Bad PR, when you’re already public enemy #1, is just so hard to watch.

A year after the government threatened to shut down 54 libraries (more than half of the province’s libraries), and provoked a storm of protest, a $187,000 consultants’ report pointed out funding of the system, even before the planned cuts, was “very low compared to virtually all other provinces.” But it is becoming apparent a solution to the problem will take years.

At the end of a Play On! event, more than 1500 games will have been contested.

Place making is about making places people want to live in, work in, and visit. That requires a diversity of retail, food, cultural, an recreational buzz.

“What we’ve seen is the displacement of sex workers from neighbourhood to neighbourhood and it just becomes some other neighbourhood’s problem. It doesn’t address any of the actual issues, it doesn’t increase safety, it doesn’t decrease the stigma that sex workers are facing and neighbourhoods might be facing,” Heather Jarvis, SHOP’s Program Coordinator said.

Each year, the Coalition of Persons with Disabilities NL presents four Inclusion Awards to highlight the important work being done by community champions across the province.

It’s estimated that the province will host approximately 92,000 passengers and crew this year which will be an 82% increase over 2016 visitation.