The Telegram

Perhaps the town of Paradise was just taking the well-known adage that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” Or perhaps, there was something a little more prurient or Orwellian at play. Either way, the town’s management ...

This is editorial with two messages: one, that in this electronic age of checks and balances, it can still be remarkably easy to take millions from a nation’s tax agency. The other message? That judges recognize that punishments have to fit ...

Maybe, over the Easter long weekend, Canada’s senators took a little time to think about their role in Canadian governance. If they didn’t, all is not lost — after all, the Senate doesn’t sit again until April 16, so maybe ...

Cheers: to art for art’s sake. An abstract painting by Newfoundland-born U.R. Wright was sold at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale in Hong Kong on Saturday, to a bidder with deep pockets. “Worlds Apart,” a rendering of ...

“Dear Newfoundland and Labrador: you’re overdrawn. Your account currently shows a negative balance of $21,770,800,000, and it seems that you plan to continue to spend more than you make …” Imagine that in a letter from ...

Health Minister Dr. John Haggie sounded the alarm about antibiotic overuse in Tuesday’s budget lockup with members of the media. It was a strong warning about the consequences of the population becoming antibiotic-resistant, with Haggie ...

In the days before Budget 2018, the public was already being primed for a “stay the course” kind of document. Nothing jarring, no big cuts or tax hikes, nothing to see here, folks. Well, it’s certainly a stay the course budget ...

An earlier generation of parents worried about losing their children to other provinces in search of work they couldn’t find at home. Today’s parents have to worry that the jobs themselves will disappear and that their children have ...

CHEERS: to musical possibilities. It took a village to successfully free dolphins trapped by harbour ice in Heart’s Delight last week, and that had some wags musing about the possibilities for a new smash Broadway hit to follow hot on the heels ...

It’s one of the most challenging feats facing any provincial government: coming up with a budget during lean times that shows prudent fiscal management while offering few nuggets of spending optimism. So on Tuesday, when Premier Dwight ...