The Telegram

Snowmageddon descended upon the eastern most province of Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador. Its capital, St. John’s, is heaped with mounds of white fluff. A never-before heard silence – thanks mainly to state of emergency that ...

I wish I could find it amusing, all these lawyers of long experience and high repute pretending they don’t know the difference between criminal law and constitutional law. Any first-year law student in the United States could tell them that ...

I am a self-employed person and have been for 35 years. Although I am self-employed I have also kept three people employed, and all are paid above the minimum wage. I have never look for, asked for or received any money from any arm of government ...

Here’s some food for thought. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court of Canada reviewed a case from Quebec, in which a company had been fined $30,843 for operating as a contractor without holding a licence. The interesting thing is that there ...

So, I was thinking about onions. Actually, I was cutting up an onion, and thinking about trial and error. Serious trial and error. Who, for example, first pulled up a wild onion, long before they were cultivated, and thought, ...

Can I use your page to express my gratitude to the gallant soldiers who showed up at our snow-blocked doors? I did not catch their names except for a Mr. Richard, because they came, they shovelled and they disappeared within minutes — but this ...

I have to vent. With all due respect to St. John’s Mayor Danny Breen, I think we are heading to a potential nightmare in declaring future states of emergency. I see no reason to shut down Mount Pearl and Paradise because Gower Street in ...

Stores, at least, were well stocked to start. People clearly were not. And maybe, just maybe, the general public got an inkling of what food insecurity might feel like. Food insecurity is a simple concept: it’s when you either ...

It’s the Holy Grail of crime shows on television. A hush falls over the crime scene, as an investigator points a swab at the sky and intones quietly, “We’ve got DNA.” It carries similar weight in courts in real life. ...

I live in Pouch Cove and on Friday evening we started having some scary stuff happening with our electricity from the wind. Our lights started blinking super fast, and then we lost half the power in the house. We called Newfoundland Power, who ...