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Great Lakes on the Small Screen | Joe Pera Talks With You
In September 2020, after those months of lockdown, I spent a glorious day visiting my best friend from college. It was one of those visits of the time; we visited almost exclusively outdoors. We were sitting on a bench having a late summer ice cream cone and she said, “You…
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Gitchi-Gami | Lake Superior
Today I’m starting a series of posts that will take us on a tour of the Great Lakes. We’ll take our time; I will have an introductory post to each lake and then subsequent related posts before moving to the next one. We’re going to move west to east, as…
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St. Lawrence Seaway Strike
Something happened last week that has not happened since 1968. A strike shut down 13 locks of the St. Lawrence Seaway between Lake Erie and Montreal trapping boats in the shipping artery and preventing others from entering on either end. Workers with Unifor, Canada’s largest private-sector union, walked out on…
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