By: Nick Travis
Newfoundland’s favourite spot for all things Sci-Fi, cosplay and pop culture, Sci-Fi on the Rock may be delayed due to COVID-19, but don’t count them out!
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This fantastical event will be moving from the Spring to Fall, with events starting September 4th and continuing into the
Sharing tried and true recipes with generous helpings of TLC, Bonita Hussey dives into her home-grown cooking web series, Bonita’s Kitchen.
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Bonita Hussey would be the first to tell you she had no illusions of becoming a viral YouTube star.
Yet, with over 39,000 subscribers, 240 videos and counting
St. John’s-born doctor Siobhan Duff battles the novel coronavirus in the Unites States, a country still bracing for the worst
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Siobhan Duff is scared. The St. John’s native is practicing family medicine in Chattanooga, Tennessee and is bracing for a tsunami of COVID-19 cases as the virus unleashes its fury
One of the more interesting aspects of the current Corona virus crisis is the odd juxtaposition of facts in our medically and socially realigned world. Some things are the same and some are very much NOT the same.
In need of constants
This morning I was down to the ocean
President of the Registered Nurses’ Union of Newfoundland & Labrador Debbie Forward salutes essential workers and highlights the role we all play in flattening the Covid-curve
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For many of us, time seems to stand still during this pandemic. Life goes on around us, albeit at a glacial pace, and we
Anglican cleric and poet John Donne used that phrase in a sermon, referring to church bells signifying a death. “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent …. Any man’s death diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind … therefore never
While the responsibility lies with all of us when it comes to staying home to help stop the spread of COVID-19 in Newfoundland and Labrador, there’s folks on the frontlines who don’t have that same luxury
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While many Newfoundlander and Labradorians get to stay home during this pandemic, others
By: Nick Travis
The Marriage of Mary and Christopher Pratt: The unauthorized biography of Newfoundland & Labrador’s most famous artist couple and the rivalry that drove them
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Carol Bishop-Gwyn always had a knack for the role of biographer. Her first book, a biography of National Ballet of Canada founder
A former Bell Island native is getting creative in the real estate business in Fort Saskatchewan, asking each homeowner proudly; ‘‘Any Mummers ‘Loud in?’
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Kristy Brien, a real estate agent with RE/MAX, moved from her Bell Island home to Alberta six years ago with her military husband. First posted
A friend asked if my folks wanted a brace of rabbits. When you are the daughter of a daughter of a farmer and the daughter of a son of a fishermen, you are into it all.
I’ve seen a snare or two in my day. I’ve also helped pull the
One Paradise woman makes it her life’s calling to bring out, and capture, the best in others
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Amanda Roberts of Amanda Roberts Photography opens by saying she’s always had a keen eye when it comes to seeing the beauty in almost everything.
From her cats to her kids, to
Polio kind of eased into the public consciousness in the summer of 1959 in Newfoundland. We were aware of it, but it didn’t dominate our lives. It broke out that year in Trinity Bay in a small group of connected families that had not been vaccinated with the Salk vaccine.