Conor McCann

Conor McCann is a freelance writer and journalist from St. John's, NL, now based in Melbourne, Australia. After graduating from Memorial University, McCann worked on-air with VOCM News before leaving radio to pursue print media. His work has appeared in publications including Vice, the Maritime Edit, and CBC.

Journalism News

Newfoundland and Labrador’s Restaurant Industry is Broken

The pandemic highlighted long-standing problems within an industry already grappling with abuse and exploitation.

November 16, 2021

We Found the Biggest Newfoundland Dog in Newfoundland

They’re big dogs, but there has to be a biggest. So we found him. But we met many a good dog along the way—all the…

November 13, 2020

I Wrote Ches Crosbie’s Weird Instagram Posts

My hands tremble as I write these words, this foul admission of my greatest professional shame—and yet, I am filled with an incredible lightness.

October 30, 2020

Are There Bears on the Avalon Peninsula? An Investigation

Changing climates and municipal regulations may have unpredictable effects on the island’s black bear—also known as 'dump bear'—population.

October 23, 2020

In Newfoundland and Labrador, Black Lives Matter

“We just started last week. I feel like this is the beginning of something.”

June 10, 2020

Mormon Missionaries Find St. John’s a Rock in the Storm

Given the situation in America, the families of the young missionaries are more relieved than worried that they can’t get back to the United States.

April 10, 2020

Traffic-Lights and Human Sexuality

"In the same way that we cannot will the traffic-light to be green when we want to go, we cannot will people to be sexual…

June 17, 2015