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TV | Christopher Aylward’s The Beothuk Story to air on NTV December 5

Posted on November 23, 2021
By Dillon Collins
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NTV is set to air the stirring and emotionally poignant documentary The Beothuk Story this December.
From writer, producer and director Christopher Aylward – from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador and a professor at Toronto’s Ryerson University – Aylward has spent 10 years researching the Beothuk and believes they are

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The Man In Black’s Greatest Hunt: Johnny Cash on The Rock

Posted on October 26, 2021
By Dillon Collins
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Newfoundland and Labrador’s key contribution to the life, legacy and career of The Man in Black Johnny Cash is examined on the 60th anniversary of his island excursion
The life, legacy and legend of The Man in Black Johnny Cash is one chock-full of peaks and valleys, of dramatic highs

Tags: biography, country music, documentary, hunting, Johnny Cash, Jonathan Holiff, June Carter Cash, moose, Newfoundland, Saul Holiff

Hell or Clean Water

Posted on May 16, 2021
By Dillon Collins
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Some struggles go beyond the personal. Like the one to save the planet, for example.

For Shawn Bath, an unlikely environmentalist, his Clean Harbours Initiative across Newfoundland and Labrador has seen the commercial diver haul some 15,000 pounds of garbage from the depths of our island’s harborus. You’d think

Tags: conservation, doc, documentary, local doc, NL, ocean, pollution, sea