http://www.thetelegram.com/images/logo/5_Telegram_daily_Logo.pnghttp://www.thetelegram.com/List of the latest articles from this category.http://www.thetelegram.com/Thu, 17 May 2012 01:56:02 -0400Thu, 17 May 2012 01:56:02 -0400enhttp://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-05-12/article-2977162/Back-of-the-book-no-more-%26mdash%3B-or-not/1Sat, 12 May 2012 08:00:10 -0400Tourism guides published about this region of Canada (including my own guide, I add with humility) teach travellers and others that if you’re interested in Labrador, you have to flip all the way to the back of the book to learn about it — or at least to the end of the chapter that deals with ...http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-05-12/article-2977162/Back-of-the-book-no-more-%26mdash%3B-or-not/1newsroom@thewesternstar.comColumnshttp://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-05-12/article-2977162/Back-of-the-book-no-more-%26mdash%3B-or-not/1http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-05-05/article-2971051/This-one-all-goes-to-taxes/1Sat, 05 May 2012 08:00:00 -0400T4. T4a. T5. T5a? Where’s the T5a? Oh, there isn’t one.Back to Line 12, then, on Chart A of the Statement of Business or Professional Activities, collate that to Line 9925 in Area B on Page 4 (of 5) on the same statement, Line 11 in Step 2 for the Northern Residents Deductions and Line 5 of ...http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-05-05/article-2971051/This-one-all-goes-to-taxes/1newsroom@thewesternstar.comColumnshttp://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-05-05/article-2971051/This-one-all-goes-to-taxes/1http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-04-28/article-2966130/Wagering-against-the-wilderness/1Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:33:27 -0400Dear Ed Martin, please seek help for your gambling addiction before you bankrupt the province and make the Labrador woods a nasty place. Please try to control your impulse to throw tens of millions of dollars into a high-risk wager on whether you can make any money at all on a hydro megaproject ...http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-04-28/article-2966130/Wagering-against-the-wilderness/1newsroom@thewesternstar.comColumnshttp://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-04-28/article-2966130/Wagering-against-the-wilderness/1http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-04-21/article-2960234/Hello%2C-welcome-and-goodbye/1Sat, 21 Apr 2012 07:50:24 -0400A little over two dozen people stood or sat in small clusters around several tables in the brightly lit community hall. More than half were local women, men and children from both Sheshatshiu and North West River, who were there to welcome 11 youth freshly arrived, the last in a line of more ...http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-04-21/article-2960234/Hello%2C-welcome-and-goodbye/1newsroom@thewesternstar.comColumnshttp://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-04-21/article-2960234/Hello%2C-welcome-and-goodbye/1http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-04-14/article-2954818/Springtime-snow-job-alert/1Sat, 14 Apr 2012 09:36:09 -0400Going outside in Labrador these days, walking the countryside or driving the roads has become a big wet sloppy pain. Everywhere else in Canada - indeed, everywhere else in the Northern Hemisphere - it looks like spring arrived weeks ago after a mild winter. What snow there was is now only a ...http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-04-14/article-2954818/Springtime-snow-job-alert/1newsroom@thewesternstar.comColumnshttp://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-04-14/article-2954818/Springtime-snow-job-alert/1http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-04-07/article-2949688/Third-time-gone/1Sat, 07 Apr 2012 09:14:47 -0400Katimavik has never stood a chance against a federal Conservative government, Progressive or otherwise. The demise of the 35-year-old volunteer youth program was guaranteed the moment Stephen Harper squeaked into a majority in the House of Commons. He's not the first blue prime minister to try ...http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-04-07/article-2949688/Third-time-gone/1newsroom@thewesternstar.comColumnshttp://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-04-07/article-2949688/Third-time-gone/1http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-03-31/article-2944228/One-chamber-now-or-both-later/1Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:02:46 -0400The Senate may be broken, but it's the House of Commons that's out of control. Despite appearances to the contrary, Canada's upper chamber of Parliament is functioning more or less as designed, if not altogether as intended. From its beginnings, the Senate has fairly adequately conducted its ...http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-03-31/article-2944228/One-chamber-now-or-both-later/1newsroom@thewesternstar.comColumnshttp://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-03-31/article-2944228/One-chamber-now-or-both-later/1http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-03-24/article-2938426/A-karmic-lesson-in-Internet-fraud/1Sat, 24 Mar 2012 09:57:31 -0400 Call it weird karma: my gullibility saved me from my own neglectfulness and in return my neglectfulness saved me from my gullibility. It started a week ago. I was surfing the Internet, heading no particular direction, when somewhere I pressed the wrong button. It flung a door to my computer ...http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-03-24/article-2938426/A-karmic-lesson-in-Internet-fraud/1newsroom@thewesternstar.comColumnshttp://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-03-24/article-2938426/A-karmic-lesson-in-Internet-fraud/1http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-03-17/article-2930871/Change-is-better-than-a-rest/1Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:33:02 -0400 "The answer is no." Ottawa has spoken. There will be no Burton Winters Search and Rescue Centre in Labrador. The Department of National Defence will, from now on, allow its SAR techs to find out if a previously ignored cry for help is still in effect, but no new search and rescue equipment ...http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-03-17/article-2930871/Change-is-better-than-a-rest/1newsroom@thewesternstar.comColumnshttp://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-03-17/article-2930871/Change-is-better-than-a-rest/1http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-03-10/article-2924132/Voter-scams-and-Conservative-fairy-tales/1Sat, 10 Mar 2012 09:19:54 -0500 Labrador has been left out again, a friend lamented the other day. Nobody here, he complained with mock disappointment, got any fraudulent robocalls in the last federal election. It's true. Labrador seems to have escaped a nearly nation-wide voting scandal. All over the country, voters ...http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-03-10/article-2924132/Voter-scams-and-Conservative-fairy-tales/1newsroom@thewesternstar.comColumnshttp://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-03-10/article-2924132/Voter-scams-and-Conservative-fairy-tales/1http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-03-03/article-2914679/Frozen-until-spring---or-summer/1Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:31:47 -0500 The axe head and much of the handle was encrusted with ice, doubling its weight in my hands, but as long as the blade remained free, I kept chopping to keep a stream of water running across a frozen lake to fill a frozen reservoir. My mittens and arms, my boots and legs were similarly ...http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-03-03/article-2914679/Frozen-until-spring---or-summer/1newsroom@thewesternstar.comColumnshttp://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-03-03/article-2914679/Frozen-until-spring---or-summer/1http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-02-25/article-2907367/Only-if-you-dont-need-it/1Sat, 25 Feb 2012 09:46:07 -0500 This debtor I know - let's call him Hank. This debtor, Hank, hates being in debt. He's not in as deep as other people he knows, but he still can't dig his way out. He bought a home, got married, bought another home and then purchased two lemons in a row before discovering that payments on ...http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-02-25/article-2907367/Only-if-you-dont-need-it/1newsroom@thewesternstar.comColumnshttp://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-02-25/article-2907367/Only-if-you-dont-need-it/1http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-02-18/article-2899427/Tinkering-wont-save-lives/1Sat, 18 Feb 2012 09:34:53 -0500 In the aftermath of the failure of Canada's search and rescue service to save the life of a lost boy in Labrador, federal government officials have raised themselves on their hind legs and vowed to ... well, to tinker with the protocols. That's all they can do without admitting that the ...http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-02-18/article-2899427/Tinkering-wont-save-lives/1newsroom@thewesternstar.comColumnshttp://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-02-18/article-2899427/Tinkering-wont-save-lives/1http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-02-11/article-2892991/Taking-hope-out-of-the-equation/1Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:28:43 -0500 The news was local, but it briefly went national. A snowmobile trail groomer crossing previously safe ice on the Terrington Basin broke through to open water and sank. The driver and passenger managed to escape with only seconds to spare. The news was, of course, of great interest in ...http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-02-11/article-2892991/Taking-hope-out-of-the-equation/1newsroom@thewesternstar.comColumnshttp://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-02-11/article-2892991/Taking-hope-out-of-the-equation/1http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-02-04/article-2885981/The-corpse-dances-at-midnight/1Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:39:05 -0500 Creak, creak, creak ... rattle, rattle, rattle ... snap! Screeeeeeech ... kerplunk! Hear that? That's the sound of the wheels once again falling off the Newfoundland government's 30-year-old Lower Churchill campaign bus. The noise grew quite loud last week when this province's energy ...http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-02-04/article-2885981/The-corpse-dances-at-midnight/1newsroom@thewesternstar.comColumnshttp://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-02-04/article-2885981/The-corpse-dances-at-midnight/1http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-01-28/article-2878887/Wallowing-in-a-winter-wonderland/1Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:35:22 -0500Sometimes strangers look like friends. That is to say, appearances can deceive. People north of the Strait of Belle Isle are looking out their windows these days and saying, "Finally! We're getting a real Labrador winter." The weather has dealt mildly with most of the Ungava Peninsula for ...http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-01-28/article-2878887/Wallowing-in-a-winter-wonderland/1newsroom@thewesternstar.comColumnshttp://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-01-28/article-2878887/Wallowing-in-a-winter-wonderland/1http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-01-21/article-2870418/Thanks-to-the-kindness-of-strangers/1Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:59:22 -0500 At first, I thought I'd run out of gas. The engine of my old Yamaha Bravo was rumbling over fine for an hour or so as I sped through the woods to my cabin on a clear, frigid day. But then, on the way back, it suddenly died with a guttural moan. The fuel tank looked empty, so I refilled it ...http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-01-21/article-2870418/Thanks-to-the-kindness-of-strangers/1newsroom@thewesternstar.comColumnshttp://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-01-21/article-2870418/Thanks-to-the-kindness-of-strangers/1http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-01-14/article-2864353/The-brilliant-spark-of-dissension/1Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:33:03 -0500 This month, the people of Sheshatshiu are being required to do something many haven't done in a long, long time: pay their electricity bills. A great number of Hydro customers in this Labrador Innu community have not paid a cent for their power consumption since 1992. Let's let Clyde ...http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-01-14/article-2864353/The-brilliant-spark-of-dissension/1newsroom@thewesternstar.comColumnshttp://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-01-14/article-2864353/The-brilliant-spark-of-dissension/1http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-01-07/article-2857099/One-out-of-two-aint-bad/1Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:29:29 -0500 The year 2012 is a whole week old, and so far I've broken only five of my 12 annual resolutions. Well, six now, since No. 4 was to stop bragging about non-achievements. I make this resolution every year, but it rarely lasts a week. Last year, I broke it the very first day by boasting that I ...http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-01-07/article-2857099/One-out-of-two-aint-bad/1newsroom@thewesternstar.comColumnshttp://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2012-01-07/article-2857099/One-out-of-two-aint-bad/1http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2011-12-31/article-2851175/Number-one-and-number-two/1Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:21:02 -0500 I like to brag about my cabin. And why not? I designed it myself and largely built it myself, using materials either cut from the surrounding forest or recycled from old, torn-down houses. I think it looks beautiful, even in its unfinished state, and I've been displaying my pride online ...http://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2011-12-31/article-2851175/Number-one-and-number-two/1newsroom@thewesternstar.comColumnshttp://www.thetelegram.com/Opinion/Columns/2011-12-31/article-2851175/Number-one-and-number-two/1