The Deep Magazine

Homeland

Part Two by M. Halliday

Homeland

Part One by M. Halliday

Cash and Burn

How a self-styled venture capitalist sold Hollywood on a made-in-Nova Scotia video game, burned through more than a million dollars in public money, and left a trail of jilted investors in his wake. by M. Halliday

A History of Violence

Growing up caught between two worlds weighed down by generations of trauma, Oscar Baker III believed violence was in his blood. Facing down that lie changed his life. by M. Halliday

Joe and the Whale

Joe Howlett gave his life to save an animal that may already be past the point of no return. After ten centuries of annihilation, is there any way to undo the damage done? by M. Halliday

The Rock in a Hard Place

A very real conversation with (mostly) millennial Newfoundland about the future of Canada's strangest, stormiest, screwiest province. by M. Halliday

A Prison
Pregnancy

Bianca Mercer spent six months pregnant in Nova Scotia's Burnside jail. How the corrections system failed her, and an ad-hoc group of advocates changed her life. by M. Halliday

Catch and Release

From the Bay of Fundy to Boston, a journey into the short-sighted politics and antiquated economics holding back Atlantic Canada's culinary culture. by M. Halliday

“They Call It Syria Town”

In a shrinking city in Canada’s only shrinking province, one of the country’s largest Syrian refugee communities has found an unlikely home. Inside the tentative transformation of one family, and one city. by M. Halliday

How Not to Die

Why one New Brunswick veteran—afflicted by PTSD, forgotten by the military, and armed with an evangelical faith in the healing power of pot—turned his small town into Canada's medical-cannabis capital. by M. Halliday