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No Safe Bet: Why Newfoundland & Labrador is Canada’s Casino Holdout

Published on August 28, 2020 in Featured/Journalism/Longread by Rob Csernyik

In 2010, when Colliers International was listing the Battery Hotel and Suites for $15 million, they dared buyers to imagine alternate usages for the property—even those that went against provincial policy. “Newfoundland is one of only two Canadian provinces that does not have a provincially approved casino,” Colliers said in a brochure. “If this highly interesting situation changes, the site is sufficiently large to accommodate a Class A casino and hotel.” “Our policy doesn’t permit casinos in the province,” then-finance minister Tom Marshall told reporters at the time. “There’s been no change in that policy.” When asked if he’d reconsider the policy if a casino application was submitted, he was unequivocal: “No.” By 2014, Marshall was premier and Charlene Johnson, then-finance minister, suggested to reporters that they might be willing to consider a good offer. Saying the government would review proposals stopped far short of saying they would be approved,…

The Doctor is In: Andrew Furey as Technocrat

Published on August 28, 2020 in Analysis/Featured/Longread by Joshua Pittman

Dr. Furey does in fact have a principled vision for Newfoundland and Labrador’s future. It is a vision that is deeply technocratic—and troublingly elitist.

Notes from the Rafters: 4 August 2020

Published on August 5, 2020 in Featured/Notes From the Rafters by Emily Deming

Hope Jamieson’s final council meeting involved a bit of blood, sweat, and tears—plus a little urine in a cup. Also: sucks to your “property values”!

Learning How to Speak

Published on July 21, 2020 in Featured by Jasmine Paul

When I moved to St. John’s I got work at a call center. Sometimes, on the other end of the line I’d hear “I’m not talking to a Newfie,” and then a dialtone.

Notes From the Rafters: 6 July, 2020

Published on July 7, 2020 in Featured/Notes From the Rafters by Emily Deming

Council is back in socially-distant session at the Bunker, and it’s as glorious as you expected.

NL CERB Clawbacks Push People into Poverty: Advocates

Published on July 3, 2020 in Featured/Journalism by Sarah Smellie

Newfoundland & Labrador will be clawing back income support from anyone who received CERB. Advocates fear this will increase poverty and homelessness.

On Corporate Ties, Andrew Furey has Nothing to Hide

Published on June 26, 2020 in Featured/Investigation/Journalism/Longread by Tom Baird

Up to now, an important aspect of Andrew Furey’s recent professional life has received almost no mention at all: his corporate board directorships.

Notes From the Rafters: 23 June, 2020

Published on June 24, 2020 in Featured/Notes From the Rafters by Emily Deming

Council is also moving to get space adjacent to Bannerman Park for a mobile food vendor to lease. Do you hear that, taco trucks?!

The Hands that Feed, Part 1: Faces of the Grocery Frontlines

Published on June 17, 2020 in Analysis/Featured/Longread by Heidi Janes

Despite the fanfare for their service, food retail employees themselves are not convinced they’re ‘recognized’ in ways that actually improve their lives.

In Newfoundland and Labrador, Black Lives Matter

Published on June 10, 2020 in Featured/Journalism by Conor McCann

“We just started last week. I feel like this is the beginning of something.”

Notes From the Rafters: 8 June 2020

Published on June 9, 2020 in Featured/Notes From the Rafters by Emily Deming

Come for the updates on garage-top hotels and greenlighting deck roofs in a heritage zone. Stay for the rare photo documentation of Cllr Wally Collins.

Thinking Outside the Crisis: A Great Big Bag of Hammers

Published on June 7, 2020 in Analysis/Beyond COVID/Featured/Longread by Russell Williams

The events triggered by Covid-19 are diagnostic of fragile social arrangements that we have lacked the ability to discuss for decades.

Thinking Outside the Crisis: Out of What Exists

Published on June 4, 2020 in Analysis/Beyond COVID/Featured by Josh Lepawsky

It’s not too late for Newfoundlanders and Labradorians to write a new, original story—our story, our future—from the ruins of the present moment.

Thinking Outside the Crisis: Throwing Off Our (Food) Chains

Published on June 3, 2020 in Analysis/Beyond COVID/Featured by Sarah Martin

The supply chain is not a series of equal links dependent on the ‘weakest link’ to operate. Rather, the middle is a choke point over the food supply.

My Skin Colour is Not a Threat

Published on June 2, 2020 in Featured/Opinion by Thandi O'Grady

It’s easy for white people to deny that racism exists in Newfoundland & Labrador. Black people in this province can’t afford to think like that.

Notes From the Rafters: Pandora’s Big Yellow Box

Published on May 26, 2020 in Featured/Notes From the Rafters by Emily Deming

Get your most outraged social media warrior face on: you have TWO WEEKS to ALL CAPS your way into Council inboxes to explain why you are pro or con the BYB.

Why NL Fishers are Protesting in a Pandemic: An Explainer

Published on May 21, 2020 in Analysis/Featured/Investigation/Longread by Jenn Thornhill Verma

The fight over the 2020 fishing season has exposed many deeply rooted problems in a crucial but troubled industry in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Thinking Outside the Crisis: Inequity and Triage

Published on May 11, 2020 in Analysis/Beyond COVID/Featured by Richard Matthews

Far from being a “great equalizer,” Covid-19 is exposing the deeper inequities in our healthcare systems and the populations they serve.

Thinking Outside the Crisis: Imagining Communities Through Data

Published on April 22, 2020 in Analysis/Beyond COVID/Featured by Samantha Breslin

The way digital information is mobilized during this pandemic highlights the politics of data—even if we often couldn’t see the data itself.

In memory of James G. Learning (1938-2020)

Published on April 18, 2020 in Featured by Jon Parsons

Labrador flags are flying at half-mast all across the Big Land to mark the passing of Jim Learning, which is only right for a man who did so much to have those flags flying high in the first place. To the people of Labrador, Jim was something like a folk hero. To the people of Newfoundland, he was an enigma, calling for the independence of a territory that few imagined could be other than an appendage of the island. To the province’s politicians, he was a subversive, a source of constant irritation, a man of the people calling out injustice with a crystal-clear voice and putting them to shame. To the province’s activists and progressives, he had a stature and “cred” that few can aspire to. It was as an activist I first knew Jim. He played no small part in activating me. In 2011 and 2012, as the Muskrat…

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