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Remembering War
by GREG LOCKE Originally published November 11, 2016 ST JOHN’S, Newfoundland – I can’t do Remembrance Day anymore. Just don’t have it in me. I don’t mean it to be disrespectful. In fact, my respect is infinite. I have had relatives serve, live and die in the Canadian, British and American military going back to WWI. I’ve attended the National War Memorial in St John’s, Newfoundland with my father-in-law, a veteran of the Battle of Altona in Italy during WWII, and the rest of the old men many times. I have talked about war far too many times. Today
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by Deborah Jones (originally published November 11, 2020) VANCOUVER, BC – Remembrance in COVID Time. Cenotaphs closed. Veterans cloistered. Citizens warned to stay away, safe from the pandemic. It’s a day off work in many places, but with so many now working from home, who would notice any difference? On this day, most years, we’d stand shivering to witness sober parades and ceremonies. Today at 11 a.m., we go outside our front door. We cock our ears for the strains of a bugle or bagpipes. We scan the sky for the old war planes on their annual fly-over. We
What next? …after Canada’s Day of Truth and Reconciliation
VANCOUVER, B.C. – Canada’s first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation saw a national outpouring of grief and anger over indigenous residential schools, and the genocide of Canada’s aboriginal peoples. Now that the day’s drums are stilled, the joined voices of lament silenced, the symbolic orange shirts doffed, flames of sacred fires become ember, what? What comes next? The answer is deceptively simple: Canadians follow the path mapped by the 2015 final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. The commission was tasked with telling hard “truths” – and the near-impossible goal of “reconciling” Canada’s century-long removal of
Bonavista Biennale beckons
BONAVISTA, Newfoundland – While there are massive music concerts and arts festivals all over the world, usually in urban areas, that attract thousands of people, often those in remote and out-of-the-way places offer a more engaging and immersive experience. The Bonavista Biennale is one of those. As the name says, it’s located in and around Bonavista, Newfoundland. A small town three-hours drive from the capital of St John’s, Bonavista sits on the remote tip of a peninsula in Canada’s easternmost province, face up to the North Atlantic ocean. This biennial exhibition of contemporary visual art attracts local, national, and international
Innu file suit as human rights report slams Canada for abuse
NATUASHISH, LABRADOR August 12, 2021 – Days after a human rights report slammed Canada for its treatment of the Innu, the Innu Nation sued the federal and provincial governments over the Muskrat Falls energy project affecting their ancestral lands. The suit, filed in Newfoundland Supreme Court, names the provincial and federal governments, and was triggered by a joint government deal in which the Innu lost previously-negotiated benefits from the Muskrat Falls hydro project near Happy Valley, Labrador. The Innu only found out about the changes via news media, after the deal was announced. Earlier this week a scathing new Canadian
Suncor may abandon Terra Nova offshore oil field
St. John’s, Newfoundland (May 27, 2021) – Calgary based Suncor Energy, lead operator of the Terra Nova offshore oil field on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, says it will most likely be abandoning the oil field if it cannot come to an agreement with its seven partners. Mark Little, the CEO of Suncor, told investors on Wednesday that the floating production platform will be decommissioned if an agreement is not found.
The terrifying mathematics of the Anthropocene
By Owen Gaffney and Will Steffen, February, 2017 Here are some surprising facts about humans’ effect on planet Earth. We have made enough concrete to create an exact replica of Earth 2mm thick. We have produced enough plastic to wrap Earth in clingfilm. We are creating “technofossils”, a new term for congealed human-made materials – plastics and concretes – that will be around for tens of millions of years. But it is the scale that humans have altered Earth’s life support system that is the most concerning. In 2000, Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer proposed that human impact on the
Liberal’s lose poll lead in election 2021 gamble
OTTAWA – When Justin Trudeau called the federal election 2021 on August the 15th, with still two years left in his mandate, the federal Liberal party had a nearly 10-point lead over the Conservative party. He took a gamble that the public would look positively on this government’s Covid-19 response, and that the Delta variant fourth wave would not emerge. With the popularity of the Conservatives then at a low point, and internal division emerging around party leader Erin O’Toole, there were Liberal hopes of getting a majority government and not having to negotiate with the NDP or Bloc
Politics
OTTAWA – When Justin Trudeau called the federal election 2021 on August the 15th, with still two years left in his mandate, the federal Liberal party had a nearly 10-point lead over the Conservative party. He took a gamble that the public would look positively on this government’s Covid-19 response, and that the Delta variant fourth wave would not
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NATUASHISH, LABRADOR August 12, 2021 – Days after a human rights report
NATUASHISH, Newfoundland and Labrador – The Innu National is again being ignored
DEBORAH JONES November 12, 2005 Michael Walker’s desk in his new office
DEBORAH JONES: FREE RANGE July 02, 1988 Halifax, NS, Canada — In
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St. John’s, Newfoundland (May 27, 2021) – Calgary based Suncor Energy, lead operator of the Terra Nova offshore oil field on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, says it will most likely be abandoning the oil field if it cannot come to an agreement with its seven partners. Mark Little, the CEO of Suncor, told investors on Wednesday that the floating
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DEBORAH JONES November 12, 2005 Michael Walker’s desk in his new office
ROGER BILL November 25, 2017 ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland — The man in charge
By Ross Kerber May, 2017 BOSTON (Reuters) – After U.S. President Donald
The Arts
BONAVISTA, Newfoundland – While there are massive music concerts and arts festivals all over the world, usually in urban areas, that attract thousands of people, often those in remote and out-of-the-way places offer a more engaging and immersive experience. The
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By Brian Brennan March, 2018 “Meet acclaimed Canadian authors in San Miguel!” said the invitation. How could one resist? According to the program, three of the seven keynote speakers at this year’s Writers’ Conference & Literary Festival in San Miguel de
DEBORAH JONES: FREE RANGE July, 2005 The very first time he tried writing graffiti, Robbie,
People
VANCOUVER, B.C. – Canada’s first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation saw a national outpouring of grief and anger over indigenous residential schools, and the genocide of Canada’s aboriginal peoples. Now that the day’s drums are stilled, the joined voices of lament silenced, the symbolic orange shirts doffed, flames of sacred fires become ember, what? What comes next? The answer
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DEBORAH JONES: FREE RANGE July, 2005 The very first time he tried
DEBORAH JONES: FREE RANGE July 02, 1988 Halifax, NS, Canada — In