Culture, festivals, neighbourhoods and community life, with a new article about every day from our writers and photographer.
Here are our most recent articles, newest first. Each one is free to read and written by a member of our team, with a photograph and a date so you can see when it appeared.
Photo Essays
A practical guide to planning, shooting and sequencing a photo essay about your own street, with advice on autumn light, permission and choosing the frames that carry the story.
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Our events coverage previews and reviews concerts, festivals and gatherings. Here is a practical checklist to run through before you decide which one deserves your evening or your weekend.
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Signing up for a weekly ad-free edition is simple, but a few habits can leave readers disappointed. Thomas Gagnon walks through the common slips and how to steer clear of them.
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A plain look at how a sponsored feature on Lakeshore Ledger is priced, what the fee covers, and which choices make a feature cost more or less for a local business.
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A retired machinist named Walter followed one free article to a small harbour town he had never visited. His story shows what a freely read piece of writing can set in motion.
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Margaret Doyle offers seasonal advice for photo essays in the weeks ahead: how to use low light, bare branches and early dusk to show a place at its best.
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A plain-words guide to the embargo, one trade rule that shapes how our events writers and photographers publish concert and festival previews, and why it matters to readers.
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A plain comparison of following Lakeshore Ledger through free articles or the paid, ad-free weekly newsletter, with a recommendation based on how you actually read.
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A look at how a sponsored feature takes shape here, from the first visit to a local business through drafting, photographs and the label readers see above the headline.
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Readers ask us this more than anything else: are the stories truly free, and how does the magazine keep going? A plain answer from the photographer who has heard it often.
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A look at how our photo essays take shape, from picking a street or shoreline to deciding which frames earn a place, as the autumn light settles across the country.
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Staff photographer Thomas Gagnon explains the cameras, lenses, light habits and simple routines behind our concert and festival previews and reviews, from the first frame to the final caption.
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A practical walkthrough for new subscribers: setting up delivery, finding the longer features, keeping editions you love and passing on what you enjoy, written by our staff photographer.
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A practical list for local business owners weighing a labelled sponsored feature: what to ask, what to prepare and what to settle in writing before any agreement is made.
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A staff photographer on the common mistakes readers make with free editorial stories, from skimming captions to skipping the places behind them, and simple ways to read more rewardingly.
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A plain look at how we price a Photo Essay in CAD, what the fee covers, and which choices about travel, shoot days and rights make it rise or fall.
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Priya follows Colleen, a volunteer organizer, as she asks the magazine to preview and review a small autumn concert, and what that coverage changed for her evening.
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