Opinion – Newfoundland Herald

PAM PARDY | I’m a Be-leaver

Posted on September 19, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Column, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Opinion, Staff Blog, Travel & Leisure, Web Exclusives

*Originally published in our September 18-24, 2022 issue
I’ve been privileged to meet – as well as to thank– many who work in the tourism industry throughout the province of Newfoundland & Labrador that 520-odd-thousand of us are still blessed to call home.
As these tourism angels I’ve encountered worked

Tags: column, leaving home, migration, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nicole Power, op-ed, Pam Pardy, Premier Furey, staff blog, Travel

Posted on September 14, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on Column, From The Archives, News, Opinion, Staff Blog, TV, Web Exclusives

*Originally published in our September 11-17, 2022 issue
We were in a restaurant in a hotel in Paris. It was the middle of the Republican primaries before that weird election that took Donald J. Trump to a one term presidency.
Wife and I were on a short trip to France.

Tags: America, capital riots, column, Donald Trump, MAGA, News, op-ed, Politics, president, staff blog, USA

PAM PARDY | Not Taking Any Chances

Posted on September 12, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Column, From The Archives, Local, Opinion, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

*Originally published in our September 11-17, 2022 issue
I was raised to believe in things that are not of this world. The more ‘mysterious’ the better for me and mine. My mom’s father was a bit of a character. A very religious man, he had quite a few superstitions and

Tags: aliens, column, Eddie Sheerr, NASA, Newfoundland and Labrador, NTV, op-ed, paranormal, space, staff blog

Posted on September 8, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on Column, From The Archives, History, Local, Opinion, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

Father used to tell me school days are the best days of your life. Not so say I! My school experience obviously is from a different time. There was no Kindergarten or early childcare.
We were ripped away from mummies apron strings when we were seven years old. No play

Tags: column, education, Jim Furlong, Newfoundland and Labrador, op-ed, School, staff blog

JIM FURLONG | Down a Memory Rabbit Hole

Posted on September 2, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on Column, From The Archives, History, Local, Opinion, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

*Originally published in our August 28-September 3, 2022 issue
I was down to Argentia last week. It’s completely different now and I had not been there since the naval base closed. In fact I have only been there a couple of times before.
Memory is a funny thing. When I

Tags: Aregentia, column, history, Jim Furlong, memory, Newfoundland and Labrador, op-ed, opinion, staff blog, vessel, Witless Bay

PAM PARDY | Oh! The Places You’ll Go

Posted on August 29, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Column, From The Archives, Health, Local, Opinion, Staff Blog, Travel & Leisure, Web Exclusives

*Originally published in our August 28-September 3, 2022 issue
It’s been an interesting summer, and there’s certainly been much to celebrate. My daughter turned 14 for one thing, and we have had the pleasure of spending many a day together touring the province.
We’ve had some wild mother/daughter adventures. In

Tags: column, daughter, family, memories, mother, Newfoundland and Labrador, op-ed, staff blog, Staycation, summer

Posted on August 26, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on Column, From The Archives, News, Opinion, Politics, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

*Originally published on our August 21-27, 2022 issue
I was driving out the Kenmount Road the other week and my car dropped into a pothole in the road under construction. It was of Olympic proportions. Is it my imagination, or has that road been under construction for a couple of

Tags: Africa, Calais, column, Dover, op-ed, oppressed, refugees, staff blog

JIM FURLONG | New Day Old Day

Posted on August 18, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on Column, From The Archives, History, Local, Opinion, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

*Originally published in our August 14-20, 2022 issue
It was just past five in the morning of what promised to be another lovely summer day. I was out on the deck having coffee and looking at the paper in the half light of a new day. When you are older

Tags: column, history, Jim Furlong, Newfoundland and Labrador, op-ed, staff blog, Topsail

PAM PARDY | The Years Fast Did Roll

Posted on August 15, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Entertainment, From The Archives, History, Music, Opinion, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

*Originally published in our August 14-20, 2022 issue
There’s moments in life that just stand out in each generation. For folks in their 50s and up, the moon landing in 1969 was one of the bigger events, but the passing of the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley, on

Tags: 45 years, anniversary, column, death, Elvis, Elvis Presley, legend, music, op-ed, rock n roll, staff blog

BETWEEN THE LINES | Diary of a Weather Grump

Posted on August 8, 2022
By Dillon Collins
on Column, From The Archives, Local, Opinion, Staff Blog, Travel & Leisure, Web Exclusives

Did you ever think you’d see a heat warning cancel a major event in the city of St. John’s? I can’t say I’d have it on my what-to-expect-when-expecting-2022 bingo card, but here we are, living in both the pandemic and global warming era.
Don’t believe in global warming? The 2022

Tags: column, heat, hot, humidity, Newfoundland and Labrador, op-ed, Travel, Weather