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Brooklyn Volunteer Fire Department Chief Brett Tetanish packs up some new gear the department recently received along with two rescue boats.  
Jason Malloy

Protecting communities: Province invests in boats, equipment, training for Brooklyn, N.S., firefighters

Jason Malloy · Lead editor Annapolis Valley Register |Updated 1 hour ago |4 min read Premium content

Brooklyn firefighters wanted to do more when torrential flooding occurred in their community in July 2023. But they were limited by the equipment and training they had for swiftwater rescues. Those limitations no longer exist after the Department of ...

(From left) Latvian ambassador Kaspars Ozoliņš, Lithuanian ambassador Darius Skusevičius and Estonian ambassador Margus Rava visited Happy Valley-Goose Bay and St. John's. Sanuda Ranawake • The Telegram

Ambassadors from Baltic nations Lithuania, Lativa, Estonia visit St. John's, Goose Bay airbase

Sanuda Ranawake Local Journalism Initiative Reporter · Local Journalism Initiative Reporter |Updated 2 hours ago |4 min read

The ambassadors from Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania are in Newfoundland and Labrador this week. The trio toured Labrador – which involved a visit to 5 Wing Goose Bay – followed by a trip to St. John’s, which included an engagement at Memorial ...

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‘Emotionally I have been broken,’ said N.L. social worker assaulted by a teen she was working with

Diane Crocker · Multimedia Journalist |Updated 3 hours ago |5 min read Premium content

A different person, no longer trusting and no longer carefree, is how a social worker who was brutally beaten by a youth at an individualized living arrangement on the west coast now describes herself. “Emotionally I have been broken,” the woman said ...

Joseph Henry Denny of Eskasoni died Monday. He is being remembered by family, friends, colleagues and community members as a leader, mentor and pioneer in local health. CONTRIBUTED/BETHANY CREMO-OAKLEY

Remembering Joseph Henry Denny of Eskasoni, a leader in addiction services

Mitchell Ferguson · Local Journalism Initiative Reporter |Updated 3 hours ago |7 min read

The community of Eskasoni is mourning the loss of Joseph Henry Denny, a leader in addiction recovery. Denny died on Monday at the age of 80. He was foundational in providing addiction recovery services for Mi'kmaw people across the Atlantic region.

Halifax's Syrian community is mourning the death of Ahmad Maher Al Marrach, 16. The boy used to pray at the Ummah Masjid and Community Centre on Chebucto Road in Halifax.

Halifax Muslims mourn smiling teen, ‘are scared for their children’

Andrew Rankin · Multimedia Journalist |Updated 3 hours ago |3 min read Premium content

He had a scooter, smiled a lot and asked a lot of questions. “He was like any other healthy child, he was enjoying life,” Hanaa Rashid said. Rashid — head of the Atlantic Muslim Resource Centre — would sometimes see the boy praying at the Ummah ...

Construction on the final phase of the Team Gushue Highway has been delayed by a couple of months. Keith Gosse/The Telegram

Team Gushue Highway completion held up by several factors, including bureaucracy

Evan Careen · Multimedia journalist |Updated 3 hours ago |3 min read Premium content

The final phase of the Team Gushue Highway construction is behind schedule and, according to documents obtained by The Telegram through an access to information request, the federal government appears to be part of what is holding it up. In a March ...

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A school of Mackerel, feed along the waterfront in Halifax Monday September 18, 2017.

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Mackerel bait fishery opening in Atlantic Canada ‘a slap in the face,’ says Newfoundland and Labrador harvesters’ union

Gary Kean |Updated 14 hours ago |4 min read Premium content

The federal government labels it a good news story, but not everyone is happy about news of a mackerel bait fishery opening this spring. During a virtual press conference on Thursday, April 25, Fisheries, Oceans and Canadian Coast Guard Minister ...

Housing Minister Fred Hutton. -Juanita Mercer/The Telegram file photo

Schrödinger's House (of Assembly) cat: N.L. shelter standards expected by June

Juanita Mercer · Multi-media journalist |Updated 4 hours ago |5 min read Premium content

Politicians don’t usually spend a great deal of time fussing over physics, but it did come up briefly in the provincial legislature on Thursday. It was clear that not all of the MHAs were familiar with Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger ...

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Supreme Court of Canada to hear travel ban appeal of Newfoundlander

SaltWire Network |Updated 4 hours ago |2 min read Premium content

The Supreme Court of Canada announced Thursday, April 25, it has granted leave to hear an appeal connected with a COVID-19 related travel ban put in place in Newfoundland and Labrador during the pandemic. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association ...

Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre watches as Souls Harbour Rescue Mission cook Scott Anderson makes some turkey soup for people attending Poilievre's tour stop in Sydney Mines on Thursday. IAN NATHANSON/CAPE BRETON POST

Conservative Leader Poilievre keeps calm, carries on with 'Axe the Tax' tour at Cape Breton stops

Ian Nathanson · Multimedia journalist |Updated 15 hours ago |7 min read Premium content

SYDNEY MINES, N.S. — Pierre Poilievre’s visit to the Souls Harbour Rescue Mission on Thursday was a relatively conservative stopover in comparison to reports of his visit to an anti-carbon tax convoy close to the New Brunswick-Nova Scotia border ...

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