The Telegram

All right: from the very beginning, let’s admit the obvious. Clearing snow from streets and sidewalks in St. John’s — with a winter climate that runs through snow, freezing rain, rain and the inevitable refreeze-up that follows ...

Donald J. Trump is not a lawyer (although Trump, Trump, Trump & Kushner does have a certain elegance.) If Trump had been a lawyer, he would have known that he needed evidence in order to accuse the U.S.A.-Mexico border of being a ...

A number of countries are banning single-use plastic bags — the usual supermarket types — and although this is a good start they should ban all plastic bags in shops. The ban has been well-supported by most people, although there have ...

On Friday, Jan. 4, Derek Winsor was in small claims court in St. John’s, looking for justice against Eastern Waste Management. This is a monstrosity that was set up some years ago by the provincial government when it, in its wisdom, decided ...

Rome wasn’t built in a day, and Newfoundland and Labrador provincial politics has never shown the flexibility to turn on a dime. But a new party held an information session in St. John’s last week, arguing it’s time to make that ...

Michael James was sitting in his parents' home in Corner Brook doing something a lot of kids did at the age of 7. He was sitting in front of the television watching The Muppets. Amidst the puppet hi-jinx that was likely unfolding on the ...

The world continues to amaze and astound. The perennially No. 1 Alabama Crimson Tide get slaughtered in the NCAA football championship game. Frenchmen set up barricades in downtown Paris, in 2019 as in 1789. And some people still support, ...

Old Christmas day has come and gone, the tree is down, packed in its box for another year, the one ornament I missed in the great undoing, sitting on the piano waiting to go in the box next year because you know I’ll never get around to taking ...

Newfoundland and Labrador tourism sure has come a long way in the last 35 years. For starters, we routinely have cruise ships coming in. Cruise ships! You know, those titanic, mostly white, floating palaces of fine dining, balcony-riddled ...

When things go wrong — really wrong — I recommend soup. Two-day soup. Chicken. Not the eating, necessarily — the making. Keep in mind this is not a recipe. This is a coping mechanism. My mother-in-law, a lovely ...