Bad things happen to good people, but when it comes to the kindness and generosity demonstrated from the kind hearts of Newfoundlanders, nothing is impossible
Sheila McCarthy’s heart was broken. As a grandmother, seeing her grandchildren happy is her number one priority, especially around their birthday. It crushed her when
The Newfoundland Herald offers up seminal albums from our very own to help ease the sombre mood of social-isolation during COVID-19
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COVID-19 is a life event. We don’t get many of these big kind of seminal worldwide moments we all share a piece of. But it’s here and we Newfoundlanders
I’m hardly as anal and, in my humble opinion, I’m way more chill with my daughter than I ever was with my first born son. Perhaps because I’ve already raised one kid to adulthood and he survived, mostly, fully intact – beyond a horrible scar I left on his little
In this, our time of greatest need, Reverend Bill Strong of St. Peter’s Anglican Church in Upper Gullies shares a message of hope
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Times are hard. Realities and routines we’ve all come to depend and rely on, from holding down a job and running errands to visiting family or hosting a
There are several advantages to being a senior citizen. The Coronavirus certainly is not one of them. When you hear all the warnings it certainly does “give you pause.” Once upon a time a couple of aspirin and a hot toddy would haul you through any medical unpleasantness that might
When my daughter and I left for Orlando on March 6th, our greatest worry was getting out of Newfoundland before a pending snow storm I feared may ground flights.
With Coronavirus (COVID-19) being somewhat in the news, we packed a baggie of Lysol wipes to wipe down our plane seats
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