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ST. JOHN'S -- The Newfoundland and Labrador government has voted in favour of a multi-billion dollar agreement to share energy from Labrador with Hydro-Quebec, though it passed by a thin margin.
The Newfoundland and Labrador government has voted in favour of a multi-billion dollar agreement to share energy from Labrador with Hydro-Quebec, though it passed by a thin margin. The province's 20 governing Progressive Conservatives rose in the legislature Thursday night in favour of the draft deal. One Independent member joined them. The remaining 18 members -- 15 Liberals, two New...
ST. JOHN'S -- The Newfoundland and Labrador government has voted in favour of a multi-billion dollar agreement to share energy from Labrador with Hydro-Quebec, though it passed by a thin margin.
ST. JOHN'S -- Several politicians in Newfoundland and Labrador say they won't vote in favour of a new 50-year draft agreement to share energy from Labrador with Hydro-Quebec.
Politicians in Newfoundland and Labrador are expected to vote today on whether they support a new 50-year agreement to share energy from Labrador with Hydro-Quebec. Premier Tony Wakeham opened the legislature this week for a four-day debate about the framework agreement, which includes proposals for more than $50 billion worth of new energy infrastructure along the Churchill River. The debate...
ST. JOHN'S -- Politicians in Newfoundland and Labrador are expected to vote today on whether they support a new 50-year agreement to share energy from Labrador with Hydro-Quebec.
There was turmoil in and outside the Newfoundland and Labrador legislature Monday as a four-day debate about a tentative deal to share Labrador energy with Hydro-Quebec got underway. Government member Keith Russell rose to tell his colleagues he was leaving the governing Progressive Conservatives to represent his Labrador district as an Independent. He did not explain why he was walking...
ST. JOHN'S -- There was turmoil in and outside the Newfoundland and Labrador legislature Monday as a four-day debate about a tentative deal to share Labrador energy with Hydro-Quebec got underway.
A four-day debate about a draft energy agreement with Quebec began with a member of Newfoundland and Labrador's Progressive Conservative party crossing the floor. Keith Russell told the legislature in St. John's, N.L., that he would now represent his Lake Melville district in Labrador as an Independent member, but he did not say why he was leaving the governing party...
ST. JOHN'S -- A four-day debate about a draft energy agreement with Quebec began with a member of Newfoundland and Labrador's Progressive Conservative party crossing the floor.
ST. JOHN'S -- Newfoundland and Labrador's auditor general found reports of abuse, medication errors and missing residents in the province's long-term care homes.
ST. JOHN'S -- Leaders in Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador unveiled details of an ambitious new energy plan on Monday, which Prime Minister Mark Carney described as the largest clean energy investment in North America.
Leaders in Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador unveiled details of an ambitious new energy plan on Monday, which Prime Minister Mark Carney described as the largest clean energy investment in North America. The province's utilities are eyeing up to 14,000 megawatts of new and existing hydroelectric developments in Labrador and along the Churchill River. The federal government is also pitching...
ST. JOHN'S -- Hydro utilities in Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador have reached a non-binding agreement to share energy from Labrador, with help from the federal government.
ST. JOHN'S -- Hydro utilities in Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador have reached a non-binding agreement to share energy from Labrador, with help from the federal government.
Staff at the federal Fisheries Department are worried the United States government is about to adopt legislation jeopardizing the survival of the North Atlantic right whale, according to an internal government memo. The memo was sent to senior officials in the federal department in May and released to The Canadian Press through an access to information request. It discusses a...
ST. JOHN'S -- Staff at the federal Fisheries Department are worried the United States government is about to adopt legislation jeopardizing the survival of the North Atlantic right whale, according to an internal government memo.
ST. MARY'S -- The first load of rotting, reeking fish sauce was trucked away from an abandoned factory in St. Mary's, N.L., on Tuesday, marking the beginning of the end of a decades-long fight.
ST. JOHN'S -- The Assembly of First Nations passed a motion Tuesday denouncing what the Innu Nation says is the Newfoundland and Labrador's government's reliance on a "discredited and unscientific" theory that Innu arrived in the province just 300 years ago.
ST. JOHN'S -- A group that says it represents about 6,000 Inuit in southern Labrador has launched its own fishery outside of the oversight and authorization of the federal Fisheries Department.
ST. JOHN'S -- A group of archeologists at Memorial University have voiced their support for the Innu Nation, saying the Newfoundland and Labrador government has undermined public trust and harmed Innu people.
ST. JOHN'S -- The Innu Nation in Labrador has cancelled an important cultural exhibit after it accused the provincial government of disputing the Innu's account of their own history.
ST. JOHN'S -- Hydro-Quebec fought to hide parts of letters from the 1960s showing what it offered to lure a French aluminum company to the province, including its internal comments about an energy deal with Newfoundland and Labrador.
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Tony Wakeham has invited Quebec back to the bargaining table, after a panel concluded a framework energy agreement with Hydro-Quebec was not in his province's best interests. In a report made public Tuesday, the three-person panel appointed months ago by Wakeham outlines a series of concerns with the non-binding framework agreement signed in 2024 by the...
ST. JOHN'S -- Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Tony Wakeham has invited Quebec back to the bargaining table, after a panel concluded a framework energy agreement with Hydro-Quebec was not in his province's best interests.
A panel appointed by the Newfoundland and Labrador government says a proposed energy deal with Hydro-Quebec is not in the province's best interests. In a report expected to be released Tuesday, the three-person panel outlines several concerns with the non-binding framework agreement to share power from Labrador, which was signed by the provinces' hydroelectric utilities in 2024. In particular, the...
ST. JOHN'S -- A panel appointed by the Newfoundland and Labrador government says a proposed energy deal with Hydro-Quebec is not in the province's best interests.
ST. JOHN'S -- Hydro-Quebec fought to hide decades-old correspondence about a proposed aluminum smelter, saying its details could derail ongoing energy negotiations with Newfoundland and Labrador.
ST. JOHN'S -- The Newfoundland and Labrador government is looking for someone to clean up 110 vats of rotting fish sauce left behind in a long-abandoned factory in St. Mary's, N.L.
ST. JOHN'S -- Newfoundland and Labrador's information and privacy commissioner says governments need to work together to hold big technology companies to account.
ST. JOHN'S -- A draft deal between hydroelectric utilities in Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador is set to expire Thursday, but at least one premier is keen to keep negotiating.
ST. JOHN'S -- A draft deal between hydroelectric utilities in Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador has expired, but at least one premier is keen to keep negotiating.
ST. JOHN'S -- Newfoundland and Labrador's new budget is projecting a $688.5-million deficit for the 2026-27 fiscal year with no end in sight to annual shortfalls.
ST. JOHN'S -- The Newfoundland and Labrador government has approved hikes in greenhouse gas emissions at a nickel mine in northern Labrador and the Cenovus-owned White Rose oilfield off the coast of St. John's.
ST. JOHN'S -- Former Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams donated more than $46,000 to the Progressive Conservatives ahead of last year's election in a province where corporations and individuals can make political contributions as large as they want.
ST. JOHN'S -- The Newfoundland and Labrador government has overhauled its process for awarding contracts after false citations thought to be generated by artificial intelligence turned up in two reports, including one prepared by Deloitte Canada.
ST. JOHN'S -- Two governments appear to disagree on who will pay to clean up an abandoned rural Newfoundland fish sauce factory that has tormented residents with its fetid stench for years.
ST. JOHN'S -- The head of Newfoundland and Labrador's health authority says a review is coming soon of invoices paid to a private travel nurse agency flagged for possible billing fraud by the province's auditor general.
ST. JOHN'S -- The federal government is defending its decision to award a contract worth up to $1.1 million for advice on deploying artificial intelligence to a Canadian branch of Deloitte, a global consulting firm that is under fire for AI-related blunders.
- The federal government is defending its decision to award a contract worth up to $1.1 million for advice on deploying artificial intelligence to a Canadian branch of Deloitte, a global consulting firm that is under fire for AI-related blunders. However, Employment and Social Development Canada says there will be consequences if the company violates the conditions of the work...
ST. JOHN'S -- Newfoundland and Labrador's new premier launched a review of a major draft energy deal with Hydro-Quebec on Monday, promising a three-person panel will investigate whether the agreement best serves the cash-strapped province.
ST. JOHN'S -- Newfoundland and Labrador's College of Physicians and Surgeons has suspended the licence of the province's top-billing doctor.
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Tony Wakeham says he is heading to Ottawa later today with demands for Prime Minister Mark Carney. Wakeham told a St. John's business conference he wants Carney to designate Bay du Nord -- a proposed offshore oil development by Equinor -- as a major project of national interest.
ST. JOHN'S -- Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Tony Wakeham says he is heading to Ottawa later today with demands for Prime Minister Mark Carney.
ST. JOHN'S -- Newfoundland and Labrador's new premier has published a resignation letter from an accountant who quit a panel overseeing the province's energy negotiations with Quebec's hydro utility, defying the former Liberal government's choice to keep the note hidden.
MABOU -- Some in Cape Breton are angry and preparing to fight as a nearby golf course developer eyes the windswept beaches of West Mabou Beach Provincial Park.
ST. JOHN'S -- The leader of Newfoundland and Labrador's Liberals says he plans to stay on and fight as his party seeks recounts in three districts following a surprise defeat in this month's provincial election.
ST. JOHN'S -- The premier of Quebec says he is committed to working with Newfoundland and Labrador following election results that have cast doubt on a tentative energy deal between the provinces.
ST. JOHN'S -- Voters in Newfoundland and Labrador showed they were in the mood for a big change on Tuesday by ousting the governing Liberals after ten years in power and handing a slim majority win to the Progressive Conservatives.
ST. JOHN'S -- Voters in Newfoundland and Labrador showed they were in the mood for a big change on Tuesday by ousting the governing Liberals after ten years in power.
ST. JOHN'S -- The Progressive Conservatives will form a majority government in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Voters in Newfoundland and Labrador showed they were in the mood for a big change on Tuesday by ousting the governing Liberals after ten years in power and handing a slim majority win to the Progressive Conservatives. As the final ballots were counted at the conclusion of the autumn election campaign, Tony Wakeham's Tories edged into a small lead after...
ST. JOHN'S -- Voters in Newfoundland and Labrador showed they were in the mood for a big change on Tuesday by ousting the governing Liberals after ten years in power and handing a slim majority win to the Progressive Conservatives.
ST. JOHN'S -- The Canadian Press is projecting that the Progressive Conservatives will form the next government in Newfoundland and Labrador.
ST. JOHN'S -- After a tough, see-saw battle between Newfoundland and Labrador's two main political parties, the Progressive Conservatives appeared to be holding a lead over the governing Liberals on Tuesday night, getting the Tories very close to a surprise majority win.
ST. JOHN'S -- Newfoundland and Labrador's Liberals and Progressive Conservatives traded the lead so many times on Tuesday night that election observers may have gotten whiplash.
ST. JOHN'S -- Newfoundland and Labrador's Liberals were pulling ahead of the Progressive Conservatives on Tuesday night in the ballot count after an election campaign largely focused on a proposed multibillion-dollar energy deal with Quebec.
ST. JOHN'S -- Newfoundland and Labrador's Liberals were pulling ahead of the Progressive Conservatives on Tuesday night in the ballot count after an election campaign largely focused on a proposed multibillion-dollar energy deal with Quebec.
ST. JOHN'S -- Newfoundland and Labrador's Liberals and Progressive Conservatives are locked in a tight race after an election campaign that saw them sparring over the fate of a multibillion-dollar energy deal.
ST. JOHN'S -- The polls have closed across Newfoundland and Labrador after an election campaign that saw the governing Liberals promising to conclude a multibillion-dollar energy deal that they say will deliver economic salvation to the financially fragile province.