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Corner Brook
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Not looking forward to filling up with these prices…highest prices I’ve seen for home heating oil. Last fill up was $1.30 a litre. Now it’s $2.07. pub.nl.ca/PP/Orders/oil/2023…
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Flush with pandemic profits, Loblaws has invested in Maple, a private Toronto company putting fee-paying patients at the front of the line for a physician visit
And Loblaws’ lawyers seem to have found a loophole in the Canada Health Act to do it legally ipolitics.ca/queens-park/hea…
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As of December 2022, these are the Bands who have signed onto the Framework Agreement on First Nation Land Management to develop Land Codes in transition out of the Indian Act into process leading to municipal "self-gov't"! 1/4
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Our 2022 Status Update on Reconciliation finds that a mere two Calls to Action were completed this year. In seven years since the release of the Calls, Canada's record is now 13 of 94.
The report, edited by @ebaans_ & @Ian_Mosby is now out. Read here: yellowheadinstitute.org/trc/
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If you or a loved one within NL test + for COVID-19 and belong to one or more of the following groups:
- immunocompromised
- 80 years of age or older
- 60 years of age and older and in rural NL/in a long-term facility/are Indigenous
Call your pharmacist to ask about Paxlovid 🦠 – at St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
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The end of Indian Act & elimination/replacement of bands & reserves is underway with feds 2-Track (ISC & CIRNAC) structure & system, privatizing reserve lands into fee simple is part of "self-gov't plan! 1/5
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Priv Comm Michael Harvey said it's 1st time in 7 yrs a bill with obvious privacy implications introduced without a draft provided to his office for consultation, even though it's one of the most significant policy considerations of our time. #nlpoli
saltwire.com/atlantic-canada…
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For the information of residents:
Beginning Tuesday November 1, 2022 there will be NO through traffic on Mt. Bernard Ave from the intersection of Main St. to Wellington St. This is necessary for our ongoing infrastructure improvements to the area.
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In the never-ending saga of the govt’s failure to address the primary care crisis: another 🧵 from yours truly. 1/20 – at St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
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Pharmacists practicing expanded scope such as minor ailment assessment, chronic disease management, and prescription renewals without government funding in a publicly funded healthcare system contributes to the creation of a two-tiered healthcare system.
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This comparison of satellite images of Prince Edward Island and the Northumberland Strait, taken on August 21 and September 25, 2022, shows the extent to which the extreme wind and wave action of the storm has churned up the seafloor and eroded the coastline.
ALT Before-and-after satellite images of Prince Edward Island show coastline erosion and suspended sediments caused by hurricane Fiona.
ALT Before-and-after satellite images of Prince Edward Island show coastline erosion and suspended sediments caused by hurricane Fiona.
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An early look at the expected wind gusts across the Island and southeast Labrador from Friday night into Sunday. On the Island, the highest wind speeds will occur during the day on Saturday. It'll be before 8 or 9 AM in the east. During the afternoon in the west. #nlwx
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Hurricane #Fiona, as it approaches the Canadian coast, could produce some of the highest waves ever recorded in the Atlantic.
The latest European Wave model has maximum wave heights up to 90 feet (27.4 m)!
This would obviously result in catastrophic coastal damage and erosion.
This was informative - and alarming
“How many 25-year-old backbenchers are elected that we never hear about? But he makes himself visible right away and makes his name … by being an attack dog.” @sproudfoot on the early career of Pierre Poilievre, new leader of the Conservative Party: cbc.ca/1.6579596
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Pierre Poilievre’s strategy of playing an anti-establishment friend of working people is compelling, effective & dangerous.
If this fake populist can con his way to power, the elite will have a field day.
Our @thebreachmedia video explains his playbook:
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Nearly one in 10 Newfoundlanders and Labradorians can’t drink the water from their own taps
cbc.ca/1.6571333
