin-hold in Lake Michigan. Bad news: The lake is so food-deprived nothing lives there. The Crux reports.


• D-Brief notes that, once every second, a fast radio burst occurs somewhere in the universe.


• Dangerous Minds looks at the psychedelic retro-futurism of Swedish artist Kilian Eng.


• Dead Things notes the recovery of ancient human DNA from some African sites, and what this could mean for study.


• Cody Delistraty reconsiders the idea of the "coming of age" narrative. Does this make sense now that we have abandoned the idea of a unitary self?


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining the evolution of icy bodies around different post-main sequence stars.


• The Great Grey Bridge's Philip Turner notes anti-Putin dissident Alexei Navalny.


• Hornet Stories notes reports of anti-gay persecution in Azerbaijan.


• Language Log takes a look at the dialectal variations of southern Ohio.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money starts a discussion about what effective disaster relief for Puerto Rico would look like.


• The LRB Blog looks at the aftermath of the recent earthquake in Mexico, and the story of the buried girl who was not there.


• Marginal Revolution notes that Toronto real estate companies, in light of rent control, are switching rental units over to condos.


• Naked Anthropologist Laura Agustín takes a look at the origins and stories of migrant sex workers.


• The NYR Daily talks about the supposedly unthinkable idea of nuclear war in the age of Trump.


• Drew Rowsome gives a strongly positive--and deserved review to the Minmar Gaslight show The Seat Next to the King, a Fringe triumph now playing at the Theatre Centre.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains how so many outer-system icy worlds have liquid water.


• Towleroad features Jim Parsons' exploration of how important is for him, as a gay man, to be married.


• Window on Eurasia suggests Russian language policy limiting minority languages in education could backfire, and wonders if Islamization one way people in an urbanizing North Caucasus are trying to remain connected to community.

• At Apostrophen, 'Nathan Smith writes about the status of his various writing projects.


• Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterling links to an article examining pieces of software that have shaped modern music.


• blogTO notes the expansion of the Drake Hotel to a new Junction site. Clearly the Drake is becoming a brand.


• Citizen Science Salon looks at how Internet users can help fight illegal fishing in the Pacific.


• Crooked Timber asks readers for new Doctor Who candidates.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper finding that the presence of Proxima Centauri would not have inhibited planetary formation around Alpha Centauri A and B.


• The LRB Blog notes the growing fear among Muslims in the diaspora.


• The Map Room Blog shares a reimagined map of the Paris metro.


• The Volokh Conspiracy and Towleroad have very different opinions on the nomination of Neil Gorusch to the US Supreme Court.


• Transit Toronto reports on the reopening of the TTC parking lot at Yorkdale.


• Whatever's John Sclazi responds to the past two weeks of Trump-related chaos, and is not impressed.


• Window on Eurasia notes that the Russian Orthodox Church carries itself as an embattled minority because it is one, and looks at the future of Russian federalism in regards to Tatarstan.

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 lobster, maple-smoked bacon, preserved dill, avocado and buttermilk ranch dressing disappeared in early fall, regulars noticed.

Servers told querying patrons that the quality of lobster was not up to par. The harder truth was that the crustacean had gotten too rich for our blood. In the past five years, co-owner David Lee watched per-pound cost rise from around $9 to $12. Even if Nota Bene charged $29 for the appetizer, the dish would be unprofitable.

“The price is just crazy,” Lee says. “And there’s only so much the guest will pay for lobster.” When it reached $16 a pound in September, he took the salad off the menu.

People love to tell you, with the fanfare of revealing that Michael Caine’s real name is Maurice Micklewhite, that lobster was once so inexpensive and undesirable that it was fed to servants and prisoners.

However, this is not back in the day. And to anyone fewer than 100 years old and not living on the Atlantic, lobster is a delicacy.

North Atlantic lobsters (a.k.a. Homarus americanus, American lobster, Boston lobster or Canadian lobster), which are indigenous to our eastern shores, average one to one and a half pounds. Cooked, they contain between 20 per cent to 30 per cent meat. If the cost at the fishmonger is $15 a pound, that makes a pound of meat worth about $60.

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

Atlantic Canada’s seafood companies are ready to position themselves in the Chinese market, with several representatives just returning from this year’s Seafood Expo Asia, which was held in Wanchai, Hong Kong, Sept. 6 to 8.

The Lobster Council of Canada led an Atlantic delegation of 14 companies to the expo, thanks to an investment of $124,133 from the Government of Canada through ACOA’s Business Development Program, and an additional $20,000 in support from the four Atlantic provinces.

“The Asian market has represented fantastic export growth for all sectors of the Canadian lobster industry with both live and processed Canadian lobster featured on menus and in retail/online platform sales throughout the region,” said Geoff Irvine of the Lobster Council of Canada.

• Bloomberg talks about Poland's problems with economic growth, notes that McMansions are poor investments, considers what to do about the Olympics post-Rio, looks at new Japanese tax incentives for working women, looks at a French war museum that put its stock up for sale, examines the power of the New Zealand dairy, looks at the Yasukuni controversies, and notes Huawei's progress in China.


• Bloomberg View is hopeful for Brazil, argues demographics are dooming Abenomics, suggests ways for the US to pit Russia versus Iran, looks at Chinese fisheries and the survival of the ocean, notes that high American population growth makes the post-2008 economic recovery relatively less notable, looks at Emperor Akihito's opposition to Japanese remilitarization, and argues that Europe's soft response to terrorism is not a weakness.


• CBC notes that Russian doping whistleblowers fear for their lives, looks at how New Brunswick farmers are adapting to climate change, and looks at how Neanderthals' lack of facility with tools may have doomed them.


• The Globe and Mail argues Ontario should imitate Michigan instead of Québec, notes the new Anne of Green Gables series on Netflix, and predicts good things for Tim Horton's in the Philippines.


• The Guardian notes that Canada's impending deal with the European Union is not any model for the United Kingdom.


• The Inter Press Service looks at child executions in Iran.


• MacLean's notes that Great Lakes mayors have joined to challenge a diversion of water from their shared basin.


• National Geographic looks at the elephant ivory trade, considers the abstract intelligence of birds, considers the Mayan calendar's complexities, and looks at how the young generation treats Pluto's dwarf planet status.


• The National Post notes that VIA Rail is interested in offering a low-cost bus route along the Highway of Tears in northern British Columbia.


• Open Democracy notes that the last Russian prisoner in Guantanamo does not want to go home, and wonders why the West ignores the Rwandan dictatorship.


• TVO considers how rural communities can attract immigrants.


• Universe Today suggests sending our digital selves to the stars, looks at how cirrus clouds kept early Mars warm and wet, and notes the discovery of an early-forming direct-collapse black hole.


• Variance Explained looks at how Donald Trump's tweets clearly show two authors at work.


• The Washignton Post considers what happens when a gay bar becomes a bar with more general appeal.


• Wired notes that the World Wide Web still is far from achieving its founders' dreams, looks at how news apps are dying off, and reports on the Univision purchase of Gawker.