Featured Local Perspectives
LETTER: Let's not miss out on hydrogen development opportunities
Climate change is one of the most important issues being addressed now. The future energy supply is going to be in transition from fossil fuel to green technology. Green technology, in this context, means that the energy is derived from renewable ...
LETTER: Remembering the victims of the Newfoundland Sealing Disaster of 1914
March 31st marks the 110th anniversary of the Newfoundland Sealing Disaster. The total loss of life in this disaster sums to 251 men, including 78 from the S.S. Newfoundland and all 173 from the S.S. Southern Cross. This says nothing of the 88 ...
LETTER: 'I can’t see a future where there is no Telegram'
No, to answer the numerous emails and calls I receive. I do not get paid by The Telegram. No, I do not get contacted by the editor asking me to write an opinion piece on a subject she chooses. My opinion is my opinion and, since 1921, when the first ...
LETTER: Carbon tax and Premier Furey
Mr. Poilievre and our Premier Furey are against the carbon tax hike, of course, out of the concern for the hard-working Canadians struggling with the affordability crisis. Except … that this crisis has nothing to do with the carbon tax – countries ...
LETTER: N.L. government forgot libraries in the budget - again
As a follow up to my letter last month about the insignificant funding from the Furey Liberal government to our libraries in Newfoundland and Labrador, I was naive enough to think the Minister Howell would actually provide more funding in this year's ...
LETTER: Listen to the Governor of the Bank of Canada
Those who heeded the Governor of the Bank of Canada in late 2021 or early in 2022 about increasing interest rates and renewed or renegotiated their mortgages for a five-year term at that time would have saved themselves a lot of money. Sacrificing a ...
Cheers and Jeers for Newfoundland and Labrador March 26
CHEERS: to a healthy snow crab resource. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans on Monday announced that the 2024 snow crab total allowable catch (TAC) will be 57,568 tonnes — an increase of 5.2 per cent from last year. That’s incredible. The recent ...
LETTER: Reflections on Mulroney's passing
The passing of Brian Mulroney has led to fitting and honouring tributes to a great prime minister, and a great Canadian. Canadians from all walks of life – and of all political persuasions – have lauded his substantial political achievements, from ...
LETTER: A look at the N.L. fishery dispute, how we got here, and why
It is truly amazing that 527 years after the first fish were drawn in baskets from Newfoundland waters, we are not able to agree on just about every aspect of it. Of course, since the first cod were drawn from the water, fishers now catch crab, ...
GWYNNE DYER: The world is facing three famines right now, and they all stem from politics
There are three incipient famines in the world today, and politics is at the root of all of them. That’s not unusual, actually: famines are almost always political events. My family is descended from the Catholic Irish diaspora, and when I was a boy ...