Premier Andrew Furey will make a pre-budget announcement related to well-being and sport this afternoon at 2:00 p.m. at the PowerPlex in St. John’s. Furey will be joined at the announcement by the Tourism, Culture, Arts and Recreation Minister Steve Crocker, Dr. Patrick Parfrey, Deputy Minister of Health Transformation, and Executive Director of the NL […]
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The 2024 Mel Woodward Cup will take place tomorrow from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at Memorial University’s Emera Innovation Exchange at the Signal Hill Campus. The eighth annual pitch competition awards a top prize of $25,000 and a runner-up prize of $15,000 to the most innovative and high-potential student-led startups at Memorial University. There […]
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NAPE members protested in front of the Confederation Building this morning, saying the province’s public highways and public services are not for sale. NAPE President Jerry Earle says, government has indicated that they intend to use the P3 (public private partnership) model to design, build, finance, and maintain new highways. The province has also stated […]
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The Nunatsiavut Government and the Government of Canada are working to establish a new protected area in Labrador that will conserve more than 16,700 square kilometres of the Labrador Shelf Marine Region. The feasibility assessment has been completed and deemed the establishment of a new Inuit Protected Area in northern Labrador as both feasible and […]
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This morning NAPE members are bringing their anti-privatization message to the Confederation Building a day before the provincial budget is tabled. The government has indicated that they intend to use the P3 model to design, build, finance, and maintain new highways. Private contractors will do all maintenance of any new sections of road built under […]
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Last Friday the St. Anthony and Area Chamber of Commerce held its Annual General Meeting and presented the annual business awards. There were six recipients at the second Annual Business Awards. Awards include the Big Dreamer Award, Community Impact Award, Outstanding Employee Award, New Business of the Year Award, Business Excellence Award, and Chamber’s Choice […]
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A couple of areas of low pressure are going to “bother” the Province with some unsettled weather today. We have our main low swirling north of the Island and a secondary low about to pass east of the Avalon Peninsula. Between these two, we can expect areas of showers, flurries and even some snow across […]
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Roads are bare on the Avalon Peninsula, Burin Peninsula, and most of central. There are a few snow-covered sections on the northeast coast and west coast. On the Great Northern Peninsula, roads are snow-covered with icy and slushy patches. In Labrador, roads are snow-covered with icy patches and good visibility. Marine Atlantic and provincial ferries […]
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Today the Innu Nation, the Nunatsiavut Government and Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami will voice concerns about the threat of non-Indigenous groups who wrongly seek to adopt Indigenous identities for themselves. This week the Innu Nation is challenging a memorandum of understanding signed between the federal government and the NunatuKavut Community Council NCC in 2019 in court.
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On Monday morning the RNC was called to a report of an unwelcome person in the Goulds area. At the residence, officers learned that the resident was requesting assistance with an emergency protection order due to an ongoing problem in the home. During the investigation, officers learned that the 43-year-old male never had a proper […]
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