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Sweetland, written by Michael Crummey, is now adapted into an upcoming movie, directed by Christian Sparkes

20 Questions with award winning author Michael Crummey

Michael Crummey is an award-winning author and his last book, 'Sweetland', is now being adapted into a movie, directed by Christian Sparkes and released on May 3, 2024. Set on a fictional island off the South Coast of Newfoundland, 'Sweetland' tells ...

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N.L. education department prioritizes hiring teachers whose majors match the subject area

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Education Minister Krista Lynn Howell speaks to reporters Tuesday afternoon in response to the NLTA news conference. -Juanita Mercer/The Telegram

Things to know to help shape your week in Newfoundland and Labrador May 6

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Targa Newfoundland is slated for a 2023 return. File

Forensic DNA expert, police tech investigator testify as Chris Carter's sexual assault trial continues in St. John's

Updated May. 3, 2024 |3 min read

Accused murderer Ibrahim Al Ahmad returns to St. John's court

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Trio accused of kidnapping St. John's teenager expected to enter pleas next month

Updated May. 3, 2024 |2 min read

Opinion

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 ...

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

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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

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

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Business

KEITH GOSSE/THE TELEGRAM
Dominion stores across the province closed Sunday. a spokesman for Dominion says the union is on strike while the union says they have been locked out.
(THE ST. JOHN'S TELEGRAM /KEITH GOSSE)

'War against income inequality': Why these N.L. shoppers are joining the Loblaws boycott

There’s a certain grape juice Shelley Senior buys because it agrees with her sensitive stomach. It’s only available at Dominion, but the Corner Brook resident is willing to go without that product for the next month as she participates in the ...

Updated May. 3, 2024 |4 min read

Furey says any potential deal on Churchill Falls will be debated and voted on in House of Assembly

Updated May. 3, 2024 |3 min read

Premier Andrew Furey speaks to reporters outside the House of Assembly on Tuesday. -Juanita Mercer/The Telegram

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An offshore oil rig near the Gulf of Thailand. Oil, oil prices, price of gas, fuel,.

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Atlantic Canadian post-secondary institutions awarded nearly $10M to commercialize research

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China offers flexible jobs for women after childbirth

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Lifestyles

20 Questions with award winning author Michael Crummey

Michael Crummey is an award-winning author and his last book, 'Sweetland', is now being adapted into a movie, directed by Christian Sparkes and released on May 3, 2024. Set on a fictional island off the South Coast of Newfoundland, 'Sweetland' tells ...

Updated 58 minutes ago |10 min read

Formula, food and flyers: New parents in N.L. struggling to make ends meet as cost of formula soars

Updated 7 minutes ago |6 min read

According to Statistics Canada, the average price of infant formula increased 30 per cent between February 2022 and February 2024. - Unsplash

'It’s harrowing every single time': Performance anxiety, commonly known as stage fright, is a common struggle

Updated May. 3, 2024 |6 min read

Jodee Richardson, one half of the duo Jodee + Nicole, says preparation is key when struggling with stage fright. - Paddy Howard

Blink breaks and other ways to work at a computer without causing strain, pain or injury

Updated May. 2, 2024 |5 min read

Changing with the seasons: Atlantic Canadian mothers share their budgeting tips for getting kids new summer clothing

Updated May. 2, 2024 |6 min read

ERIN SULLEY: How to make the perfect homemade treats for your favourite pup

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Sports

Brad Gushue and his Canada rink have won three-in-a-row at the 2024 Montana’s Brer after defeating Prince Edward Island on Wednesday. They are now 5-2 and in the playoff hunt. Michael Burns/Curling Canada

With return to home ice on the horizon, Brad Gushue enters the offseason with eyes on staying at the top

Brad Gushue and his crew’s offseason is only a couple of weeks old, so you wouldn’t think he’s spent any time looking ahead to next season yet. However, with a Grand Slam of Curling event scheduled for the Mary Brown’s Centre in St. John’s, Gushue ...

Updated May. 3, 2024 |5 min read

A future imagined: Paradise teen makes his hockey commentary debut at Royal Newfoundland Regiment memorial tournament

Updated May. 1, 2024 |3 min read

Paradise teenager Drew Feltham made his hockey commentary debut at the Royal Newfoundland Regiment Memorial Hockey Tournament when he called some 20-25 games at the tournament last month. Contributed photo

‘Don’t hesitate to try this sport’: Atlantic Canadians endorsing the resurgence of badminton

Updated Apr. 30, 2024 |6 min read

Badminton Canada estimates that over 2 million people play badminton regularly in Canada on an annual basis.

DOJO: Mount Pearl, St. John’s reached the semifinals at 2024 Don Johnson Memorial Cup

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On the ice with the pros: Mount Pearl girl hits ice as an anthem skater for PWHL game in Ottawa

Updated Apr. 24, 2024 |4 min read

Baseball NL wants more players and communities to 'Step Up to the Plate'

Updated Apr. 25, 2024 |2 min read

Canada

IN PHOTO: Cape Breton Clean Up tackles trash in CBRM

Ann Dunn-Ling reaches for a piece of trash while cleaning litter from a ditch near Malcolm Munroe Memorial Middle School in Sydney River during the CBRM's Cape Breton Clean Up on Saturday. The Sydney River resident has been volunteering with the ...

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IN PHOTOS: Remembering the Battle of the Atlantic

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Cape Breton Naval Veterans Association master-at-arms David Keeping, right, leads the colour guard during the Battle of the Atlantic in Sydney Mines on Sunday. The battle lasted throughout the Second World War and more than 4,300 members of the Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Canadian Air Force and Canadian Merchant Navy were killed trying to control the Atlantic Ocean against German forces. The Battle of the Atlantic also brought the Second World War to Canada’s doorstep, with German submarines torpedoing ships within sight of the coast, including the SS Caribou, a passenger ferry that ran between North Sydney and Port aux Basques, Newfoundland. On Oct. 14, 1942, a U-boat sank the vessel, causing the worst loss of life in Canadian waters during the Second World War. Of the 237 people onboard, 167 were killed, including several mothers with children. The Battle of the Atlantic is recognized on the first Sunday in May in Canada. CHRIS CONNORS/CAPE BRETON POST

IN PHOTO: Honouring Red Dress Day in Sydney

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The Nova Scotia Native Women's Association (NSNWA) held a ceremony and awareness walk on Sunday at the Wentworth Park Bandshell. in honour of MMIWG2S (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit). The event featured solemn drumming and heartfelt speeches, followed by an awareness walk from Wentworth Park to the Jane Paul Indigenous Women's Resource Centre on George Street in downtown Sydney. Similar events were held across the country. MITCHELL FERGUSON/CAPE BRETON POST

Cape Breton councillors 'shocked' by abrupt changes to fire service's hazmat response unit

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Singh bashes Trudeau, Poilievre in Halifax, offers no hint when he'll trigger an election

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'What can we do?': Cape Breton restaurant has ongoing issue with vandals

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World

Member of the European Parliament Matthias Ecke walks in Dresden, Germany, April 20, 2024.

Four teenagers investigated over attack on German MEP

By Sarah Marsh and Holger Hansen BERLIN (Reuters) - Four teenagers are being investigated over an attack on a German Member of the European Parliament that left him needing surgery, police said on Monday, as Berlin debated how to tackle a rise in ...

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Democrat Hakeem Jeffries steps up as House Republicans roast Johnson

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U.S. House of Representatives Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) gives his weekly press conference at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S., April 11, 2024.

Trump to return to New York courtroom for criminal hush money trial

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Former President Donald Trump speaks with the media at Manhattan Supreme Court during the proceedings in his criminal trial at the New York State Supreme Court in New York, New York, Friday, May, 3, 2024. Curtis Means/Pool via

German ministers to hold special meeting after spate of attacks on politicians

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Marseille garbage collectors strike ahead of Olympic torch arrival

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

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20 Questions with award winning author Michael Crummey

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'It’s harrowing every single time': Performance anxiety, commonly known as stage fright, is a common struggle

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Changing with the seasons: Atlantic Canadian mothers share their budgeting tips for getting kids new summer clothing

ERIN SULLEY: How to make the perfect homemade treats for your favourite pup

Sports

With return to home ice on the horizon, Brad Gushue enters the offseason with eyes on staying at the top

A future imagined: Paradise teen makes his hockey commentary debut at Royal Newfoundland Regiment memorial tournament

‘Don’t hesitate to try this sport’: Atlantic Canadians endorsing the resurgence of badminton

DOJO: Mount Pearl, St. John’s reached the semifinals at 2024 Don Johnson Memorial Cup

On the ice with the pros: Mount Pearl girl hits ice as an anthem skater for PWHL game in Ottawa

Baseball NL wants more players and communities to 'Step Up to the Plate'

Canada

IN PHOTO: Cape Breton Clean Up tackles trash in CBRM

IN PHOTOS: Remembering the Battle of the Atlantic

IN PHOTO: Honouring Red Dress Day in Sydney

Cape Breton councillors 'shocked' by abrupt changes to fire service's hazmat response unit

Singh bashes Trudeau, Poilievre in Halifax, offers no hint when he'll trigger an election

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