In 1974, Timothy O’Bryan died because his father, Ronald, put cyanide in his Pixy Stix in order to collect insurance money. When Timothy died, Ronald claimed “a stranger must have poisoned my kid’s Halloween candy.”
Some Good: Nutritious Newfoundland Dishes is almost like a dare: Eat what you’ve grown up on here, but somehow make it healthy. The cookbook is…
Relish is the condiment of harvest season. Coming from the Old French reles, meaning “something remaining,” it’s what we do with the leftover portions of our garden’s yield.
Crown and Anchor took home the Audience Choice Award at its Nickel Film Festival premiere this summer, and now a grander audience can check out the film in theatres in St. John’s, August 24th, as well as Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Portland, and Virginia.
Deer Lake: Major’s Logging Limited has announced they’ll be building a brewery & boutique hotel in Deer Lake.
“Picking fresh berries is a privilege we Newfoundlanders take for granted,” says Todd Boland, horticulturist for the MUN Botanical Garden. “We have so much Crown land we can…
What makes a city a smart city? It’s not collective brain power, but rather smart technology.
Out of Earshot, a new DIY music and arts festival based at Eastern Edge Gallery is launching August 23-25th.We spoke to founding member, Jess Barry, about the origins of the fest and some of the acts she’s most excited about.
Tsunamis are meant to happen elsewhere. Out beyond the Atlantic pale and confined to the Pacific ring of fire. Strictly the preserve of myth, rumour, and distant voices. It always had been, until 1929.
Last year in The New Yorker, Jia Tolentino wrote that the heyday of the personal essay is over. Significantly popularized in a journalistic climate…
“Nothing short of proof will suffice any longer. The choice is between the burden of proof and the burden of a potential catastrophe, and so the choice could not be clearer.”
The money comes from the Federal Government’s “Transit Infrastructure Improvement Fund,” so it is just that: improvements to infrastructure, not the sorts of operational improvements many folks are longing for.