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Julia Cook

Julia Cook is a freelance writer and marketer from Charlottetown. She has worked as a reporter with CBC P.E.I. and N.L. and now works on projects throughout the Maritimes and Canada. If you're interested in being profiled on her summer column, The Slash Workers, you can email her at matsyliving@gmail.com.

    Latest from Julia Cook

    Acoustic piano hitting a high note on P.E.I.

    Piano lessons and sales are becoming popular with newcomers.
    Canada PEI

    Meet Nathan Veld: Patient care worker, cement creator, carpenter and painter

    For five years, Nathan Veld from Orwell was living the full-time employee dream as a patient care worker. He gave it up this year to go back to casual work and pursue the "slasher" lifestyle.
    Canada PEI

    Meet Dean Martin: Bus driver, teacher, snow plow operator and chicken farmer

    Dean Martin is a driver of all sorts. In addition to driving tour buses, Martin works as a school bus driver, snow plow operator, carpenter, chicken farm worker and fire school teacher.
    Canada PEI

    Meet Craig Clark: Guidance counsellor, DJ and paddleboard instructor

    Craig Clark from Stratford, P.E.I., finds his workplace in many different places: in schools, in a DJ booth and at the beach — the last place is where he's launched his new company.
    Canada PEI

    'That's the dream, right?' Transitioning into being a full-time artist: Slash Workers

    Name a career. Any career. It’s likely Lyndsey Paynter from Charlottetown has had it, at one point or another.
    Canada PEI

    Meet Neil Emery — gravedigger, fireworks specialist and all-round odd jobber: Slash Workers

    This summer, we're highlighting people on P.E.I. who are "slash workers" — Islanders who work more than one job at at a time. Neil Emery is a gravedigger and fireworks specialist in addition to his other odd jobs.
    Canada PEI