A team at MUN revisits a series of films that document the struggles of Fogo Island
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In 1967 filmmaker Colin Low, community worker Fred Earle and Memorial University’s Donald Snowden created a series of 27 films centred around the towns of Fogo Island in partnership with MUN’s Extension Program
(Note: the following ran in our March 29-April 4 issue, which hit stands March 23rd)
We are living in unprecedented times. That was the message from Premier Dwight Ball on Monday, March 16 as the province closed all schools, child care centres and post-secondary institutions to prevent the spread of
One of the built in defense mechanisms that comes with being a Newfoundlander and Labradorian is the ability to deflect worry and ‘real world’ concerns when the going gets tough. That’s not to say that we can’t have empathy or doubt when it comes to the global happenings that surround
The Coronavirus has proved it has not only the ability to spread rapidly around the world, but to also make this a world as we’ve never known it. Even SARS and the catastrophic and devastating events of 9/11 didn’t disrupt day to day public life to the extent COVID-19 has
For those out there who are not able to avail of friends and family members to teach old dogs new tricks, the Community Sector Council of Newfoundland and Labrador has a solution
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A registered charity established in 1976, CSC NL has created techKNOWtutors, “a project … conceived in response
We have all received those silly e-mails and phone calls trying to con us out of our money. I marvel at how people could be so gullible as to fall for those scams. When someone says “This is your Captain speaking and you have won a free cruise,” I hang
It took one terrifying scare to make some incredible changes in the life of one St. John’s man
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Bill Jeffery lost one hundred and sixty pounds in just over a year and it has, as one would expect, changed his life. While that accomplishment in itself is quite the
Bringing old school punk rock to the island with a fair share of satire and nods to pop culture, Jim Jones and the Kool-Aid Jammers break down their Instant Cult Classic
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Specializing in down and dirty, rattle your bones punk rock loaded down with healthy helpings of satire and
From avid fan to seasoned up-and-comer, Chris Dillon outlines his road from The Rock to Maritime wrestling sensation as ‘Dynamite’ Dylan Davis
St. John’s own Chris Dillon answers his phone on an unremarkable Monday morning. He’s on a bus to Toronto, a trip that can be described as a
For over two decades, the Sunday Evening Newshour has been the province’s only live, hour-long weekend newscast, providing viewers with breaking news, feature stories, community events and, of course, the all-important weather forecast. Toni Wiseman pioneered those early years when it launched in the late 1990s and was later joined