In the dream, it's a Saturday night and I am working with my colleague Bob Benson on the Sunday Telegram. As the editor, I’m giving the pages a final proof. It’s not clear why Bob, a reporter, is still here at this hour, but here he is, offering to ...

I recently used the CBC carbon tax calculator to compare to the carbon rebate for my household and saw that our rebate comes in significantly higher than our estimated carbon tax. Of course, we’ve made decisions to achieve this, so in my household, ...

It was this past March 12, 2024, that I attended the N.L. NDP CDCP (Canadian Dental Care Plan) Seniors Info Session at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch on the Boulevard, St. John's. The CDCP is starting with seniors, children under 18 and people with ...

Connie Pike, BA police studies, with Miles for Smiles Foundation, provided the following opinion article. This year we’re celebrating the 20th anniversary of the world's largest social media platform. Begun in 2004, Facebook now boasts 3.05 billion ...

Martha Muzychka Special to SaltWire In our internet-fuelled culture, things change quickly. Trends — the currency for platforms like TikTok — come and go at a dizzying speed.  On the lighter side, this can make it seem like Monday’s meme is Friday’s ...

JEERS: to continued delays in compensating Mount Cashel victims. As heard in Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court on Thursday, April 18, survivors of abuse — terrible, life-impacting sexual and physical abuse suffered by young people at the hands ...

“I've said before, you do the right thing and you let the chips fall where they may,” said Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. The chips being the 10 or 20,000 extra Ukrainians who died needlessly during the six months ...

I want to applaud the City of St. John's for undertaking its campaign to address violence and crime, called “Building Safer Communities”. While St. John's is probably one of the safest communities in the world, there remains much work to be done to ...

In introducing the 2024 federal budget, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland promised a better life to young Canadians who have been struggling with affording the same lifestyle as previous generations. “A fair chance to build a good middle-class life ...

Language is a living thing that morphs over time. Words fall out of fashion, their meanings can shift or expand, their origins can disappear into the mists of time, or they themselves can become archaic. We may still be on tenterhooks waiting for ...