The Telegram

I have a map in my head. I suppose everybody does, actually, a unique map that they build, day by day, step by step, mile by mile. It is an extremely personal thing, and one that’s so particular to your own brain and memory that it ...

Welcome to the test tube. But at least we’re on the positive side of the ledger. When the COVID-19 pandemic is behind us, you can be certain that it will be fodder for everyone from economists interested in the financial impacts to ...

DR. SARAH FRASER • Guest Opinion Dr. Sarah Fraser is a family physician and the new co-director of the Medical Humanities Program at Dalhousie University in Halifax. She is author of Humanity Emergency: Poetry of a Medical Student and ...

Our lives have changed over the last year because of the pandemic with more of us working from home. And that has led to an increase in reports of people seeing coyotes in the Hammonds Plains area, the Walsh Court neighbourhood near St. ...

A sacred cow is an idea that people support and do not criticize or question, regardless of evidence to the contrary. DFO has adopted catch and release as its sacred cow. Conservation means the careful prevention of injury, waste and loss of ...

I am writing to respond to the letter to the editor which appeared in your pages on April 3: “Let’s bring voting out of the Dark Ages.” The letter’s author remarked that if he could “log into my bank account, into my tax ...

This strangest of all elections is finally over and Andrew Furey is now Premier Furey. Like all premiers before him, he will try to implement policies as well as keep the promises which he believes are the most important. Perhaps, unlike other ...

Due to circumstances which I cannot control (age, health) I was unable to be very active or vocal in our recent provincial election campaign. I nevertheless was rooting for the party with the most empathy for Newfoundlanders, native or imported. ...

Ah, the dreaded asterisk. Ardent followers of sports have become familiar with the word, utilized most often to imply that a record of some sort or another is not quite as pure as it appears at first glance. For instance, long-time baseball ...

In 1917, construction on the Niagara Falls hydro generating station was started with a planned cost of $76 million; 104 years later it is still operational. Fifty years later, the construction of Churchill Falls commenced with a planned cost of ...