Feb 5, 2025 · The Independent is a trailblazer in Canadian independent journalism. The Independent is Newfoundland and Labrador’s premiere outlet for progressive ideas and dialogue, and we do it without the corporate funding that other media outlets depend on.

1 day ago · Ayush Neupane and Dikson Rajbanshi accept the Fry Family Foundation Belonging Award at the 2nd Annual Genesis Pitch & Pick competition. Submitted. Newfoundland and Labrador’s tech industry may not have the same long-standing legacy as the province’s energy or fishing sectors, but its economic ...

Feb 6, 2025 · Valerie Gregoire hopes to raise her two-year-old son on Innu lands if she can have a place to live

Feb 8, 2025 · Beverley Murphy says her 32-year-old son Mitchell may never recover if he remains incarcerated at Her Majesty’s Penitentiary Beverley Murphy speaks to supporters at a Jan. 29, 2025 protest outside Her Majesty’s Penitentiary in St. John’s, where her 32-year-old son Mitchell is incarcerated ...

19 hours ago · An illustration of the proposed Nain airport and airstrip. GHD / Nunatsiavut Government.. On Thursday the province released the proposed new airport and airstrip in Nain from environmental assessment (EA), moving the desperately needed transportation infrastructure one step closer to reality.

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The Independent is Newfoundland and Labrador’s premiere outlet for progressive news and analysis, and we do it without the corporate funding that other media outlets depend on. Formed from the ashes of its predecessor—an award-winning print newspaper that ran from 2003-2008 in St. John’s—The Independent launched as an online publication in early 2011. It was […]

Jan 27, 2025 · On Aug. 26, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his government is scaling back the temporary foreign worker program. A local migrant workers’ rights advocate says Canada’s scaled back temporary foreign worker program dehumanizes migrant workers and will further harm those in Newfoundland and Labrador already facing precarity and exploitation.

Jan 14, 2025 · Nunatsiavut Assembly building in Hopedale. Photo: Justin Brake. Inuit governments and the national advocacy group for Inuit rights are calling for an end to the Canada Post strike.

Jan 27, 2025 · Justin Brake (settler, he/him) is a reporter and editor at The Independent, a role in which he previously served from 2012 to 2017. In recent years, he has worked as a contributing editor at The Breach and as a reporter and executive producer with APTN News.