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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
4 min read - EntertainmentCBC
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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Ottawa to force banks to call carbon rebate a carbon rebate in direct deposits
OTTAWA — Canadian banks that refuse to identify the carbon rebate by name when doing direct deposits are forcing the government to change the law to make them do it, says Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault. Guilbeault is taking the stand after Tuesday's federal budget promised to amend the Financial Administration Act so government payments accepted for deposit at Canadian banks will carry whatever title the government wants. "The fact that they haven't been doing it now for many years led u
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Anglers lament lack of parking at boat launches
Fishing charter captain Jon Bondy says he sometimes has to get up at 3 a.m. to get a good parking spot at the LaSalle Landing park on LaSalle's waterfront if he wants to launch his boat there.He says the municipality does not have enough parking spots to accommodate all the hundreds of walleye anglers who descend on the area this time of year."If you go to Sandusky, Ohio, you go to Michigan and you look at their facilities, they're booming. There's plenty of parking and this county has done an e
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City of Windsor joins London, Hamilton in "F" grades in fiscal transparency
If you've felt like municipal finances were a bit hard to follow, it's not just you: According to a new report from an independent think tank, the City of Windsor gets a "F" grade on financial and fiscal transparency.But the City of Windsor's treasurer says she takes issue with the failing score and the way it was determined. The report from the C.D. Howe Institute, released Thursday, looks at the financial transparency of 32 major Canadian municipalities. Windsor, along with Hamilton, Ont. and
5 min read - BusinessCBC
Plan to revamp downtown Ottawa block sparks debate over intensification
Kevin Gosselin is one of the residents of 178 Nepean who says he won't leave despite being asked to do so by the building's owner, which wants to redevelop the area with a roughly nine-storey residential tower with retail space on the ground floor. The project has not been approved by city councillors. (Guy Quenneville/CBC)A proposed redevelopment of a downtown Ottawa block is sparking a debate over the merits of intensification, with tenants feeling pushed to the side and the owner saying the p
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