NL Election 2021 District Focus: Terra Nova
Terra Nova has variously switched between the Liberals and PCs in the past, making this a race to watch in the last stretch of the 2021 provincial election.
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Food charity is putting a band-aid on a deadly and insidious gangrene—which corporate power and government inaction allows to fester in our communities.
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"As long as sex work is criminalized then authorities have a mandate to treat sex workers as criminals. They're oversurveilled and they’re underprotected.”
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Is corporate concentration a central part of the province’s long-term strategy for the fishery? How does that benefit Newfoundlanders and Labradorians?
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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.