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We’re heading toward another Churchill Falls disaster, and we’ve been warned

Newfoundlanders and Labradorians are being bombarded with contradictory messaging around MOU with Québec; but the latest person to speak out was an insider tasked with independent oversight

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Billions for bombs, scraps for N.L.

The Carney Government’s planned military and defence spending will have impacts here at home

Broken promises and lost faith

Student life at Memorial has been deeply impacted by the university’s failed commitments to peace, justice and equity

We stand with Gaza journalists. We stand for press freedom.
Thank you Air Canada flight attendants

Why the CUPE-led flight attendants’ strike and labour victory is a win for us all

Doing the heart work: My time with Memorial’s Office of Public Engagement

Love is something we don’t talk about much in university spaces, but for those I got to know during my time at OPE, love is the driving force behind their professional trajectory

Why decades of government neglect of Nain Airport is about more than transportation

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

It’s time for a reckoning on public university education in our province

Successive Liberal governments have presided over the destruction of Memorial University

What are universities for?

Higher education has long been a public good, a vital tool for the betterment of society. Now it is being used to serve the market above all else.

Politicizing science: how quota quarrels lose sight of sustainable fishing

Doubling Northern cod catch limits ran counter to what scientists and key stakeholders called for — so what’s behind the decision?