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Supreme Court of Canada to hear travel ban appeal of Newfoundlander

SaltWire Network |Updated 3 hours ago |2 min read Premium content

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 ...

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A school of Mackerel, feed along the waterfront in Halifax Monday September 18, 2017.

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Mackerel bait fishery opening in Atlantic Canada ‘a slap in the face,’ says Newfoundland and Labrador harvesters’ union

Gary Kean |Updated 13 hours ago |4 min read Premium content

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 ...

Retired hockey broadcaster Bob Cole.

Hockey broadcast legend Bob Cole dead at age 90

Lance Hornby · Postmedia News |Updated 19 hours ago |1 min read Premium content

Bob Cole, an iconic voice of Hockey Night In Canada , has died at age 90. The man who called so many huge games on radio and then television, from the 1972 Canada-Russia series, to Red Army versus the Philadelphia Flyers, to Stanley Cup wins by ...

A 26-year-old man is facing drug trafficking charges after he fled from police but was eventually caught on Sunday night outside Halifax.

Newfoundland woman banned from driving picks up new charges after speeding from Bonavista RCMP

Atlantic Briefs Desk |Updated 23 hours ago |2 min read Premium content

A 23-year-old woman is facing several charges after allegedly speeding away from police while prohibited from driving in Bonavista on April 22. Mounties received reports of a prohibited driver on the road along Route 230 near Melrose and located the ...

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A school of Mackerel, feed along the waterfront in Halifax Monday September 18, 2017.

Tim Krochak/The Chronicle Herald

DFO opening mackerel bait fishery for Atlantic Canada and Quebec, but commercial fishery remains closed

Gary Kean |Updated 22 hours ago |3 min read Premium content

The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans has announced the opening of a mackerel bait fishery for Atlantic Canada and Quebec. The 470-tonne personal-use bait fishery will open this spring, but the Atlantic mackerel commercial fishery in ...

The main entrance to the new Western Memorial Regional Hospital in Corner Brook. – Diane Crocker/SaltWire file photo

Teams preparing for moving day at new Western Memorial Regional Hospital

Diane Crocker · Multimedia Journalist |Updated a day ago |7 min read Premium content

With just over a month to go, Hilda Bellows said there are a lot of things happening at the new Western Memorial Regional Hospital to get ready to welcome patients and the public on June 2. Bellows, who is NL Health Services – Western Zone’s project ...

"Michelle" is desperate to help her almost 16 year old son who's life has changed because of addiction.

Keith Gosse/The Telegram

From a little boy 'succeeding with everything he did' to an addict: N.L. mom desperate to get help for her son

Jenna Head |Updated a day ago |13 min read Premium content

Michelle is desperate to help her almost 16-year-old son recover from addictions. "My son, he can't go to school. He's overdosing once every two weeks these days, and some weeks they're closer together," she said. The Telegram is allowing "Michelle" ...

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Mount Pearl lawyer Andrew J. Martin disbarred after lying to client, creating fake email to remove himself from file

Tara Bradbury · Reporter |Updated a day ago |3 min read Premium content

Mount Pearl lawyer Andrew J. Martin has been disbarred for engaging in what the province’s law society calls a “web of deceit” involving lying to a client and creating a fake email to try to get himself off the file. An ajudication panel of the Law ...

Jack Whalen and his wife, Glennis Whalen, stand outside the replica isolation cell Jack built and brought to Confederation Building in St. John's, Monday, June 12, 2023. TARA BRADBURY • THE TELEGRAM

Man from N.L. glad to hear of Limitations Act amendments

Tara Bradbury · Reporter |Updated a day ago |6 min read Premium content

Jack Whalen made a Facebook post this week that was short, sweet and, for him, a long time coming. “Thank you to everyone who had a part in making this happen,” he wrote. “I am so excited. God bless you.” Whalen, 64, spent last week in the gallery at ...

Housing Minister Fred Hutton speaks with reporters after question period on Wednesday. -Juanita Mercer/The Telegram

Hutton says tent city protesters impeding help ‘to keep the protest going’

Juanita Mercer · Multi-media journalist |Updated a day ago |4 min read Premium content

Fred Hutton said protesters involved with the Colonial Building tent encampment are impeding offers of help for people living in tents because protesters want "to keep the protest going.” “I would never presume to say that there's not a housing ...

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