Halifax Media Co-op reporter Miles Howe and Annie Clair of Elsipogtog First Nation are in Newfoundland to launch Howe's new book, "Debriefing Elsipogtog", and share their experiences from the frontlines of New Brunswick's anti-fracking movement.
Amid concerns around the potential for hydraulic fracturing to be permitted in the province, the leader of the official opposition says if his party forms government in the fall election the controversial method of oil extraction won’t happen without the approval of local residents and communities.
As mediation talks continue in a class action lawsuit against the Government of Canada for its failure to recognize and take responsibility for N.L. residential school survivors, observers say the recently released Truth and Reconciliation report offers people in this province and across Canada an opportunity to pursue a meaningful course of action to repair the relationship between settlers and Indigenous Peoples.
Evidence of oil leaking into Port au Port Bay on Newfoundland's west coast has intensified ongoing debate surrounding controversial oil development in this province and how it is impacting vulnerable ecosystems like the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Between the provincial government's April 30 funding cuts to Memorial University and a July 10 MUN Board of Regents vote that could see significant tuition and residence fee increases for many students, a conversation is emerging about the whole reason the university exists in the first place.
With youth homelessness rates higher than the national average and growing, advocates say Newfoundland and Labrador urgently needs a binding and actionable provincial plan to eliminate the problem.
The NL capital joins Blue Dot movement and becomes first municipality east of Quebec to recognize its residents' right to clean air, water and soil.
From Facebook groups to farmers’ markets and community gardens to communal food-sharing programs --- the writing’s in the dirt: food security is an important idea and a priority for people all over Newfoundland and Labrador.
Memorial University climatologist Joel Finnis answers questions from The Independent about climate change denial, how the future looks for both Newfoundland and Labrador in a warming world, fossil fuel divestment, and whether or not "ethical" oil development is possible.
The NL fracking review panel is taking submissions from residents of the province until June 1. But being heard doesn't have to mean writing a letter, say anti-fracking activists.
