• Old stones and smoking cones

  May 16, 2011 - 9 h 36

  The strain on the faces of the pretty young girls shows the hard effort of their labours, reveals the cost of their endurance and displays in great detail the pain of their suffering.

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• Tierra del Fuego of the waistline

  March 21, 2011 - 10 h 40

  A mother – it goes without saying – can have a profound effect on a person's life. Sometimes it takes a decade or two of careful nurturing to mold a child into an adult, but often a single sentence will do the job, a single remark that...

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• Harper hates happy, hard-working families

  February 28, 2011 - 10 h 58

  “Canada is one of the beautiful places in the world.”

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• Artificial housing shortage making the poor suffer

  February 21, 2011 - 11 h 03

  The operation was quickly executed with military efficiency: A large, but empty block of apartments stood beside a grassy field on 5 Wing Goose Bay, but as autumn arrived (before any snow fell) men and equipment spent a little over a week tearing...

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• Protecting humans in a snowmobile world

  February 13, 2011 - 14 h 39

  Screams that sound like demented mating calls echo across the moonlit snowscape. They can be heard from far away over hills and frozen lakes. They circle the towns through dark forests, slipping quickly between houses and down streets, wailing and...

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• Caribou stew, with a side order of guilt

  February 7, 2011 - 12 h 18

  Anyone who thinks little is being done to protect eastern Canada’s endangered caribou herds hasn’t been for a meal in a Labrador restaurant lately.

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• A squandered chance for labour peace

  January 17, 2011 - 10 h 26

  For one brief moment it actually looked like the now 74-week-old Voisey’s Bay strike could finally come to an end. Unfortunately, it was just wishful thinking.

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• Bonehead businesses and other awards

  January 10, 2011 - 15 h 41

  This being January, excited Labradorians are gathering in streets all over the region, eagerly waiting to hear the shortlist for the 37th annual Closed-for-Lunch Award.

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• Worst case scenario

  December 28, 2010 - 13 h 33

  Labrador is a winter country. It has lush springs, brilliant summers and crisp autumns, but they are the short seasons, fleeting and weak in the face of the long cold months. When the lakes, rivers and seas all freeze, when snow lies deep on the...

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• Where do you stand?

  December 20, 2010 - 11 h 01

  Did everybody study?

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Other news

• December 6, 2010 Long live the Queen
• November 15, 2010 Or what’s a government for?
• October 18, 2010 There ain’t no new dawn a-risen’
• October 4, 2010 The benefits of just being yourself
• September 27, 2010 Another lesson in climate change
• August 30, 2010 Improving Labrador for Nalcor’s benefit
• August 23, 2010 Taking care of the care homes
• August 16, 2010 Ridiculously too little, decades too late
• July 27, 2010 A glimpse into a future of shortages