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U.S. Slaps 25% Tariffs on Canada - Oil Spared With Lower Rate
US President Donald Trump confirmed today that tariffs are coming against Canada. The president, who has been threatening tariffs against Canada, Mexico and China says tariffs are coming on things lik...
Jan 31, 2025 Photo via C-Span
MUN Denies Cut in Teaching Assistants Cited in Social Media Post
A social media post suggesting that teaching assistant budgets have been cut at the Faculty of Science at Memorial University are not accurate, says MUN. The post suggests assignments are not being fu...
Jan 31, 2025
Lab Tests Lead to Drug-Impaired Driving Charge Against C.B.N. Man
RCMP have added a charge of drug-impaired driving against a 20-year-old Harbour Grace man following an incident on the south side of Carbonear last September. Police say Mitchell Cox was arrested Sept...
Jan 31, 2025 (Harbour Grace Provincial Court)
Tests Confirm Lethal Mix of Drugs Seized in Arrest on City Parking Lot
RCMP say lab analysis of drugs seized in St. John's in December has confirmed the substance to be a mix of fentanyl and a highly-potent type of horse tranquilizer, known as medetomidine. Federal RCMP ...
Jan 31, 2025
Benefit Concert Arranged For Local Musician With Cancer Diagnosis
A benefit concert has been organized for next week for a local musician diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. According to a Go Fund Me set up for Alison Corbett, she received her diagnosis just befor...
Jan 31, 2025 Alison Corbett (FB/Meta)
Vale's Long Harbour Plant Workers Choose Steelworkers' Union
Workers at Vale's Long Harbour processing plant have voted in favour of joining the United Steelworkers' Union. The facility employs some 280 workers in refining nickel, cobalt and copper mined at the...
Jan 31, 2025
Dinn Renews Call For Privacy Info Probe in Wake of PowerSchool Hack
The leader of the provincial NDP is calling for a "comprehensive review" of all legislation related to the collection and management of personal information. Jim Dinn's call comes after government rev...
Jan 31, 2025
NL, Ottawa Compromise on Immigration, Humanitarian Numbers
The federal government has agreed to increase Newfoundland and Labrador's economic immigration spaces by 1,000 in exchange for NL taking on an extra 100 humanitarian migrants. That means this province...
Jan 31, 2025 (Immigration and Citizenship Canada)
The Brier, For Men's Curling Supremacy, Returning to St. John's
The Brier is returning to St. John's, the details of which will be formally announced next week. The "major curling announcement" is coming on Monday. Officials, including Premier Andrew Furey, will b...
Jan 31, 2025
Impacts, Benefits of Trump Tariffs Could Take Years to Hit Home: Expert
Threatened tariffs on Canadian goods bound for the United States will reorient 50 years of North American economic development, the effects of which won't happen overnight, according to a history prof...
Jan 31, 2025
