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Public Outcry as Many Find Having Alcohol at the Movies Hard to Swallow
Beer and popcorn don't mix according to the majority of respondents to the VOCM News Question of the Day. St. John's City Council voted overwhelmingly yesterday to allow Cineplex to establish a lounge...
Feb 04, 2020 Kate Ashfield, Simon Pegg, and Penelope Wilton in 2004's Shaun of the Dead (Universal Pictures)
Changes Coming to Labrador Clinics Dispensing Medications
As of March 2nd, the community clinics in Postville, Makkovik, and Rigolet will no longer be dispensing long term prescriptions. The changes are due to standards of practice set out by the NL Pharmacy...
Feb 04, 2020
Fear, Racism Around Coronavirus Spreading Faster Than Virus: Human Rights Commission
Although officials are stating the risk of transmission for coronavirus is low in Canada, a human rights representative says fear and racism is spreading. Executive Director of the Human Rights Commis...
Feb 04, 2020 Stock image by Nesnad, courtesy Wikimedia Commons
One in Two Canadians Still Affected as World Marks Twentieth World Cancer Day
Today marks World Cancer Day, and this year is a milestone. This year is the 20th anniversary. It started on February 4, 2000 at the World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium in Paris, and ha...
Feb 04, 2020
Beware of Children Playing Near Snow Clearing Machinery, Warns Mayor
In the wake of yet another weather event that brought snow and heavy rain to the metro region, the Mayor of St. John's is renewing his calls for parents to be extra vigilant when their kids are out an...
Feb 04, 2020 (VOCM File Photo.)
Economists Look for Positive Solutions to Province's Fiscal Issues
A conference is being held in St. John's next week focusing on the fiscal reality facing the province. The provincial government is remaining tight-lipped on Budget 2020 thus far and what it might ent...
Feb 04, 2020
Southlands Wants Out: Residents Ponder Joining Mount Pearl
They say the snow is always clearer on the other side. A woman who lives in Southlands is trying to get a movement going have their populous area taken away from St. John's and given to the City of Mo...
Feb 04, 2020
St. John's Woman Heading up Doctors Without Borders Canada
The Canadian branch of a global humanitarian organization is headed by a woman with strong Newfoundland connections. Dr. Wendy Lai, who grew up and went to school in St. John's, is the President of Do...
Feb 04, 2020
Police Investigating Two Collisions That Occurred During Sunday Storm
The RCMP is reminding the public to be vigilant if you must drive in snow storms, after two separate collisions during Sunday's brief storm. Holyrood RCMP are investigating two separate collisions, th...
Feb 04, 2020
Northeast Eagles Hockey Team Needs Your Help to Reach the Good Deeds Cup
The Northeast Eagles Peewee C All-Stars hockey team need your help in the final push for the Chevrolet Good Deeds Cup. The Eagles are neck and neck with another province for the lead in the Good Deeds...
Feb 04, 2020
