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Newfoundland Chocolate Company: Make Life Sweet

Posted on June 21, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Business, Food & Drink, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Web Exclusives

Christina Dove of the Newfoundland Chocolate Company shares how the family’s passion for sweets came from ‘Poppy’, and how giving back is where it’s at
One visit to the Newfoundland Chocolate Company’s Torbay Road location – which also just happens to be a café and chocolate factory besides hosting a

Tags: candy, chocolate, donation, local business, Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland Chocolate Company, Ukraine

JIM FURLONG | Good Guys Don’t Always Win

Posted on June 17, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on Column, From The Archives, Politics, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

*Originally published in our June 12-18, 2022 issue
The race does not always go to the swiftest or so we are told in Ecclesiastes. The cold reality is that it usually does and smart money bets it that way.
Those words are a grim reminder that the bloody war in

Tags: column, history, Jim Furlong, op-ed, staff blog, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, war, Winston Churchill

Come one, come all

Posted on June 8, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Entertainment, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Made Right Here, Music, Staff Blog, TV, Web Exclusives

The premier of Newfoundland Labrador, Dr. Andrew Furey, explains why there’s never been a better time to roll out the welcome mat
Not long after their Royal Highnesses, Prince Charles and wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, touched down in St. John’s to began a three-day Canadian tour, The Herald

Tags: Come home year, come home year 2022, Dr. Andrew Furey, Premier Furey, premier of Newfoundland Labrador, Ukraine

PAM PARDY | Stand on Guard For All

Posted on May 31, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Column, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Politics, Web Exclusives

*Originally published in our May 29-June 4, 2022 issue
At one recent Newfoundland Growlers hockey game, announcer Chris Ballard paused to welcome some newcomers to our province who had also been invited to the game that night.
Following the formal introduction, those gathered to cheer on the home team stood

Tags: column, kindness, Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland Growlers, op-ed, Pam Pardy, Putin, refugees, Russia, sports, Ukraine, war

JIM FURLONG | The Great Moral Question

Posted on April 1, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on From The Archives, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

*Originally published in our March 27-April 2, 2022 issue
This is an important time for our world. This is serious business. We are going to find out something about ourselves here on earth over the next weeks and months.
There’s emerging from the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine a deep

Tags: column, conflict, Jim Furlong, op-ed, Politics, Russia, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, war

JIM FURLONG | New Phrases for History

Posted on March 26, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on From The Archives, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

The wonders of the language and the directions it takes. Over the years and over the decades I have watched words and phrases pop-up in the world of journalism. They are words everyone seems to latch on to.
The latest come to us from the horror that’s the still a

Tags: conflict, Jim Furlong, op-ed, Putin, Russia, terror, Ukraine, war

JIM FURLONG | Bouncy Castles & Perspective

Posted on March 18, 2022
By Jim Furlong
on From The Archives, Local, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

It’s amazing how the news cycle changes and relentlessly rolls on. That which is new now was not a couple of weeks ago. We watch the agony of Ukraine and its people, and it knocks all other stories off the front pages of all the newspapers and out of the

Tags: column, conflict, Jim Furlong, op-ed, perspective, Putin, Reflections, Russia, Ukraine, war

PAM PARDY | Nothing to Laugh At

Posted on March 14, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on From The Archives, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

*Column appeared in our March 13-19, 2021 issue
When times are toughest, try a little humour. Comedy eases tense situations, including living through the unknowns of COVID-19. During the early days of the pandemic, my daughter and I ended each day with an episode or two of The Office so

Tags: battle, column, conflict, genocide, op-ed, Pam Pardy, Putin, Russia, terror, Ukraine, war, Zelenskyy