If there was an official start to Newfoundland’s summer music season, Lawnya Vawnya would be it. Now in its 16th year, the ...

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 ...

A note from the authors: Dear readers, we have wanted to cover this story for a long time. Given the fishing tragedies this province has endured, we acknowledge this is a difficult subject. This ...

Five Indy journalists have been nominated in four categories [L-R]: Heidi Atter, Yumna Iftikhar, Derek Montague, Justin Brake and Rhea Rollmann. Background image: AJAs/Facebook. Illustration: The ...

Ron Webb says he and other community members don’t have a choice when it comes to dealing with Labrador’s rapidly changing climate, but they must adapt. “Years ago, we would get ice of the normal five ...

This story was originally reported by The Narwhal, here. About an hour’s drive from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, the little fishing village of Fermeuse sits on the shores of a deep harbour, ...

Health and Community Services (HCS) Minister Lela Evans and Premier Tony Wakeham. On Saturday HCS said it had asked Deloitte to review the entire Health Human Resources Report, which the province paid ...

Marjorie Aunos and her son on an accessible trail at Cape Spear Lighthouse National Historic Site of Canada. Yumna Iftikhar. It’s a warm day with a light breeze — noon on a Wednesday in August. An ...

With the Canadian federal election days away, the issue of Israel’s ongoing occupation and genocide in Palestine has indelibly shaped the backdrop of the campaign. While tariffs and economic issues ...

The last few years have been marked by a number of upheavals, from the pandemic to the recent and on-going Russian invasion of Ukraine. One of the most corrosive and visible effects of this ...

The histories of Indigenous peoples across Canada have been repeatedly told and studied from a settler-colonial perspective. This is in part because the historical narrative has been informed by the ...

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