.feature-slider{ display: none; } .form-label-float .control-label{ margin-top: -10px; font-size: 0.8125rem; } .collapse{ display: block; }

Saltwire works best with JavaScript enabled.

Log in Activate My Account Log out

app SWNews_original

Have you heard about the SaltWire News app?

SW icon for scroll

Visit SaltWire.com for more of the stories you want.

Memorial University student Julia Dicker of Nain is going to move to St. John's to do online courses, since it would be too difficult in the small Labrador town. - CONTRIBUTED

SaltWire Selects: Stories you don't want to miss

This undated transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2, also known as novel coronavirus, the virus that causes COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S.

What you need to know about COVID-19: July 9

Cindy-Turquoise-webcrop Cindy Day

Get the latest summer forecast and weather knowledge from Cindy Day

saltwire cartoonists

SaltWire's cartoonists bring heart and humour to the news.

WAYNE WRIGHT: Hang in there P.E.I., it won't be long now

Premium content

The Journal Pioneer

Published: Jan 11, 2019 at 8:27 p.m.

Updated: Jan 12, 2019 at 8 a.m.

Wayne Wright's editorial cartoon for Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. — Wayne Wright's editorial cartoon for Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. - Contributed

Journal Pioneer cartoonist Wayne Wright's editorial cartoon for Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019.

Recent Stories

Rebekah Wade is one of 80 recent graduates from Middleton Regional High. CONTRIBUTED

Class of 2020: Middleton High grads make memories under unusual circumstances

North Atlantic right whales. PHOTO COURTESY OF DFO

North Atlantic right whale now critically endangered

Left to right, Cody MacNeil, Max Moeller and Innis MacMullin are the 2020 graduates from the Rankin School of the Narrows in Iona on Cape Breton Island, NS. CONTRIBUTED

Class of 2020: Cape Breton’s Rankin School of the Narrows celebrates 3 grads

Co-founders Craig, left, and Marc Kielburger introduce Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, second from right, and his wife Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau at a WE Charity event in Ottawa in 2015.

John Ivison: We are heading for a 'Trudeau III' ethics report

Gordon Pinsent, from “The River of My Dreams: A Portrait of Gordon Pinsent,” 2016. — Contributed photo

Iconic Newfoundland and Labrador actor Gordon Pinsent about to turn 90

Yvonne Schwartz, left, and her daughter Holly Crooks pose for a photo in 2011. Crooks is concerned about her mom, who is a resident at Northwood and is only allowed one visit for 30 minutes every week and is confined to her room for most of the day. (Credit: Bianca Muller)

Woman hopes for easing of restrictions at Nova Scotia long-term care facilities

The 100 islands area on the Eastern Shore, a marine protected area. - Nick Hawkins

Canada signs on to international ocean protection target of 30 per cent by 2030

Summerside City Hall

Summerside discusses potential four-way stop for Central and Maple

Provincial officials question motorists as they enter Nova Scotia at the inbound weigh scale in Fort Lawrence early Monday. RCMP were on hand to assist provincial officials as they tighten the border as a result of the province’s state of emergency declaration. DARRELL COLE/SALTWIRE NETWORK

UPDATED: Nova Scotia RCMP charge man after compliance officer assaulted near N.S.-N.B. border

Tryon Museum will be open by appointment only this summer because of COVID-19 restrictions.

Tryon Museum announces summer schedule

Shane Pendergast, along with family member David Pendergast, will play at the ceilidh July 10 at the Irish Hall in Charlottetown.

Pendergast family, Colin Jeffrey on stage Friday at the BIS

Iconic British pop star Paul Weller surfaces with another gem in On Sunset, which embraces soul/R&B, pop, electronica, folk and orchestral pop.

DOUG GALLANT: On Sunset is Paul Weller's 15th solo album.