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Another spring day in St. John’s. Cabot Tower looms out of the fog on a windy, wet Signal Hill, April 30, 2024. — Pam Frampton

PAM FRAMPTON: Wake me up when spring comes

“The day is cold, and dark, and dreary It rains, and the wind is never weary…” From “The Rainy Day” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The evergreens across the road have been rendered into shadowy versions of themselves by a bank of low fog that’s ...

Updated May. 2, 2024 |5 min read

GWYNNE DYER: 'The second time as farce' – is history repeating itself?

Updated May. 2, 2024 |6 min read

Heinrich XIII (C), who goes under the title Prince Reuss of Greiz, is led by police officers to a police vehicle after arresting him while searching a house as part of a raid aginst so-called "Reich citizens". Nine alleged members of a far-right extremist group accused of plotting to overthrow the German government went on trial in Stuttgart April 29. - Boris Roessler/dpa via Reuters

COMMENTARY: Newfoundland and Labrador’s population is growing fast and homebuilding isn’t keeping up

Updated May. 2, 2024 |3 min read

Provincial and federal government officials announced the opening of eight new affordable housing units on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. (Jenna Head/ The Telegram)

LETTER: N.L. government isn't representing the interests of the people and nature with approval of hydrogen projects

Updated May. 2, 2024 |5 min read

LETTER: Keels was featured in 'The King Tide,' but community has important history in N.L.

Updated May. 1, 2024 |3 min read

LETTER: How a failed laser eye surgery changed my life

Updated Apr. 30, 2024 |3 min read

Featured Local Perspectives

Lude Meng, a temporary foreign worker in Prince Edward Island, says her dream of relocating to the Island permanently was put in jeopardy after she made a complaint about sexual harassment in the workplace and was abruptly laid off. Meng shares her story in a three-part series for SaltWire. Thinh Nguyen • The Guardian

EDITORIAL: Temporary foreign workers are critical to Atlantic Canada and deserve supports

Like Atlantic Canadian labourers who migrate for jobs in western Canada for months at a time, when Lude Meng left her home in China to work in a Prince Edward Island fish plant, she did so to build a better life for her family. Instead, she faced a ...

Updated a day ago |5 min read

COMMENTARY: Canada has an investment problem — and Fogo Island, N.L., has a solution

Updated May. 2, 2024 |5 min read

Fogo Island Inn was created by charitable organization Shorefast as means to invest in the development of the natural and cultural assets that exist in the place. Contributed

COMMENTARY: Newfoundland and Labrador’s population is growing fast and homebuilding isn’t keeping up

Updated May. 2, 2024 |3 min read

LETTER: N.L. government isn't representing the interests of the people and nature with approval of hydrogen projects

Updated May. 2, 2024 |5 min read

PAM FRAMPTON: Wake me up when spring comes

Updated May. 2, 2024 |5 min read

GWYNNE DYER: 'The second time as farce' – is history repeating itself?

Updated May. 2, 2024 |6 min read

Featured National Perspectives

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomes Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau upon his arrival at Bharat Mandapam convention center for the G20 Summit, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. Evan Vucci/Pool via

John Ivison: India is too important for cheap Liberal domestic politics

With friends like Canada, who needs enemies? That appears to be the thinking of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. Justin Trudeau seems to feel the same way. The two men have doubled down on a cycle of recrimination that has poisoned relations in ...

Updated May. 1, 2024 |6 min read

SCOTT TAYLOR: Does Canada really need F-35 fighters?

Updated Apr. 30, 2024 |3 min read

Two U.S. Air Force F-35 Lightning II aircraft arrive at Amari Air Base, Estonia, in 2022. With the war in Ukraine showing how conflict has evolved, it begs the question of whether Canada needs to buy 88 of the fighters.
- U.S. Air Force/Handout via REUTERS/File

SCOTT TAYLOR: Canada's military procurement history a laundry list of broken promises

Updated Apr. 22, 2024 |4 min read

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A man and his pyjama clad children, check out one of 3 Canadian Armed Forces crew and their LAV, on Mount Pleasant Avenue in Dartmouth Monday September September 9, 2019. The crew were members of the the 4th engineer support group from Gagetown.

TIM KROCHAK/ The Chronicle Herald

Opinion: Canada’s Arctic defence policy update is all flash, no bang

Updated Apr. 17, 2024 |5 min read

SCOTT TAYLOR: Believe it when you see it for CAF spending

Updated Apr. 15, 2024 |3 min read

FIRST READING: It turns out Canadian police can actually stop a protest blockade if they feel like it

Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |7 min read

Featured Editorial Cartoons

BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: Ready, aim, pace yourself

Bruce MacKinnon's cartoon for May 4, 2024.

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BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: Fine day for a nap

Updated May. 2, 2024 |1 min read

BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: Citadel of learning

Updated May. 1, 2024 |1 min read

BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: ‘Awaiting your reply’

Updated Apr. 30, 2024 |1 min read

MICHAEL de ADDER CARTOON: The train keeps a-rollin’

Updated Apr. 29, 2024 |1 min read

BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: Please play again

Updated Apr. 26, 2024 |1 min read

Featured Regional Perspectives

Teachers in Nova Scotia will hold a strike vote on April 11. Nova Scotia Teachers Union president Ryan Lutes said teachers hope job action won’t be necessary. STOCK IMAGE

PERSPECTIVE: Want to fix student absence rates? Reduce illness in schools

By Susan Joudrey If you think that children are missing more school due to illness than they did before the pandemic began, you’re not imagining things. If you suspect constant illness is affecting their education, you’re not wrong. Documents ...

Updated a day ago |7 min read

GAIL LETHBRIDGE: Poilievre talking points constantly cross decorum line

Updated a day ago |3 min read

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks as Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre listens during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada September 18, 2023.

JOHN DeMONT: Getting kids off screens will make them happier — here’s how

Updated a day ago |5 min read

Research suggests all the time kids spend on screens and social media contributes to anxiety. - Unsplash

LETTER: New Cape Breton central library project needs public’s support

Updated a day ago |2 min read

COMMENTARY: Why didn't N.S. mental health system recognize the signs of our Aidaen's distress?

Updated a day ago |10 min read

CHEERS AND JEERS: Cheers to those working to ensure safety of temporary foreign workers

Updated May. 2, 2024 |5 min read

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Opinion

PAM FRAMPTON: Wake me up when spring comes

GWYNNE DYER: 'The second time as farce' – is history repeating itself?

COMMENTARY: Newfoundland and Labrador’s population is growing fast and homebuilding isn’t keeping up

LETTER: N.L. government isn't representing the interests of the people and nature with approval of hydrogen projects

LETTER: Keels was featured in 'The King Tide,' but community has important history in N.L.

LETTER: How a failed laser eye surgery changed my life

Featured Local Perspectives

EDITORIAL: Temporary foreign workers are critical to Atlantic Canada and deserve supports

COMMENTARY: Canada has an investment problem — and Fogo Island, N.L., has a solution

COMMENTARY: Newfoundland and Labrador’s population is growing fast and homebuilding isn’t keeping up

LETTER: N.L. government isn't representing the interests of the people and nature with approval of hydrogen projects

PAM FRAMPTON: Wake me up when spring comes

GWYNNE DYER: 'The second time as farce' – is history repeating itself?

Featured National Perspectives

John Ivison: India is too important for cheap Liberal domestic politics

SCOTT TAYLOR: Does Canada really need F-35 fighters?

SCOTT TAYLOR: Canada's military procurement history a laundry list of broken promises

Opinion: Canada’s Arctic defence policy update is all flash, no bang

SCOTT TAYLOR: Believe it when you see it for CAF spending

FIRST READING: It turns out Canadian police can actually stop a protest blockade if they feel like it

Featured Editorial Cartoons

BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: Ready, aim, pace yourself

BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: Fine day for a nap

BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: Citadel of learning

BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: ‘Awaiting your reply’

MICHAEL de ADDER CARTOON: The train keeps a-rollin’

BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: Please play again

Featured Regional Perspectives

PERSPECTIVE: Want to fix student absence rates? Reduce illness in schools

GAIL LETHBRIDGE: Poilievre talking points constantly cross decorum line

JOHN DeMONT: Getting kids off screens will make them happier — here’s how

LETTER: New Cape Breton central library project needs public’s support

COMMENTARY: Why didn't N.S. mental health system recognize the signs of our Aidaen's distress?

CHEERS AND JEERS: Cheers to those working to ensure safety of temporary foreign workers

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