World’s largest solar-powered boat anchors in St. John’s
The MS Tûranor PlanetSolar will be in St. John's until Aug. 5.
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Media watchdog says CBC at risk of being turned into a ‘state broadcaster’
With its back to the wall, will Canada's public broadcaster stand up to a government that is tightening its grip on the network's freedom? Or should 'friends' intervene?
PHOTO ESSAY: St. John’s Pride Parade 2013
People turned out in record numbers to march in Sunday's Pride Parade in St. John's and celebrate the end of Pride Week 2013.
“The timing is right for all this to happen”
Exploding onto the North American and global music scene with a powerful, innovative sound, Aboriginal DJ collective 'A Tribe Called Red' is creating a soundtrack for the "urban Aboriginal experience" and providing inspiration for Turtle Island's civil rights movement.
In conversation with Jennifer McCreath
Newfoundland and Labrador's most outspoken trans rights activist answers some questions on St. John's Pride Week celebrations, common misunderstandings related to gender identity and sexual orientation, and the wider LGBT and transsexual rights movement.
Celebrating sexual and gender diversity
On Tuesday St. John's became the first Canadian city to raise the Trans Pride flag as part of its Pride Week celebrations, but the question remains: Are there enough colours in the spectrum to represent all the ways people identify in terms of sexual and gender orientation?
Independent journalist arrested at fracking site in New Brunswick
A Halifax Media Co-op reporter facing charges after being released from custody Thursday says he intends to continue covering the intensifying opposition to seismic testing and shale gas exploration in Kent County, led by members of Elsipogtog First Nation.
Memorialising those we lost at Beaumont Hamel
It's been almost a century since hundreds of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians were killed in the tragic battle at Beaumont Hamel on July 1, 1916. But the enormous loss from a time we were our own country still remains in people's hearts on what is otherwise celebrated as Canada Day countrywide.
Art for the common good
Organizers of a new arts and social justice festival called 'There Goes The Nayburhood' are hoping to inspire inclusion and positive change in St. John's.
Building a healthier society, one needle at a time
As the AIDS Committee of Newfoundland and Labrador announces a significant surge in the demand for clean needles by injection drug users for the second consecutive year, a local documentary opens a window to the humanism of drug addiction and harm reduction efforts in St. John's.