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Watchdog says it can’t investigate Deloitte over use of AI in $1.6M government report

Internal emails reveal Deloitte helped craft government's response to The Independent's investigation

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Will declaring an epidemic help end gender-based violence?

Three provinces in Atlantic Canada have made formal declarations — but is that enough to quell violence against women, girls and gender-diverse people?

PCs have no plan to meet ambitious housing targets

Finance minister pins housing hopes on federal funding, says his own portfolio of rental properties doesn’t put him in a conflict of interest

Photos returned to Innu ahead of Labrador exhibit showcasing history, culture

Cultural Guardian Jodie Ashini hopes the archival photographs will help strengthen youth’s connection to Innu culture, and ultimately improve mental health

Can N.L. have oil and gas, and climate targets too?

Finance minister says yes, but ATI requests show there’s no plan for how to do both — and reveal significant unpublished emissions estimates 

Access to information: N.L. failed to make public over 1,000 responses in a single year

Province says it’s dealing with an increase in requests, but NDP leader is concerned the mounting problems may be intentional

Memorial University student union walks back plan to close radio station amid backlash

‘I wish CHMR the best,’ Memorial University Students’ Union executive says ahead of vote to defund the campus radio station

INTERVIEW: Avi Lewis says N.L. is ‘ground zero’ for the biggest challenges facing Canadians

The federal NDP candidate says socialism and economic populism are the antidote to unfettered capitalism and the ‘epic market failures’ it has brought

What a Newfoundland community can learn from B.C.’s first major LNG facility

As talk about developing an LNG export project in Newfoundland and Labrador continues, residents have questions — and the answers might be on the other side of the country

N.L. chief medical examiner has begun tracking gambling as a risk factor in suicides 

The OCME’s policy change came nearly a year after an Independent investigation into gambling-related suicides