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• Lost in a loophole
  Jerome Lawlor of Paradise is an injured worker who's received special authorization from the workers' compensation commission to have more ...
• Massage therapists upset with restrictions
  Massage therapists in the province are upset over recent restrictions implemented by the Workplace Health Safety and Compensation Commission ...
• MP says EI claimants upset with long delays
  Recent job cuts at Service Canada’s call centre in Pleasantville are being blamed for creating long delays in the processing of employment ...
• Some CBC viewers cut off
  In Dire Straits’ popular “Money for Nothing” song, the band sings, “I want my MTV.” Since the switch from analog to digital TV this year, some ...
• OxyContin to be discontinued
  The Newfoundland government can’t say yet whether the province’s prescription drug program will cover a new drug, OxyNEO, expected to be marketed ...
• Family says brain injury support lacking
  The family of a 50-year-old man from the Southern Shore who sustained a brain injury from a serious fall earlier this year, are speaking out ...
• New office tower design unveiled
  “Out of the ashes” could aptly describe a new six-storey office tower, estimated to cost more than $50 million, proposed for 351 Water St. in ...
• Province to be part of major cancer study
  A major recruitment campaign is underway in Newfoundland for participation in what's said to be the largest national cancer research study of ...
• Campaign calls for transparency
  Canada gives about $5 billion in foreign aid annually, but there’s growing concern internationally that a lot of that money doesn’t go to the ...
• Campaigning for foreign aid transparency
  The local chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Canada is participating in a campaign today to generate support for greater foreign aid ...
• Woman claims garbage truck damaged her car, but city...
  Rhonda Webb, a single-parent living in the east end of St. John’s, says the city isn’t being fair in its response to damage caused to her car by ...
• Warmer winter predicted for N.L.
  This winter could be one of the coldest in 20 years in Western Canada, but Newfoundland and Labrador is expected to see above-normal ...
• Happier than ever
  When Toni-Marie Wiseman, a reporter and anchor with NTV News in St. John’s, became pregnant in late 2009, she was so surprised she almost didn’t ...
• Police investigating assault on teenage girl
  A St. John’s grandmother says she can’t bear to think what could have happened to her 14-year-old granddaughter recently if she hadn’t been able ...
• Grief-stricken mom speaks out
  Less than a week after her daughter’s death, a St. John’s woman is speaking out about their treatment by Child Youth and Family Services. Maryann ...
• Sobeys launches seafood tracking system
  Consumers who like to know more about where their food comes from can now get a wealth of information about seafood they purchase from Sobeys ...
• N.L. surgeon takes CMA reins
  After taking over as president of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) Wednesday, Dr. John Haggie, a central Newfoundland surgeon, told ...
• NL surgeon assumes CMA presidency
  Although the 2004 national health accord was intended to secure change for a generation, it has failed to do more than fix funding for a decade, ...
• Minister emphasizes accountability
  Federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq says Ottawa will work with the provinces and territories to renew the country’s health accord by 2014, but ...
• CMA should be open to discussing options of...
  An advisory panel is recommending that the Canadian Medical Association should be open to discussing a range of ways to fund health care, ...
• N.L. athlete inspired Rick Hansen
  When Rick Hansen brought his Man in Motion tour to Newfoundland in 1986, local athlete Mel Fitzgerald was at his side, supporting him and ...
• Eastern Health team back from Port-au-Prince
  When a group of 27 health professionals from Eastern Health met at St. John’s Airport in July before travelling to Haiti, many of them had never ...
• Alpaca crafts in high demand
  Thirteen years ago, when Ed Hutchings and Cathy Whitehead decided to start an alpaca farm in Felix Cove on the Port au Port Peninsula, they ...
• Sandy Pond fish to be relocated soon
  Vale intends to proceed this year with its compensation plan for Sandy Pond, which includes moving fish from the pond to a new habitat, but the ...
• Keeping your hands clean?
  Visitor restrictions are commonly announced at health-care facilities to curb outbreaks of respiratory or gastrointestinal illness.It’s a problem ...
• Mother continues road safety crusade
  Jeannette Holman-Price isn’t surprised thousands of people have been hospitalized in Newfoundland and Labrador over the past decade for injuries ...
• ‘Prison isn’t a hospital,’ investigator says
  Recently, in provincial court in St. John’s, two men charged with unrelated sex offences appeared in separate court rooms asking for sentences of ...
• Health professionals bound for Haiti
  St. John’s orthopedic surgeon Dr. Andrew Furey is looking forward to taking some vacation days in July, but he won’t be relaxing on a beach down ...
• Foraging for safer practices
  In a huge field off Brookfield Road in St. John’s, tall blades of brome grass wave gently in the breeze, brushing against leafy, aromatic alfalfa ...
• Iceberg alley influx
  A huge floating island of ice that broke off the Petermann Glacier near Greenland last August could add some excitement this summer during ...