CBC News' Cherie Wheeler reports from western Newfoundland, where an experiment in growing canola and wine grapes in this historically non-agricultural province has yielded success.

Thanks to the success of some unconventional crops grown last summer, western Newfoundland might soon add canola and grapes to its list of agricultural products ( Read more... )

Konrad Yakabuski writes at The Globe and Mail about the underlying economic issues behind tense relations between Québec and Newfoundland, in the very low prices of Labrador-generated hydroelectricity sold to Québec.

Ottawa’s decision to extend an additional $2.9-billion loan guarantee to enable Newfoundland to proceed with its ruinous Muskrat ( Read more... )

This Canadian Press report in the Toronto Star is disheartening.

The premier of Newfoundland and Labrador confirms that flooding of a reservoir at the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric site is underway ( Read more... )

CBC News' Lindsay Bird reports on the continued but--so far--fruitless search for Viking artifacts in southwestern Newfoundland's Point Rosee.

On a meadowy spit of oceanfront land in southwestern Newfoundland, a team of scientists spent part of the summer of 2016 working to both uncover history and make it, modern explorers trying to track down ( Read more... )

The Labradorian's Evan Careen reports on the impending Inuit Blanche event in St. John's. This is a fantastic idea!

This October the city of St. John’s will be playing host to a three-day celebration of Inuit art, culture and knowledge ( Read more... )

Deen Beeby's CBC News article is bittersweet.

Ottawa is throwing its weight behind an effort to repatriate the remains of two Indigenous people taken from a Newfoundland gravesite in 1828 that are now at a museum in Scotland ( Read more... )

• The Big Picture shares photos from a Newfoundland where the cod fisheries are recovering.
• blogTO notes the bars which will be screening the final concert of The Tragically Hip.
• Centauri Dreams notes a paper finding that KIC 8462852 has been fading noticeably in recent years.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes the detection of circumpulsar disks.
• Language Hat ( Read more... )

The Globe and Mail's Konrad Yakabuski writes about the huge unanticipated costs of a hydroelectric project weighing down on a depressed Newfoundland.

By his own admission, former Newfoundland and Labrador premier Danny Williams entered politics in 2001 to turn his proverbially have-not province into the master of its own destiny ( Read more... )

CBC News' Lindsay Bird and Zach Goudie described the role of Newfoundland in ushering in the era of instantaneous global communications.

Of all the ocean views that can take your breath away on the beach of Heart's Content, it's safe to say you wouldn't look twice at the rusty old cables that run across its rocks and out to sea from the small town ( Read more... )

• Al Jazeera looks at the rejection of political Islam by Tunisia's Ennahda party.
• The Australian Broadcasting Corporation notes the ambition of Zambia to become a major food-exporting country.
• Bloomberg notes the negative impact of booming immigration on the New Zealand economy, observes Ireland's efforts to attract financial jobs from London-based ( Read more... )