The Telegram

You can run, but don’t bet on effectively hiding. At least, not for ever. And sometimes, not at all. Recently, two employees of a contracting firm working at Churchill Falls were caught on video making disparaging comments about Indigenous ...

Jeers: to bad ideas. While Prince Harry and Megan Markle may be moving to Canada to find some freedom from the ridiculousness royal disease found in British media, there are troubling signs of a similar disorder here. Last week, there were stories ...

Three of Canada’s political parties are being investigated by the federal Competition Bureau. It sounds like a long shot — but in some ways, it makes a lot of sense. It’s all about your privacy. While the ...

Eight pedestrians hit by vehicles in four days. Sidewalks buried in snow, leaving pedestrians with few options. The connection is, well, stupefyingly obvious. The only real question is, with this being only January, how many more pedestrians ...

It will be interesting to see who the players end up being. Or maybe there’s someone already in mind, because it’s pretty hard to fit this particular bill unless you’re already a well-known Conservative politician. A week ago, ...

The world of literature provides a number of tales of royalty and their troubles, with Shakespeare giving us “Hamlet” involving madness and a treachery from a brother whereas “Macbeth” tells of the plotting by a wife. The ...

I’m seeing multiple vehicle-pedestrian collision stories lately in the local news with predictably devastating injuries and even death resulting. Apparently common sense may not be that common. Motorists — stay vigilant and off ...

Thousands of pages of documents get filed with the province’s Public Utilities Board every year, and buried among them are fascinating things. Like this story in three parts: on Aug. 1, 2019, Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro asks the PUB for ...

John Crosbie is remembered for his many contributions to the life of Newfoundland, but he has not been known as a poet. On my bookshelf there is an old magazine with a sonnet, a 14-line poem, which bears his name. A young John Crosbie at age 15 ...

These days, crossing any of the 27 streets that converge at Rawlins Cross feels like trying to dash across the speedway during the Indianapolis 500: the cars just keep coming. While waiting for a break in traffic, you have plenty of time to ponder ...