The Telegram

To insurers, the landscape that Brian Jones paints in “Newfoundlanders are the caplin of mankind” is rather glorious. Jones claims that insurance companies can charge whatever they want for auto insurance, whenever they want. I would ...

A recent mid-year update by Finance Minister Tom Osborne gives specific insight into the Ball government’s seven-year fiscal plan. Here are some facts for consideration of the Ball Liberal record since 2015 and returning to surplus by ...

I am writing this letter on behalf of the most vulnerable of human beings whose safety we, as adults, hold an inherently high degree of responsibility to ensure. I write this letter on behalf of a four-year-old girl who met an untimely death on ...

iPhones and iPads are not the only items over 50 per cent off this holiday season. Newfoundland’s rich and bountiful natural resources are up for grabs, at a fraction of the cost that most other jurisdictions charge. The only request is that ...

There have been a lot of discussions and opinion polls on why there are so many accidents on the Outer Ring Road. I am sure that speeding, distracted drivers, road conditions and weather contribute to a lot of the incidents. However, in my opinion, ...

Russell Wangersky’s column of Nov. 13 (“Universities should pay up”) highlights a problem that should worry everyone who cares about higher education: the unrelenting casualization of university teaching in this country and this ...

I would like to congratulate The Telegram for its editorial “Too close for comfort” and Ed Healy on his letter “Economy versus ecology” in the same issue, Nov. 21. Both totally hit not just one nail on the head but ...

Twenty years after joning Canada, Newfoundland was screwed by the federal government, not Quebec. The federal “family” seems purely dysfunctional when one considers what really happened at Churchill Falls, which was more political than ...

This fall the local chapter of the Council of Canadians conducted a visual survey outside 21 Dominion, Sobeys and Coleman’s stores across the Avalon Peninsula. We wanted to know how many shoppers were using reusable bags. What we discovered was ...

“Do you smell what The Rock is cooking?” That’s a line from WWE wrestler/actor Dwayne Johnson. You could ask the same of Finance Minister Tom Osborne. Are you buying what Osborne is still saying, that this province is on target to ...