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Oil sector growth and other economic drivers expected to fuel rebound of St. John’s area housing market
Historically, when economic drivers such as employment, growth in the working population and average weekly earnings stabilize or improve, the housing market will experience growth. According to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) senior ...
St. Lewis drilling program wraps for summer
ST. LEWIS, N.L. NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR CANADA Search Minerals, a Vancouver-based mining company assessing a deposit it calls “Deep Fox” of critical rare earth elements (CREES) two kilometres from St. Lewis, has wrapped up its ...
Dwight Ball to open annual Placentia Bay Industry Showcase
PLACENTIA, N.L. NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR CANADA Premier Dwight Ball will be on hand for the annual Placentia Bay Industry Showcase in Placentia next week. The event, hosted by the Placentia Area Chamber of Commerce, will take place from ...
Lots of interesting things growing at Pynn's Brook research station
There’s a lot things growing at the Western Agriculture Centre: Agriculture Research Station in Pynn’s Brook. On Monday, Sabrina Ellsworth took Fisheries and Land Resources Minister Gerry Byrne on a tour of the fields and spoke with ...
Canola project still going strong on west coast
As Vanessa Kavanagh stood among a field of winter wheat in Pasadena on Monday she was taken back to two years ago when the field at Green Acres Farm was filled with canola. It was the first year of a project of the provincial government undertaken ...
Growing winter wheat proving beneficial to Humber Valley farmer
Wayne Simmons stood back from the group a bit on Monday and watched as the media event showcasing the field of winter wheat he’s grown in Pasadena unfolded around him. He laughed when he said he was just there to drive the tractor. But ...
PUB review before any Muskrat Falls talks with feds: premier
Liberal MPs and Liberal MHAs talk all the time, according to Premier Dwight Ball and MP Seamus O’Regan, including about Muskrat Falls. any formal talks between the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador and the federal government, about ...
Reality cheques: pay and play
When Jerry Heartz started working at the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown, he thought he’d only be there for one summer. But like other Islanders who worked at the centre, that one summer turned into a decades-long ...
St. Anthony Port Authority mulling options to potential problem
ST. ANTHONY, N.L. NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR CANADA There are questions about how cargo will be unloaded at St. Anthony if Eimskip moves away from using craned vessels. Eimskip is a company based in Iceland that ships product stored at St. ...
Trinity accommodator receives federal and provincial support for upgrades
TRINITY, N.L. NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR CANADA Rosewood Suites in Trinity has received some help from the federal and provincial governments for a project to modernize and expand its facilities. The business is receiving a $345,000 ...
