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‘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 ...
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 ...
UPDATED: Thanks for the memories, Bob: Newfoundland hockey broadcaster Bob Cole has died at age 90
“Here, we go on a Saturday night.” Bob Cole, the voice of a generation of hockey fans, died Wednesday in St. John's at age 90. On Saturday nights, those fans would listen and watch as the boy from Topsail narrated their favourite teams playing their ...
Hockey broadcast legend Bob Cole dead at age 90
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 ...
Newfoundland woman banned from driving picks up new charges after speeding from Bonavista RCMP
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 ...
DFO opening mackerel bait fishery for Atlantic Canada and Quebec, but commercial fishery remains closed
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 ...
Teams preparing for moving day at new Western Memorial Regional Hospital
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 ...