Newfoundland and Labrador

Depopulation and a youth exodus have left seats on local governments open for acclamation—if anyone wants to take them

How a warmer climate caused icebergs to block a scientific mission to Hudson Bay

The animals once thrived in the region, prompting some locals to mull over a tricky problem: how to bring them back

Parents are schooling kids in the risks posed by ursine visitors. Good idea, because the bears may soon be arriving in greater numbers.

Battling against bans and bad press over the seal hunt, Bernie Halloran is single-handedly trying to revive Canada’s commercial seal business

Facing a huge deficit, Newfoundland and Labrador chose to heap taxes and levies on its labour force—and send a dire message to its young people

Newfoundland’s new Liberal government is facing a Greece-like mountain of red ink—and has no clear path to tackle it

You’re invited into the kitchen of award-winning St. John’s restaurant Raymonds, where chef Jeremy Charles is cooking up a Newfoundland specialty: fresh scallops. See what it’s like to cook rustic East Coast cuisine alongside its top chef.

If you want to become an honorary Newfoundlander then you’d better get ready for a screech-in. Newfoundlander Ruby Grace provides the rundown on what the ceremony entails and why you’d better be okay with kissing a cod. Is you a screecher, me sons?

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