The Telegram

I write in praise of all those committed to the Sisters in Spirit Vigil held on Oct. 4th at the Cochrane Street Centre in St. John’s. It was an honour for a good friend and I to attend for the first time. This very meaningful and powerful ...

By Alex Whalen and Jake Fuss When provincial Finance Minister Siobhan Coady tabled Newfoundland and Labrador’s 2020/21 budget recently, she painted a picture of a province in fiscal peril. The Furey government projects a budget deficit of ...

The young Nigerians who were protesting at Lekki Toll Plaza in Lagos Tuesday night were not the African touring company of “Les Misérables.” Lekki is one of the poshest suburbs of Lagos, full of gated communities, and most of the ...

It hasn’t happened in Newfoundland and Labrador, and probably won’t. Even so, the topic is significant enough that it was front and centre at a news briefing with provincial health officials on COVID-19 on Wednesday: the second ...

I’d like to congratulate Robert Bishop on his excellent, well-articulated letter on Oct. 17 addressing the Bike St. John’s Master Plan and its incompatibility with existing walking trails. I didn’t know how extensive the planned ...

I write regarding Robert Bishop’s Oct. 17 letter on St. John’s walking trails. The city’s plan for “shared use paths” is utter poppycock! You cannot be all things to all people. The trail to Western Brook Pond is a ...

It was far from Parliament’s finest hour. Wednesday went from an imminent federal election to a tempest in a teapot. Or, more to the point, to political brinksmanship on plenty of sides. The issue was a simple one: frustrated by ...

Find a better way. Amidst the very public call to “defund the police” and the absolutely expected backlash that slogan has generated, a kernel of real opportunity may be lost. The treatment of people in real crisis has been brought ...

There is little doubt that fossil fuel is in the process of being phased out as a preferred energy source. Increased awareness of the importance to meet global climate goals will put pressure on renunciation of fossil fuel as future energy ...

Throughout my long tenure in the racket of journalism, I’ve always found the political photo-op made me squirm, its artifice so invariably and patently evident that an intravenous drip of anti-nausea medication would have had minimum impact on ...