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Challenges and successes for new Canadians

Focus on opening doors drives immigration aid groups

Immigration Program "a model that could be extended to … the country"

'If this region is going to survive and prosper, immigration is ...

McNEISH: 'We are now a global community'

Younger doctors exhausted by new practice demands

Tara Kinch, a community support worker at Chebucto Connections, talks with client Steven Falshaw on Jan. 24.

Fighting to find a family doctor: ‘The whole process is undignified.’

Doctor shortage

What we learned, what you said about doctor shortage in Atlantic Canada

Challenges, solutions to Atlantic Canada's doctor shortage

Family doctor shortage a threat to health care

One man has died following a single-vehicle collision just north of Torbay late Sunday night. Keith Gosse/The Telegram

RNC UPDATE: 20-year-old man dead after single-vehicle crash near Pouch Cove late Sunday night

Updated 12 hours ago

A pickup driver had his license suspended and at least four people were taken to hospital following a Saturday noon-hour collision in St. John's. Keith Gosse/The Telegram

Four sent to hospital, pickup driver gets license suspended following collision in Mount Pearl

Updated a day ago

Eddie Joyce, the indepenent MHA for Humber-Bay of Islands, was a happy camper after being one of the first candidates to be declared elected in Thursday's provincial election.

EDITORIAL: Reckoning time in Newfoundland and Labrador

Published May 18, 2019 at 6 a.m.

Lord Conrad Black in March 2018. - Jim Wells/Postmedia

REX MURPHY: What Donald Trump would like in a man like Conrad Black

Updated May 17, 2019 at 4:11 p.m.

News

From left, Judith Holloway, Frank Pike and Pike’s daughter, Vicki Colbourne, unveil the engraved stone Monday for Frank’s oldest brother, Walter Kitchener Pike — a gunner with the Royal Artillery, 59 (Newfoundland) Heavy Regiment in the Second World War — who died in England in 1941.

Stone commemorates Newfoundland soldier buried in U.K.

Published 6 hours ago

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Malawians vote in tough election for President Mutharika

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Austrian motor racing great Niki Lauda, who survived fiery crash, dies

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Sports

Action will heat up the holiday weekend when the 2019 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series kicks off at Eastbound International Speedway in Avondale today. Inclement weather forced the race to be moved to Monday. Action will be furious in all divisions including the NASCAR Division I series that in 2018 included drivers Justin Ryan (68), Josh Collins (23), and Chad Lawrence (5) who made it three wide on the front stretch at Eastbound. Also on track today will be Sun Life Financial Bandoleros, Hanlon Realty US Legends and Atlantic Dodge Dealers Hobby Stock drivers. — Max Cline Abrahams

Drivers, start your engines

Published 17 hours ago

Hurricanes head coach Rod Brind'Amour looks on against the Bruins during first period NHL playoff action in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals at PNC Arena in Raleigh, N.C., on Tuesday, May 14, 2019.

MICHAEL TRAIKOS: Rod Brind'Amour wants to see NHL expand video review, but at what cost to the game?

Updated May 16, 2019 at 4:33 p.m.

Warriors survive Blazers to take 2-0 series lead

Updated May 17, 2019 at 4:32 a.m.

NBA notebook: Durant to miss at least one more week

Published May 17, 2019 at 12:14 p.m.

Business

Charles Bown, who was an associate deputy minister in the Department of Natural Resources in 2012 and worked on the Muskrat Falls issue for years, continued his testimony in the witness seat on Thursday morning before Inquiry Commissioner Richard LeBlanc at the Commission of Inquiry Respecting the Muskrat Falls Project in St. John’s. Bown also appeared at the inquiry in early December 2018.

Newfoundland and Labrador government ‘ran out of time’ on oversight plan: deputy

Updated May 17, 2019 at 8:47 a.m.

Des Tranquilla (left) listens via video call from Saskatchewan to a question from Bernard Coffey, counsel for Robert Thompson, at the Muskrat Falls Inquiry hearing in St. John’s Tuesday. — Image Courtesy the Muskrat Falls Inquiry

Muskrat Falls departures tied to management style: witness

Published May 15, 2019 at 6 a.m.

Charles Bown is a former deputy minister of Natural Resources.

Deputy minister doesn’t recall learning $6.5-B figure for cost of Muskrat Falls

Updated May 16, 2019 at 10:38 a.m.

A photo circulating on Facebook shows the Black Duck Cove plant up in flames with black smoke filling the sky.

Company will help Black Duck Cove employees

Updated May 16, 2019 at 3:28 p.m.

Living

Irish traditional singer Aileen Lambert will perform Sunday afternoon at The Rooms in St. John’s, singing selections from her CD, “Lovers – Songs and Ballads of County Wexford and Newfoundland.”

County Wexford couple explores cultural connection between Ireland and Newfoundland

Updated a day ago

Dismayed or grieving, 'Game of Thrones' fans prepare for the final episode

Updated May 17, 2019 at 1:01 p.m.

A good boy, and Dennis Quaid.

'A Dog's Journey' is an utterly shameless tear-jerking machine

Updated May 17, 2019 at 6:26 a.m.

Suzi Fevens, Woodville, N.S., has been making her homemade kombucha for several years and offers great tips for those just starting out.

Kombucha catching on beyond health circles in Atlantic Canada

Updated May 17, 2019 at 6:29 p.m.

Opinion

New NDP leader Alison Coffin, who won her seat in St. John’s East-Quidi Vidi district, and St. John’s Centre district winner Jim Dinn raise their arms in victory at the NDP headquarters at the BIS building on Harvey Road following election results Thursday night.

PAM FRAMPTON: Power to the people

Published May 18, 2019 at 6 a.m.

Kevin Tobin

KEVIN TOBIN CARTOON: May 18, 2019

Updated May 18, 2019 at 8 a.m.

Liberal Leader Dwight Ball says he has no concerns over the safety of the North Spur.

BOB WAKEHAM: Ball’s Liberals — onward on a shorter leash

Published May 18, 2019 at 6 a.m.

Premier Dwight Ball speaks with reporters at Monday’s platform announcement.

RUSSELL WANGERSKY: Newfoundland and Labrador electorate, prepare to temper your expectations

Published May 18, 2019 at 6 a.m.

Community

The Rooms will have a special screening of the Newfoundland film classic "The Adventures of Faustus Bidgood" today at 7 p.m. Written, produced and directed by Michael and Andy Jones, this is a film unlike any other produced in Canada, and a comedy of destiny, love and intrigue with an all-star cast. $10 per person; 10 per cent discount for Rooms members.

Things to do today and Saturday to make you forget about the election

Published May 17, 2019 at 6 a.m.

A large and valuable collection of model ships, including those pictured here, has been donated to the Town of Marystown. DAVID RICHARD MCCANN/FACEBOOK

Marystown has big plans for a very big gift

Updated May 14, 2019 at 12:40 p.m.

Krista Hennebury will hold a quilting workshop, Round Peg, Square Hole (or Quarter Round), at St. Peter’s Parish Hall, 110 Ashford Dr., today from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. $90. Fee includes pattern. Space for 20 participants. Hosted by the St. John’s Modern Quilt Guild.

Things to do this long weekend other than camp

Published May 18, 2019 at 6 a.m.

Young skiers are pictured here with the groomer.

Plum Point ski club celebrates new groomer

Published May 17, 2019 at 2:45 p.m.

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