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• MP blasts Burke’s office for cold shoulder
  St. John’s South-Mount Pearl MP Ryan Cleary says he’s had to resort to filing an access to information request for answers to help a constituent ...
• Standard of care in prisons not acceptable: advocate
  The peer report on services provided by Dr. David Craig may have concluded he meets the standard of care for psychiatrists working in Canada’s ...
• CF drug would lower hospitalizations, pharmacist says
  Approval of a drug for cystic fibrosis (CF) patients would benefit them and cut hospital admissions, says a pharmacist who specializes in the ...
• Mom says school officials discouraged son’s use of...
  The mother of a Beachy Cove Elementary student who uses American sign language says education officials pushed her son to instead use an ...
• Residential schools stole my childhood: former student
  From the time he was three, Toby Obed desperately wanted to go home. But by the time he got there his parents were deceased and he had to relearn ...
• Researchers uncover mutant gene
  When postdoctoral research fellow Nancy Merner began work a few years ago at the Research Centre Guy Rouleau Laboratory in Montreal, she was ...
• Bell Islanders reeling after rampage
  Victims of a Thursday afternoon melee on Bell Island were calling Friday for two local men accused of assaults and damaging property to be banned ...
• Newfoundlander wins at national music festival
  Newfoundlander Steve Cowan took home the Grand Award at the recent National Music Festival in Fort McMurray, Alta.Cowan said it’s the first time ...
• Family caught in housing crunch
  When apprentice electrician Jason Dyke moved to St. John’s in April with his pregnant spouse, Lisa Collins, he thought he’d be able to save money ...
• Thirsty much?
  It was a good year to introduce a summer seasonal beer. Quidi Vidi rolled out a new summer brew this year - Continental Pilsner - and what a ...
• Trying to numb the pain
  Last in a three-part series Derrick Stanley said he was so disturbed by memories brought forward by the film “The Boys of St. Vincent,” that he ...
• Bitter legacy: How Mount Cashel survivors are living...
  At his dining room table, a retired teacher describes how he's spent a lifetime keeping the abuse at Mount Cashel from shredding his world. It's ...
• Picking up the pieces
  First in a three-part series. For some, it might seem a small thing — being declined funding to work out at his gym of choice to combat ...
• Caught in the housing crunch
  On his birthday this week, David Perry hauls out a box of newspapers he’s saved from his frustrating apartment hunt.Perry, 54, was supposed to be ...
• Spend more on bridges, roads: NDP
  A special report on the province’s bridge inspections was searing and shows the Tory government has failed to divert enough monies to the roadway ...
• Minister says bridges safe, despite poor condition...
  The Sir Robert Bond bridge underwent rehab work in 2010, but two years later it remains rated in overall poor condition, and repairs are ...
• Inspection reports detail the state of the...
  At last inspection, the majority of the province’s bridges were in fair or poor condition. And more of them were in poor condition than good ...
• Placentia mayor unhappy with bridge repair timeline
  Repairs on a weakened lift bridge in Placentia are not going to be finished until late July or early August, says the town’s mayor. Bill Hogan ...
• Evoking smiles
  There’s something about artist Nina Keogh’s past that lights up the faces of people of certain ages. Keogh, a third-generation puppeteer, was ...
• Review methadone program, keep drug off street, user...
  The death of Jeffrey Payne is an alarm that the methadone program needs a re-examination to keep it off the street, says St. John’s musician ...
• Mom says methadone killed her son
  Mary Payne’s small living room is filled with mementoes of her son. Among them, a hockey glove, a ball cap signed by NHL player Danny Cleary, a ...
• Trips vital to finding new products: NLC CEO
  Newfoundland Labrador Liquor Corp. (NLC) head Steve Winter's travel log may look glamourous, but he views it as just essential business. Even if ...
• It’s a Labrador wolf: DNA tests
  Long-anticipated DNA tests have confirmed the 82-pound animal shot on the Bonavista Peninsula is indeed a Labrador wolf. That’s the conclusion of ...
• Avalon Dragon members win in Israel
  Around 2006, Nancy Bennett reluctantly attended her first meeting of the Avalon Dragons. Now she’s hoping others will make that move and discover ...
• Buyer beware on natural food, says consumer
  Ship Cove, Placentia Bay — Up a rough cut road, meadows divided by forest shelter are empty — the inhabitants have taken cover on a cool spring ...
• Waiting on the weather
  Heading up to Signal Hill this week and staring out at the North Atlantic offered a stark dose of reality, but two British rowers are not daunted ...
• British rowers looking for support vessel to go as...
  British rowers who will depart St. John’s in an attempt to row 2,587 miles across the North Atlantic in time for the Olympic Games in London, are ...
• ‘I’m afraid I’m going to be next’
  As if grieving over Chrissy Pearce’s death wasn’t enough anguish, a St. John’s family has been pleading for help for her drug-addicted ...
• 'She couldn't get the help she needed'
  Chrissy Pearce cried out for help and should not have died, says St. John's South-Mount Pearl NDP MP Ryan Cleary. "She is dead, dead because she ...
• 'Booze had her by the throat'
  Chrissy Pearce was stunningly beautiful. Tall, blond hair, blue eyes, a magnetic smile. The kind of woman a stranger might glance at and think ...