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EVENTS: In Conversation with Award-winning Journalist and Author Rob Csernyik

In late 2024, award-winning journalist Rob Csernyik brought readers across the country an important investigation into the role legalised gambling is playing in suicides across the country.
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As Innu exhibit opens in Labrador, Grand Chief says truth must come before reconciliation

Innu Nation Grand Chief Jodie Ashini says it’s disappointing to open the Innu Pakassiun exhibit without the provincial ...
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The Wakeham government doesn’t care about Indigenous Peoples

In recent years, Indigenous-led organisations like the Yellowhead Institute and Indigenous Watchdog have worked hard to track ...
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As NDP convention gets underway in St. John’s, will N.L.’s third party prioritize growing rural support?

After joining the provincial NDP, Vincent says he was quickly tapped to be a name on a ballot – first for the April 2025 ...
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The Independent’s investigation into Labrador doctor shortlisted for national journalism award

Journalists Derek Montague (left) and Justin Brake (right) led the investigation into Dr. Adolf Hamann. The Independent. Independent reporters Derek Montague and Justin Brake have been named finalists ...
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INTERVIEW: Avi Lewis says N.L. is ‘ground zero’ for the biggest challenges facing Canadians

Avi Lewis visited St. John’s March 16-17 as part of his cross-country tour ahead of the NDP leadership vote later this week. Rhea Rollmann. Avi Lewis wants to fight fascists, create a national ...
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Mother hopeful to move home as Innu work to tackle Natuashish housing crisis

Valerie Gregoire wants to return home to Natuashish with her toddler. But she needs a home first. Submitted photo. A young mother in Quebec read through the latest housing announcement in Natuashish ...
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The case for a 4-day school week

St. Anne’s School in South East Bight. Wikimedia Commons. Education policy is in a malleable state. Across Canada, governments are addressing the use of cell phones in classrooms, with policies ...
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‘Skepticism and cynicism’ marring public view of Churchill Falls and Gull Island, says researcher

Innu Nation Grand Chief Jodie Ashini (right) and her delegation attended the Aug. 17 announcement of a new proposed MOU for Churchill Falls. Kenny Sharpe. A proposed 50-year deal with Quebec and ...
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Inside the Provincial Archaeology Office’s theory that Europeans inhabited Labrador before Innu

Richard Nuna and Edmund Benuen excavate an old Innu camping site at Amatshuatakan, 1993. Courtesy Stephen Loring. A veteran archaeologist whose work is being disputed by Newfoundland and Labrador’s ...
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Proposed open-pit mine on Quebec-Labrador border drawing concern from Innu, Inuit

If built, rare earth minerals from Torngat Metals’ open pit mine would be transported by road to the coast near Nain (pictured above), then shipped by sea to Sept-Iles, Que. Photo: Justin Brake. A ...
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Memorial president treading in murky waters of university’s conflict of interest policy

A Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador (MUNL) professor is speaking out amid growing concern among faculty members around President Neil Bose’s role in hiring the next vice president ...