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CEO pay at record highs as workers struggle to make ends meet: report

In the report economist David Macdonald finds that while an average Canadian worker earned $65,548 in 2024—an increase of ...
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Entangled: Fragile and complex truths reflected in art

Nasim Makaremi Nia’s new exhibit tells a story of migration, transition, and identity in fantastic animal hybrids and beautifully fragile paper sculpture ...
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‘Institutional failure’: MUNL student, faculty unions respond to Delores Mullings’ departure

We must be willing to hear hard truths expressed in voices that may not sound like our own,' says faculty union leader ...
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Hit comedy series North of North makes Nunatsiavummiut ‘feel seen’

Created by Inuit filmmakers Stacey Aglok MacDonald and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, and co-produced by Northwood Entertainment and ...
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Student federation calls for investigation into racism at Memorial University following head of E.D.I. and anti-racism’s departure

The Canadian Federation of Students wants an investigation of MUNL's 'upper administration with regards to all forms of ...
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Bearing the brunt of climate change in Nunatsiavut

Ron Webb says he and other community members don’t have a choice when it comes to dealing with Labrador’s rapidly changing climate, but they must adapt. “Years ago, we would get ice of the normal five ...
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Evasion, erasure and protest: Advocates work to ensure Palestinian solidarity remains an election issue

With the Canadian federal election days away, the issue of Israel’s ongoing occupation and genocide in Palestine has indelibly shaped the backdrop of the campaign. While tariffs and economic issues ...
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Proposed open-pit mine on Quebec-Labrador border drawing concern from Innu, Inuit

If built, rare earth minerals from Torngat Metals’ open pit mine would be transported by road to the coast near Nain (pictured above), then shipped by sea to Sept-Iles, Que. Photo: Justin Brake. A ...
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Innu survivor wants former Labrador residential school building turned into a museum

This article discusses residential school experiences, which some readers may find distressing. To get to the post office in North West River, for years Joanna Michel would pass the residential school ...
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Patricia Johnson-Castle

Government underfunding and broken promises about the services Inuit would have after being relocated from Hebron to Nain are part of the airport’s legacy Reader-supported journalism for Newfoundland ...
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Deloitte breaks silence on N.L. healthcare report

Deloitte Canada headquarters in Toronto. Rayshono/Wikimedia Commons. Deloitte Canada says it “firmly stands behind the recommendations put forward” in a healthcare report it produced for the ...
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DFO ‘rolling the dice’ with cod fishery announcement, says scientist

“Ending the Northern cod moratorium is a historic milestone for Newfoundlanders and Labradorians,” said Minister of Fisheries, Oceans, and the Canadian Coast Guard Diane Lebouthillier in the ...