Men and women leave the Colonial Building in St. John’s Friday to march to the office of MP Loyola Hearn in protest of cuts and changes to Status of Women Canada. Women’s groups throughout the province held similar events during the day.
— Photo by Gary Hebbard/The Telegram
The incident that perhaps best summarizes the relationship between Danny Williams and Stephen Harper is not one of the more memorable occasions the two men have met.
Sometimes, there’s tragedy in a single quoted sentence. Late Thursday, provincial Natural Resources Minister Kathy Dunderdale announced that former Tory candidate Joan Cleary had been forced to resign from her position of chief executive officer at the Bull Arm Fabrication site because of irregular...
The Eirik Raude is shown in a file photo. The Raude will be drilling in the Orphan basin for about a year, starting in January. — Photo courtesy of Ocean Rig
The Orphan Basin partners are still drilling their first exploration well off the northeast coast of Newfoundland, but they’re already planning two more wells for next year.
Detroit Red Wings’ Dan Cleary (11) keeps the puck away from Nashville Predators’ Scott Nichol (12) during NHL action earlier this season. With nine goals so far this year, Cleary is tied for the most tallies on the storied franchise. — Photo by The Associated Press
In this photo provided by Warner Bros. Entertainment, a farmer (Djimon Hounsou, right) and a smuggler (Leonardo DiCaprio) match wits over the possession of a priceless diamond in “Blood Diamond.”
— Photo by The Associated Press
With the powerfully acted, vividly shot ‘‘Blood Diamond,’’ director Edward Zwick takes an unflinching look at the brutality of the African diamond trade.
But there’s so much dense, political and social drama going on here, amid such glorious and bleak scenery (the lush work of cinematograph...
Selling SOCKs at Memorial University’s student centre last week were Gonzaga enterprise students (from left) Ashley Tippett, Rowena McGowan, Lily McCall, Michaela Jacobs and Santa (a.k.a. Daniel Hayden). — Photo by Denise Flint/Special to The Telegram
If you think high school is a place where bored students catch up on their sleep after a late night chatting online or playing video games, you weren’t at Memorial University’s student centre last week.
One of the great things about getting older is finding little pockets of belonging. Where once there were alien spaces, say cold spaces between the bare branches in the graveyard, or roads with no place to walk, now there are friendly places everywhere, because time has expanded my idea of what a pl...
Federal Environment Minister Rona Ambrose probably wouldn’t know a gannet if it landed on her head.
That’s unfortunate because if she had a better appreciation for gannets and other seabirds that inhabit this province’s coastline, she would probably be doing a great deal more to protect the...
I am responding to Bill Rowe’s column in the Dec. 2 edition of The Telegram, headlined “Next referendum on Quebecois nation will be real.”
Having moved back to Newfoundland from Quebec after an absence of almost 10 years, I feel I have a little more insight into the nature of Quebec’s polit...
