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![One man was taken to hospital following an apparent stabbing in Mount Pearl Friday night. Keith Gosse/The Telegram]()
Woman arrested, man sent to hospital following stabbing in Mount Pearl late Friday night
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![Emergency services were called to a serious workplace accident Friday morning at Weir’s Construction on Peacekeepers Way. Keith Gosse/The Telegram]()
UPDATE: Man, 61, dies in workplace incident, police confirm
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![Marble Mountain in Steady Brook has been closed since March 13 when it was ordered to shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Plans are being worked on to reopen the ski resort for this season.]()
Tourism minister says plan being worked on to open Marble Mountain this season
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![Former Mount Pearl Mayor and MHA Harvey Hodder]()
Former Mount Pearl mayor and MHA Harvey Hodder dies
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![There will be more US and Canadian military aircraft in the Happy Valley-Goose Bay region next week as NORAD conducts an arctic air defense exercise. - FILE PHOTO]()
NORAD conducting air defence operation in Labrador
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![Darrell Fox, younger brother of Terry Fox, his daughter Alexandra (left) and his niece Kirsten Fox stand at the Terry Fox monument in downtown St. John’s in April 2019. SaltWire Network file photo]()
Terry Fox Run going virtual this year
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![One man was taken to hospital following an apparent stabbing in Mount Pearl Friday night. Keith Gosse/The Telegram]()
Woman arrested, man sent to hospital following stabbing in Mount Pearl late Friday night
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![Oct. 1 is the deadline for public input on the WERAC natural areas protection plan. The proposed Cloud River ecological reserve is located on the Northern Peninsula.]()
Still a lot of opposition as deadline for public input on WERAC plan approaches
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RCMP investigates attempted robbery, makes arrest
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RCMP responds to bomb threat at King’s Cove school
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RCMP arrests impaired driver on popular walking trail
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Central Newfoundland has one new COVID-19 case
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Municipalities expect most B.C. homeowners to pay property taxes despite COVID-19
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Calgary restaurateurs say anti-maskers are causing social media headaches
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John Turner: Former prime minister, UBC track star, ‘Canada’s Kennedy’ dies at age 91
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Canada's Conservative opposition leader tests positive for COVID-19
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![Boats from the Sipekne’katik First Nation leave the Saulnierville wharf with lobster gear aboard after the seven moderate livelihood licences and tags were given out. Also outside of the mouth of the harbour were dozens of commercial lobster vessels from LFA 34 who are protesting out-of-season commercial sales of lobster.
TINA COMEAU PHOTO]()
Unama'ki shows support for Sipekn'katik fishers
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![Matthew Davidson and his wife have seen health workers not properly wearing masks at various sites in the past few months when they have gone for medical tests...seen in Halifax Wednesday September 16, 2020.]()
Halifax man says some staff at medical sites didn't wear masks properly
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![A coalition representing a variety of business sectors is calling on the federal government to extend the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy program beyond its current end date. — CONTRIBUTED]()
East Coast businesses want to see wage subsidy program extended
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![About 28,000 litres of synthetic drilling fluid spilled from the Transocean Barents rig in the Terra Nova oil field Friday.]()
Fast-rescue craft fire onboard offshore vessel being investigated
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![Cavendish Farms president Robert K. Irving stands in front of the new $12.5-million research centre unveiled on Thursday.]()
Cavendish Farms unveils new $12.5-million potato research centre in P.E.I.
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One half of this millennial couple is cheap, the other doesn't believe in budgets at all
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Ottawa needs to redirect stimulus from social programs to growth: AIMCo chair Mark Wiseman
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![The Dildo Boathouse Inn repurposed a former boatyard originally started by the late father of one of the owners. — CONTRIBUTED]()
Former Dildo Boat Yard property stays in the family as Dildo Boathouse Inn
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![Jacob Santerre of the Cape Breton Eagles, right, and Charlie DesRoches of the Saint John Sea Dogs watch the play during Quebec Major Junior Hockey League preseason action at Centre 200 in Sydney on Friday. Cape Breton won the game 3-2 in a shootout. PHOTO/CAPE BRETON POST STAFF]()
Francis scores shootout winner as Cape Breton Eagles beat Sea Dogs
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![Members of the St. Pat’s team that won the 1970 St. John’s junior baseball championship are (first row, from left): batboy Cecil Cochrane, Gerry Connolly, Wayne Yetman, Ed Burke, Bob Janes and batboy Cyril Cochrane; (standing, from left): coach Ken Coleman, Gary Pinto, Ken Coffey, Bill Cochrane, Dennis MacDonald, Brian Brocklehurst, Bob Walsh, Ron Power, Dave Parsley and coach Mike Martin. Missing from photo are Bob Wilson, Dave Martin, Bill Murray, Bob Jackman and Randy Royle. — Submitted photo]()
Irish eyes were smiling on Wishingwell 50 years ago as St. Pat’s came back to win first junior baseball title
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![An artist's rendering from Fougere Menchenton Architecture of how Mile One Centre would look if Newfoundland Growlers owner Dean MacDonald purchased Mile One and completed an overhaul of the soon-to-be 20-year-old arena in downtown St. John’s.]()
ROBIN SHORT: Dean MacDonald has big plans for Mile One Centre in downtown St. John's
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![Steven MacDonald of New Waterford, left, lands a punch to the face of William Carriere during the light-heavyweight championship bout of Xcessive Force Fighting Championship in Grand Prairie, Alta., in March 2019. MacDonald won the fight and recently signed a multi-year, multi-fight contract with Bellator MMA, a professional mixed martial arts promotion. ROB TRUDEAU PHOTO]()
VIDEO: New Waterford fighter Steven MacDonald signs multi-year, multi-fight contract with Bellator MMA
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![Chrisnovic N’Sa, centre, lead the HFX Wanderers players in a warmup prior to a training session. The Wanderers will play Forge FC for the Canadian Premier League championship on Saturday, Sept., 19, at 3 p.m. in Charlottetown.]()
‘Hungry’ HFX Wanderers eager to face Forge FC for CPL championship
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![The Tignish Aces represented Prince Edward Island at the national senior baseball championships in Brandon, Man., in 1970. The team included, front row, two bat boys from Brandon. Second row, from left, Tex MacDonald, Allie Arsenault, Ernest Gallant, Billy Keough, Louis Murphy, Bruce Arsenault, Alphie Handrahan, Mike Kayes and Cletus Keough. Third row, manager Eugene Perry, coach Gerald Keough, Clifton Gavin, Mike McInnis, Gerald McArthy, Billy Conahan, Ivan DesRoche, Elton Ellis, Ted Lawlor, Leo Richard, Dan Larkin and Willie Handrahan.]()
FIDDLER'S FACTS: Morell Chevies, Tignish Aces and the Toronto Blue Jays
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![Berni Stapleton]()
Berni Stapleton named to longlist for prestigious national literary award
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![The fifth annual St. John’s Short Plays Festival is underway. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO BY JAMIE SKIDMORE]()
WENDY ROSE REVIEW: St. John’s Shorts Plays Festival’s drive-in double feature – the future of live theatre?
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![At 64 years of age, Joy Hecht decided she’d switch careers from an economic consultant to a collage artist. The Manhattan born Hecht, who lived much of her adult life in Washington, D.C., fell in love with Newfoundland and Labrador after a trip she made here in her Volkswagen van, and eventually moved here in 2009. – Andrew Waterman/The Telegram]()
At retirement age, St. John’s-based economic consultant switches to life as collage artist
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![“On This Day: 365 Tales of History, Mystery, and More,” by Dale Jarvis; Flanker Press; $19.95; 264 pages. — Contributed]()
JOAN SULLIVAN: Jarvis shares tales of the odd, the eerie, the illegal and the stunned
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![When the weather is warm you have to move fast. — Paul Smith Photo]()
PAUL SMITH: Early autumn moose hunting
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![There’s nothing better than homemade blueberry banana loaves fresh out of the oven. All you need is a cup of tea and you’re set. – Paul Pickett photo]()
ERIN SULLEY: I’m feeling blue (berries, that is)
