For a second time, father-and-son duo donate portion of Cain's Quest winnings | CBC News A father and son duo from central Labrador are donating some of the proceeds from winning a gruelling 3,400-kilometre snowmobile race to a hospital that treats children.

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An Impaired Driver Killed Eli’s Dad Nicholas Fong, 25, was killed by an impaired driver around 10:30 PM on Veterans Memorial Highway near Bay Roberts on March 19, 2025, a week before Eli arrived.

Jonathan Patten got wasted on drugs and killed Nick Fong in a car crash. Found guity at trial he was sentenced today. Story by Roger Bill in today's Gammy Bird. Photos by @greglocke.com l. #crime #courts #newfoundland #drugs

Easier in NS? Absolutely. Helps to have proper municipal system, higher per km population, even the shape of the province. But just putting it out there for those who think a lot about transit. (4/4)

"Inter-municipal transit would ideally connect to existing fixed-route services run by municipalities, with reasonably priced fares." ...Imagine. (3/4)

From the NS release: "New or enhanced park and ride sites could be established at key locations to enable passenger access" (2/4)

NS has issued a RFI to look at a commuter transit service connecting rural communities and HRM, looking out 100 km. Same range in NL would connect Mobile, Whitbourne, Bay Roberts and of course everything up the tip including Pouch Cove back into the heart of St. John's. (1/4)

Middle East conflict creates disproportionate inflationary pressures in Canada’s North Fuel surcharges are affecting already steep grocery prices in northern communities

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BBC to cut up to 2,000 jobs in biggest downsize in 15 years Announcement comes before Matt Brittin replaces Tim Davie as director general next month * Business live – latest updates The BBC is to cut as many as 2,000 jobs in the biggest down-sizing of the public service broadcaster in 15 years. Staff are set to be informed of the cuts, which will affect about 10% of the BBC’s 21,500 staff, at an all-staff meeting on Wednesday. Continue reading...

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N.L. watchdog flagged ‘potential billing fraud’ for travel nurse EV rentals. We have the invoices | CBC News A critical report by Newfoundland and Labrador's auditor general highlighted electric vehicle rentals charged to taxpayers by a travel nursing agency. Now, a CBC Investigates analysis of billing recor...

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Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán concedes election defeat, spelling end to his 16-year rule | CBC News Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán conceded defeat in Sunday's Hungarian election, ending his 16 years in power.

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Liberal Leader John Hogan said last year that he didn't think voters cared that much about allowing unlimited political donations from people and private companies.

"Democracy costs money. People have to get their message out there," he said.

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So cry me a river, #nlpoli. It'll get us about as much further ahead on this subject as has been achieved over more than a decade now. It's why I call us the Wild East. And I encourage everyone out there to use the system we've accepted to its fullest.

Williams' $46,900 would have been just shy of 14x the legal limit in PEI. But in NL, it was ENTIRELY WITHIN THE RULES. And you can read that as many times as you need to for it to sink in. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

How out of whack were we in NL at time we were heading into last provincial election? Well setting aside corporate and out of province donations, NS caps personal donations at, what, $5000 a calendar year per party; NB $3000 a year? PEI was $3250 and up as of Jan 1 to $3400...

The theme continued. I wrote about it in The Democracy Cookbook. So did CBC's Peter Cowan. An all-party democratic reform committee eventually came around at NL legislature. It made no progress and fell apart. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I had a student in a journalism class in Nova Scotia recently ask me why we allow it. I didn't have an answer. I think there is something to be said about the challenge in switching the script here and fostering culture of support from common person. But it's weak sauce excuse.

I always found it interesting trying to track lobbyists in NL, once we bothered starting a registration system, given people could always just sign up for the party fundraiser, or better yet a district fundraiser. If there's a little face-to-face on the golf course, what did we care? Don't be silly.

Plenty of stories on companies getting contracts after donations. But you could only place side-by-side - can't go hard and say definitively one was tied to the other. Suggestion was often just some support for democratic system, even as the support swayed to party in power. But all allowed, legal.

Not all nefarious; undermined public trust. Had stories for eg. on how firm contributions were recorded leaving lawyers and judges challenged as partisans when not.

I had a random, one-time corporate donor in Ontario tell me they did it just to support the democratic process. Made it seem like the money could have gone anywhere... 🤨🤷‍♀️ It was legal, so what do you do?

Don't forget the out-of-province dinners and other events fundraising for NL parties. The fact other provinces ban out-of-province donors and we actively have done a reversal and offered drinks for people willing to shell out is... Wonderful. Obviously no issues there.

A lot of one-time donations, with no more after one-in-generation public contracts were awarded, or something just after, with people never to donate again. Not jumping on individual names here because it's a lot of how things were recorded and what was allowed- all w/in the rules.

Was an issue through major projects like Muskrat where could see *allowed* donations from people all over, trace them as employees of firms who were the ultimate source- buying tables at party events etc. But yeah, Linda based in rich-suburb BC would be listed a donor. Just wanted to contribute lol

On political financing in N.L.: Once more, from the top ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — The topic of political financing in Newfoundland and Labrador has come up again.

There's no proper digital archive of old newspaper articles and the old Tely blogs are in the ether.. but once posted a 'story' online in 2017 where I basically just linked back to bunch of stories done in 2015, as nothing had changed. www.saltwire.com/newfoundland...

He did not break any rules. You can cry all you like over it, but elections financing has been an issue on the table in NL for a long, long time and you did nothing. And the rules are as they are. #nlpoli

This aerial by Eduardo Anizelli... I hadn't even been aware of this story. Madness. www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/p...

Carol Guzy. www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/p...

@worldpressphoto.bsky.social winners for 2026: www.worldpressphoto.org The layout is a bit confusing. Click on the headline, click on a region and then each photo is a link to the full story.

The collections are unreal, but Saher Alghorra's Witnessing Gaza... deserving of pause. www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/p...