Canada
Sydney lawyer appointed judge of Supreme Court
Protecting communities: Province invests in boats, equipment, training for Brooklyn, N.S., firefighters
Brooklyn firefighters wanted to do more when torrential flooding occurred in their community in July 2023. But they were limited by the equipment and training they had for swiftwater rescues. Those limitations no longer exist after the Department of ...
Ambassadors from Baltic nations Lithuania, Lativa, Estonia visit St. John's, Goose Bay airbase
The ambassadors from Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania are in Newfoundland and Labrador this week. The trio toured Labrador – which involved a visit to 5 Wing Goose Bay – followed by a trip to St. John’s, which included an engagement at Memorial ...
‘Emotionally I have been broken,’ said N.L. social worker assaulted by a teen she was working with
A different person, no longer trusting and no longer carefree, is how a social worker who was brutally beaten by a youth at an individualized living arrangement on the west coast now describes herself. “Emotionally I have been broken,” the woman said ...
Remembering Joseph Henry Denny of Eskasoni, a leader in addiction services
The community of Eskasoni is mourning the loss of Joseph Henry Denny, a leader in addiction recovery. Denny died on Monday at the age of 80. He was foundational in providing addiction recovery services for Mi'kmaw people across the Atlantic region.
Halifax Muslims mourn smiling teen, ‘are scared for their children’
He had a scooter, smiled a lot and asked a lot of questions. “He was like any other healthy child, he was enjoying life,” Hanaa Rashid said. Rashid — head of the Atlantic Muslim Resource Centre — would sometimes see the boy praying at the Ummah ...
Team Gushue Highway completion held up by several factors, including bureaucracy
The final phase of the Team Gushue Highway construction is behind schedule and, according to documents obtained by The Telegram through an access to information request, the federal government appears to be part of what is holding it up. In a March ...
Mackerel bait fishery opening in Atlantic Canada ‘a slap in the face,’ says Newfoundland and Labrador harvesters’ union
The federal government labels it a good news story, but not everyone is happy about news of a mackerel bait fishery opening this spring. During a virtual press conference on Thursday, April 25, Fisheries, Oceans and Canadian Coast Guard Minister ...
Schrödinger's House (of Assembly) cat: N.L. shelter standards expected by June
Politicians don’t usually spend a great deal of time fussing over physics, but it did come up briefly in the provincial legislature on Thursday. It was clear that not all of the MHAs were familiar with Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger ...
Supreme Court of Canada to hear travel ban appeal of Newfoundlander
The Supreme Court of Canada announced Thursday, April 25, it has granted leave to hear an appeal connected with a COVID-19 related travel ban put in place in Newfoundland and Labrador during the pandemic. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association ...
Conservative Leader Poilievre keeps calm, carries on with 'Axe the Tax' tour at Cape Breton stops
SYDNEY MINES, N.S. — Pierre Poilievre’s visit to the Souls Harbour Rescue Mission on Thursday was a relatively conservative stopover in comparison to reports of his visit to an anti-carbon tax convoy close to the New Brunswick-Nova Scotia border ...