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Advocate Accuses Home Insurance of Discrimination Against Students
The man behind a Facebook group that advocates for the rights of landlords and tenants says policies by some home insurance companies are discriminatory towards students. Sherwin Flight is the adminis...
Oct 28, 2019
Border Services Removes Three People from Vessel in Argentia
Three people were removed from a vessel that arrived in Argentia yesterday. Canada Border Services Agency boarded the vessel, and the three people were taken to St. John's for further processing. The ...
Oct 28, 2019 (Photo via Port of Argentia.)
Coast Guard Applauds Crews for Rescue of Sailboat Off NL Coast
The Canadian Coast Guard is giving crews a resounding 'Bravo Zulu'-or well done-after they jumped into action when a sailboat ran into issues off the coast of Newfoundland. At the time, JRCC Lieutenan...
Oct 28, 2019
Community Sector Stresses Importance of Multi-Year Funding
The Community Sector Council Summit continues in the capital city, and a big topic of discussion today was multi-year funding. Premier Dwight Ball, and a number of cabinet ministers-including Lisa Dem...
Oct 28, 2019
Police Seek Pickup Allegedly Involved in Hit and Run
The RNC is seeking the public's help in locating a pickup allegedly involved in a hit run earlier this month. RNC responded to a collision at Allandale Road and Elizabeth Avenue around 8:00 p.m. on We...
Oct 28, 2019
Cigarette Packs Soon to Have Labels Stripped of Distinctive Designs
Canada's smokers will soon see their cigarette packs stripped of logos and distinctive designs as federal rules make drab brown the default colour for tobacco brands late next week. Plain-packaged cig...
Oct 28, 2019
St. Mark's Hosts First Anglican Church-Sanctioned Same-Sex Marriage
A little bit of history was made over the weekend at St. Mark's Anglican Church on Logy Bay Road. Reverend Robert Cooke presided over the first church-sanctioned same-sex marriage. The diocese only pa...
Oct 28, 2019
Election Fallout and Regional Division on the Agenda at Tonight's Galbraith Lecture with Evan Solomon
Last week's federal election will be the topic as political analyst Evan Solomon takes the podium this evening for the 2019 Galbraith Lecture in Public Policy at Memorial University. Solomon, who host...
Oct 28, 2019
Potential Showers Forecast for Halloween Night
Environment Canada has given us a preliminary look into what the heavens will be doing on Thursday as thousands of trick-or-treaters take to the streets. No precipitation is forecast for St. John's, t...
Oct 28, 2019 Stock image
South Coast Northern Harvest Fish Cleanup Completed
Northern Harvest says all the dead fish have been removed from cages in Fortune Bay, affected by a massive die-off over the summer. The removal was completed on Friday. Some 2.6-million fish died due ...
Oct 28, 2019 Picture courtesy the Atlantic Salmon Federation.
