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Tabusintac fishermen fight for dredging to clear 'dangerous channel'
On a cloudy April afternoon, Weldon Harding is scanning the waters of Tabusintac Bay, in northeastern New Brunswick, from the back of a lobster fishing boat. He points out a long sandbar, indicating the start of a shallow channel to enter and exit the harbour."It's narrow, it's shallow and if you come in and it's rough, you hit the bottom and the next wave takes you and sinks you."As the boat passes near the gully at high tide, water levels on the marine depth sounder dip to just above one-and-a
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Province paid more than $2.5M for travel nurses to work long-term care homes
Travel nurses brought in to work in long-term care in 2022 earned two-to-three times more than their New Brunswick-based colleagues, the province says.Minister of Social Development Jill Green told a legislative committee Thursday that long-term care homes were in an emergency situation at the time the department signed contracts totalling just over $2.5 million with two private companies. Toronto-based Canadian Health Labs received almost all of that money to provide 55 staff, from February to
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VideoS.Korean and U.S air forces hold joint air drills
The South Korean and U.S. air forces held joint air drills in Gunsan, South Korea on Friday, where they practiced ways to detect and counter enemy threats.
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MUN faculty pushing back against vote to hire private headhunting firm in search of school's next president
Memorial University faculty are questioning the university's choice to hire a private headhunting firm to acquire the school's next president, saying the choice to outsource the hiring process offers little value to the institution.The presidential hiring committee's decision to issue tenders for a private recruitment agency comes a year after CBC News reported former president Vianne Timmons had been removed from her role in the wake of questions about her claims to Indigenous ancestry.A recrui
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Quiet on the set: Slow start to film production in N.L. no reason to panic, leader says
In recent years, Newfoundland and Labrador has emerged as a thriving hub for the film and television industry, with notable productions like Peter Pan & Wendy, Son of a Critch, Hudson & Rex, Astrid and Lilly Save the World and Frontier, among others, being produced in the province.However, as the summer production season draws closer,things seem conspicuously quiet. But Laura Churchill, chief executive officer of PictureNL, formerly the Newfoundland and Labrador Film Development Corp., says peop
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'Absolutely did not happen': Robert Regular denies sexual assault allegations
Well-known businessman and lawyer Robert Regular took the stand in his own defence Thursday during a trial that's heard testimony he sexually assaulted a woman several times, including when she was a child.Speaking quietly and in front of family and supporters, Regular, 72, strongly denied the allegations against him."That absolutely did not happen," Regular said when asked by his lawyer Jerome Kennedy if he had groped the complainant when she was 12.Regular testified he took on the complainants
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In the news today: New attempt to save stranded orca
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Rescue team gears up for new attempt to save orca A large seine fishing vessel capable of casting a net strong enough to hold a nearly 700-kilogram killer whale calf has arrived in Zeballos, B.C., to participate in the latest attempt to rescue the young orca stranded in a remote tidal lagoon. The flat-bottom aluminum vessel has a built-in crane-like device for lifting heavy ne
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