The Labrador Voice

Recovering from triple bypass surgery I recently had to be admitted for two weeks to Carbonear Hospital. While the doctors and nurses on the most part were great I wish to bring up the matter of patient visitations. I for the life of me cannot ...

Dear Editor, We just returned home after spending some time in your wonderful province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Our trip was sadly marked by the loss of our beloved dog, Ripley, on June 24. Ripley became gravely ill while visiting ...

The Newfoundland and Labrador Summer Games will be staged next year and the town of Bay Roberts is getting ready to showcase their town to the rest of the province. They're sprucing things up and hoping they do a respectful job in representing ...

Dear Editor, On June 5, 2019, the three of us were involved in a rollover accident on highway 210 (Burin Peninsula). We came from Ontario to see the beautiful vistas, icebergs, puffins and moose. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to ...

Dear editor, On June 9, 2019, here in Clarenville we held our 15th annual Walk to End ALS. It was another success due to the many participants, individual donors, and the businesses and organizations that made great ...

An old adage says, "There's only two things you have to do in life – pay taxes and die." Well, I know a few people that don't heed that saying. Do you know anyone who sells their wares or services for cash only with no ...

Perhaps feeling that the Sisters Fate are yanking the kite strings of my destiny as I scribble is due to some odd convergence of my life’s ley lines. Get this. A century ago, when I was an itinerant scholar, I frequently flew from the wilds ...

To the editor, The cost of a salmon license this year is $23 plus $3 HST. The province sold 28,042 licenses in 2018, equalling approximately $1 million. The cost of a two-year hook and release study on Western Arm Brook is approximately ...

I still practise criminal law, from time to time. Compared to civil litigation, criminal litigation is attractive because you can get your matter into a courtroom faster. Sometimes I despair in civil litigation, and worry that if I had to hop ...

It doesn’t matter how much money one makes or how much garbage one produces in their lifetime. We leave our mess behind for the next generation. We take nothing with us under the sod whether we could help it or not. Here is a picture of ...