Iceberg Alley is iceberg free
Posted on July 20, 2010 in Milsuite FX liste
The ocean along Newfoundland's northeast coast is usually dotted with icebergs at this time of summer, but there are none in sight.
Spam hits N.B. hardest: report
Posted on July 16, 2010 in Milsuite FX
New Brunswick receives the most spam email of the Canadian provinces while nearby Newfoundland gets the least, according to a report from security firm Symantec.
Tags: spam, report, symantec, nearby, newfoundland
Squid gets Canada Post's stamp of approval
Posted on July 14, 2010 in Milsuite FX liste
A famous Newfoundland sea monster will soon occupy a space normally reserved for Canada's Queen.
N.L. play heads to California
Posted on July 06, 2010 in Milsuite FX
Theatre Newfoundland and Labrador is taking its production of one of the province's best-known plays south of the border.
Tags: play, production, province, south, border
Chevron's N.L. spill of drilling mud questioned
Posted on June 03, 2010 in Milsuite FX
A professor of environment studies in Ontario is raising questions about a 2007 spill of drilling mud off the coast of Newfoundland by Chevron Canada Ltd., which is currently drilling a deepwater oil well there.
Tags: drilling, spill, mud, chevron, newfoundland
Environmentalist doubts N.L. ready for oil spill
Posted on May 04, 2010 in Milsuite FX liste
An eastern Newfoundland environmentalist doubts that his home province is prepared to deal with a large offshore oil spill like the one that's threatening the environment in the Gulf of Mexico.
Tags: environmentalist, oil, spill, doubts, offshore
Fog scuppers Juno events in St. John's
Posted on April 18, 2010 in Milsuite FX
Heavy fog over Newfoundland is forcing organizers of the Junos in St. John's to consider their contingency plans.
Tags: fog, st, john, juno, organizers
Polluted N.L. sites get $10M
Posted on March 28, 2010 in Milsuite FX
The provincial government is promising to spent $10-million to clean polluted sites in central Newfoundland and northern Labrador.
Tags: polluted, sites, newfoundland, labrador, clean
Husky donates $2.5M to The Rooms in St. John's
Posted on March 10, 2010 in Milsuite FX liste
A Newfoundland and Labrador cultural institution has received a $2.5 million gift from Husky Energy, a company that operates in the province's oil industry.
Biologists spray-painting Newfoundland caribou
Posted on March 09, 2010 in Milsuite FX liste
Wildlife biologists in Newfoundland are using helicopters to spray caribou with red paint as part of an effort count of their population on the island.
Tags: biologists, newfoundland, caribou, spray, count
Canadian actress celebrates Sundance win
Posted on February 02, 2010 in Milsuite FX liste
Canadian Tatiana Maslany has made a big splash at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, after capturing a special jury prize for breakout performance in world cinema for her role as a rebellious teen in Grown Up Movie Star, by Newfoundland's Adriana Maggs.
DND, RCMP mum on UFO mystery
Posted on January 31, 2010 in Milsuite FX liste
People who saw a missile-like object soaring through the sky over a small community in Newfoundland Monday night are getting no answers about what it was, although police say they've gotten to the bottom of the mystery.
Tags: mystery, monday, newfoundland, community, night
Newfoundland director heads for Sundance festival
Posted on January 28, 2010 in Milsuite FX
Young Newfoundland filmmaker Adriana Maggs's first feature film, Grown Up Movie Star, will get five screenings at this year's Sundance Film Festival, which opens in Park City, Utah, Thursday.
Tags: festival, newfoundland, sundance, film, opens
David Blackwood paintings to find new home
Posted on December 25, 2009 in Milsuite FX liste
Two works that Newfoundland and Labrador artist David Blackwood painted almost half a century ago in his youth are being relocated after the school he created them for closed in the fall.
Olive-sided flycatcher threatened in N.L.
Posted on December 23, 2009 in Milsuite FX
The olive-sided flycatcher, a medium-sized migratory songbird, was listed Friday as a threatened species under Newfoundland and Labrador's Endangered Species Act.
Tags: species, threatened, flycatcher, olive, sided
Newfoundland bluegrass legend Rex Yetman dies
Posted on December 23, 2009 in Milsuite FX
Rex Yetman, a bluegrass pioneer and legend in Newfoundland and Labrador, has died at age 76. He was a member of Canada's first bluegrass group, the York County Boys.
Tags: bluegrass, newfoundland, rex, yetman, legend
Munro, Lyon up for Governor General's Awards
Posted on October 18, 2009 in Milsuite FX
Ontario writer Alice Munro's Too Much Happiness and Newfoundland writer Michael Crummey's Galore are among the fiction nominees for this year's Governor General's Literary Awards.
Mistaken Point fossils copied for museum displays
Posted on September 24, 2009 in Milsuite FX
Officials from the Royal Ontario Museum are working in a remote part of Newfoundland to make replicas of fossils of some of the Earth's earliest creatures.
Tags: fossils, museum, make, newfoundland, part
1949 gift to N.L. on display in St. John's
Posted on September 15, 2009 in Milsuite FX
A painting that was purchased by the government of Canada as a gift of welcome to Newfoundland when it joined the country in 1949 is part of a major display in St. John's.
N.L. doctor posted video of patient in ambulance online
Posted on July 20, 2009 in Milsuite FX liste
Two employees at Newfoundland's largest health authority and a doctor are facing disciplinary action after a video of a patient in an ambulance wound up on the Internet.
Tags: doctor, patient, ambulance, video, disciplinary