On Monday, nearly five months after the provincial election, Newfoundland and Labrador Lieutenant General Joan Aylward delivered the Tony Wakeham government’s first Speech from the Throne—a tradition ...

The provincial government’s regulated 35-cent increase to Newfoundland and Labrador’s minimum wage—bringing it to $16.35 an hour—falls far short from the living wage workers need to support themselves ...

Yumna Iftikhar interviews federal election candidates during a debate hosted by The Independent in St. John's in April 2024.

A caribou from the Mealy Mountains herd in Labrador. Photo courtesy Jeff Martin. Oswald Allen sits at his kitchen table, ...

A university is not its buildings, and it doesn’t exist to serve private-sector interests. It is about the pursuit of ...

In this time of social and political turmoil, and with the continued decimation of local news outlets, The Indy and its ...

Currently, the ferry sails from Happy Valley-Goose Bay across Lake Melville and past Rigolet for every north coast trip.

Sean McGrath is a Full Professor in Philosophy at Memorial University. Born in St. John’s, he was an undergraduate at Memorial and completed a PhD at the University of Toronto in 2002. He returned to ...

Higher education has long been a public good, a vital tool for the betterment of society. Now it is being used to serve the market above all else. Reader-supported journalism for Newfoundland and ...

One day in April, 2019, I found myself in a glassy office building on the west end of Sherbrooke Street in Montreal. I was being interviewed for a prestigious doctoral scholarship; I’d come in on the ...

Delores Mullings says Memorial University has “not had a president that has understood what equity looks like, and the benefits of equity.” Tania Heath. Memorial University’s Vice-Provost of Equity, ...

Ron Webb says he and other community members don’t have a choice when it comes to dealing with Labrador’s rapidly changing climate, but they must adapt. “Years ago, we would get ice of the normal five ...