A new report has found Newfoundland and Labrador has the second-largest pay equity gap in Canada. The NDP is calling on the provincial government to strengthen pay equity legislation, raise the minimum wage, and invest more in child care and home care services. NTV’s Bailey Howard has the story.
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The Department of Forestry, Agriculture and Lands is currently monitoring two active fires in Labrador West. The fire at Emerillon Lake South is 8 hectares and classified as Under Control. Aircraft and ground crew are on site but no further spread is expected. The fire at Oreway is currently estimated at 470 hectares and classified […]
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Bay St. George RCMP issued fines under the and seized a vehicle after a hit and run collision Wednesday afternoon in Stephenville. At approximately 1:30 p.m. on June 25, Bay St. George RCMP received a report of a hit and run on Hillview Avenue in Stephenville. Police attended the scene and learned than a recreational vehicle had struck […]
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The Department of Forestry, Agriculture and Lands is working with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, industry stakeholders and citizen scientists to monitor detections of Japanese beetle in the City of St. John’s. The department has contracted a landscaping company to carry out larvicide treatments starting the week of Monday, June 29. Treatments will take place […]
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Two men, aged 41 and 22, were arrested by Sheshatshiu RCMP Thursday morning in relation to an assault with a weapon. At approximately 10:07 a.m. on June 25, police responded to reports of an assault in progress on McKenzie Drive in Sheshatshiu. Witnesses told police that two men were assaulting another person with a hockey […]
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