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Cost of Food Expected to Increase in 2020, According to Food Price Report
You can expect to pay more for your groceries in 2020. Changes in climate will help push food prices about four per cent higher according to the Canada Food Price Report, released by Dalhousie and Gue...
Dec 06, 2019 (Stock image.)
Growlers Sign Goaltender Parker Gahagen
The Newfoundland Growlers have signed goaltender Parker Gahagen of Amherst New York, to a standard ECHL contract. The 26-year-old appeared in six games this season with the Evansville Thunderbolts of ...
Dec 06, 2019
Husky Energy Puts $1-Million Into New Centre at Memorial University
Husky Energy is contributing just over $1-million to create a new centre at Memorial University to bring expertise on sales and supply chain management to the province. The Husky Centre of Excellence ...
Dec 06, 2019
Marble Mountain Tentative Opening Set for January 2
Winter sports enthusiasts on the west coast will have about a month to prepare themselves for the opening of ski season. Marble Mountain has set January 2 as its tentative opening date. Following a he...
Dec 06, 2019
Woman Acquitted of Charge in 2017 Fatal Collision in Cow Head
A woman charged in connection with the collision that claimed the life of a 17-year-old boy in Cow Head two years ago has been acquitted in provincial court. Neila Blanchard of Parsons Pond was arrest...
Dec 06, 2019
Canada Sees Loss of 71,000 Jobs in November
The Canadian economy has posted its biggest monthly job loss since the financial crisis, with the unemployment rate climbing to just under six per cent. Statistics Canada says the economy lost 71,000 ...
Dec 06, 2019
Every Three Days, a Woman is Killed in Canada: Femicide Observatory Releases 2019 Report
The Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability is releasing an extensive report today - the 30th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre. Fourteen women who were pursuing engineering ca...
Dec 06, 2019
Shortage of Donor Organs a Fatal Issue Across Canada
Canada is still facing a shortage of organs for transplant. That's according to the latest statistics released by the Canadian Institute for Health Information. Manager of Acute Care and Ambulatory Se...
Dec 06, 2019
Canada Marks Thirty Years Since École Polytechnique Massacre
Today marks one of the darkest days in recent Canadian history. Thirty years ago on this day in 1989, 14 women - studying to become engineers - were gunned down at l'Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, c...
Dec 06, 2019
Liam Hickey and Team Canada Go for Gold Against the US
Newfoundland Sledge Hockey player and Paralympian, Liam Hickey is featured in a new video released by Hockey Canada. Playing the game with teammates decades older than him through the Avalon Sled Dogs...
Dec 06, 2019 (Liam Hickey. File photo.)
