Local Lifestyles
Filling an important role: Newfoundland and Labrador non-profit organizations discuss the value of volunteers
Mark Hoffe Special to SaltWire In support of National Volunteer Week 2024, which runs April 14-20, Volunteer Canada recently released its campaign kit and rolled out the #NVW2024 and #EveryMomentMatters hashtags. The latter hashtag embodies this ...
JOAN SULLIVAN: New Gwynne Dyer book an eye-opening look at climate change
Intervention Earth: Life-Savings Ideas from the World’s Climate Engineers By Gwynne Dyer Random House Canada 352 pages, $36.95 When Gwynne Dyer published “Climate Wars” in 2008, the journalist and historian thought he was done with the subject. But ...
Sunny disposition: How to avoid and treat small dark spots on the skin called sunspots
Laura Churchill Duke Special to SaltWire Sunspots, small dark spots on the skin, that when they appear, can often cause a person to worry or at least wonder about them. Are they a reason for concern? Is it inevitable that we get them? Diane ...
BRUCE MACTAVISH: An Icelandic bird bonanza arrives in N.L. to the delight of birders
In the last column, I made a prediction. The forecasted weather maps showed 48 hours of strong northeast and east winds blowing direct from the Ireland and Iceland to southeast Labrador and the entire east coast of Newfoundland. I suggested not one ...
Exhausting experience: ‘It’s the anxiety of not knowing what will be a trigger that day,’ says Islander with epilepsy
Meghan Dewar Special to SaltWire Epilepsy, a brain disorder that causes seizures, has gained more public awareness in the past few years, but what is it really like to live with it? Carey Wood was diagnosed with epilepsy back in 1996 and has spent a ...
Tackling the invisible: Atlantic Canadians navigate gender roles and invisible labour
Meghan Dewar Special to SaltWire Dividing housework… it can be the one thing that makes or breaks a couple. Heather Boucher and her husband, Dennis, have strengthened their bond as a couple while navigating proper division of housework. The two ...
Carbonear's Got Talent: 20 Questions with Matthew Cooper
Matthew Cooper isn’t new to the stage, having competed in music competitions such as the Kiwanis Music Festival and being the inaugural winner of the Sing NL competition in 2017 but being a contestant on Canada’s Got Talent is a whole different ball ...
'It’s a marathon that should never stop': Terry Fox’s story still resonates 44 years later
When Terry Fox dipped his artificial leg into the Atlantic Ocean to begin his Marathon of Hope in St. John's 44 years ago, Fred Fox never thought that all these years later he’d still be sharing his brother’s story. “Not at all,” Fred said as he ...
'He definitely inspired me': Terry Fox's dream still alive for those in St. John's on Day One 44 years ago
Alasdair Veitch didn’t know who he was seeing when a young man jogged by with his now famous hop, jump and run stride on April 12, 1980. But he had a feeling that whoever he was, he was going to be big. “You could sense it was something special,” ...
Tiny dancers: Why these Atlantic Canadians are giving their all to learning forms of dance
Juanita Rossiter Special to SaltWire Whether it’s tiny ballerinas in their first lessons or a dedicated dancer who has been practising for 10 years, dance is beautiful to watch and is very much an art form itself. Lexi Fraser from Dartmouth, N.S. is ...