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The King Tide, directed by Christian Sparkes and filmed primarily in Keels, N.L. will be released this week.

LETTER: Keels was featured in 'The King Tide,' but community has important history in N.L.

Contributed |Updated May. 1, 2024 |3 min read Premium content

The movie 'The King Tide' is now showing in a theatre in St John's. It was filmed in Keels, Bonavista Bay, in 2022. Keels is about a 30-minute drive from Bonavista. Why Keels was chosen as the site for the film, I don't know. However, it has its own ...

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EDITORIAL: Teaching 'n' texting — a school cellphone ban needs to be accompanied by more education

SaltWire Network |Updated Apr. 30, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

The province of Ontario has just introduced the most restrictive ban on cellphone use in schools in the country. Yet, even that does not seem thorough enough to turn the tide on one of society’s greatest challenges in this age. Set to begin in ...

"Laser eye surgery – an operation lasting 22 seconds - completely disrupted my life," writes Bev Moore Davis of St. John's. - Amanda Dalbjorn/Unsplash

LETTER: How a failed laser eye surgery changed my life

Contributed |Updated Apr. 30, 2024 |3 min read Premium content

We have all seen the ads for laser eye surgery promoting 20/20 vision and a life liberated from glasses. While this may be true for many, it's not the reality for everyone. For me, Aug. 20, 2021, stands out as a day that I will never forget – it ...

Alberta's Premier Danielle Smith makes a keynote speech at the LNG 2023 energy conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada July 13, 2023.

LETTER: Worrisome actions by Alberta’s Premier Smith

Contributed |Updated Apr. 30, 2024 |3 min read Premium content

If anybody doubted the ‘otherness’ of the Province of Alberta, Premier Danielle Smith’s latest power grab may help to illustrate it. The dear lady has, since her election to the office of Premier, tried to sabotage the universal effort to fight ...

Justice Minister John Hogan. -Juanita Mercer/The Telegram

LETTER: Apply logic to discussion around retraumatizing victims

Contributed |Updated Apr. 30, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

The furor over Justice Minister John Hogan’s saying it was impossible for a lawyer to re-traumatize a complainant in the trial of someone she had accused of sexual assault reminded me of something the late Chief Justice Robert Furlong of the Supreme ...

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

Cheers and Jeers for Newfoundland and Labrador April 30

SaltWire Staff |Updated Apr. 30, 2024 |5 min read Premium content

JEERS: to speeding, particularly in construction zones. Recently, among those caught for speeding by police were two drivers zooming through construction zones on the west coast of Newfoundland. A 26-year-old Corner Brook man was ticketed after he ...

A handout photograph, shot in January 2024, shows a woman and baby at the Zamzam displacement camp, close to El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan. Some 800,000 people in a Sudanese city are in "extreme and immediate danger" as worsening violence advances and threatens to "unleash bloody intercommunal strife throughout Darfur," top U.N. officials warned the Security Council last week. - MSF/Mohamed Zakaria/Handout via REUTERS

GWYNNE DYER: A look at the whys and hows of the wars in Africa

Gwynne Dyer · Columnist |Updated Apr. 29, 2024 |6 min read Premium content

“We could see an all-out war between all the tribes and that is really the doomsday scenario. At this point, it’s not unrealistic,” the head of an international non-government organization that is working in Sudan told the Al Jazeera news agency last ...

More housing has been announced for doctors, nurses and other health-care practitioners in Guysborough and Port Hawkesbury.

LETTER: N.L. needs to become faster at licensing international doctors

Contributed |Updated Apr. 29, 2024 |2 min read Premium content

I’ve been fortunate to have spent a career in the Air Force and travelled all over the world. Of course, being sick or having accidents didn’t just happen back home in Canada, so I’ve experienced the health-care systems in many of those countries. In ...

Type 1 diabetes is a demanding chronic illness that requires people who have it to monitor their health every day. Unsplash+ photo

LETTER: Diabetic supplies should be free for everyone who needs them

Contributed |Updated Apr. 29, 2024 |1 min read Premium content

I am not a diabetic, but I know some of you are. My late brother, Doug, had diabetes, and insulin, diabetes meds, devices, and supplies are medically required for all diabetics, including those uninsured! This is one of many reasons why I have ...

Apr 27, 2024; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Yusei Kikuchi (16) pitches to the Los Angeles Dodgers during the second inning at Rogers Centre. Mandatory Credit: John E. Sokolowski-USA TODAY Sports

LETTER: Toronto sports teams are a disaster

Contributed |Updated Apr. 29, 2024 |2 min read Premium content

Toronto sports teams are a disaster! While the Raptors deserve the opportunity to rebuild, not so for the Blow Jays and the Leaves! Hey, Blue Jays, BUNT! Or, at the very least, stop trying to see how far you can hit the ball outside the ball park in ...

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