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Do you know this missus? Newfoundland folklore archive hopes to give women their due

The project of the university's Folklore and Language Archive aims to find the first names of women who contributed remedies, recipes and local beliefs, but were only credited as a "missus," with their husband's last name and often his first name or initials.

New database tracks more than 2,100 deaths in custody across Canada since 2000

The average age of people who died in a Canadian correctional facility in the past two decades was 44, according to a database launched Friday by a team helmed by an Ottawa criminologist.

Number of inmates released into homelessness is climbing in N.L.

Figures from Newfoundland and Labrador's Justice Department show more than 14 per cent of inmates released from the province's largest correctional facility have no address on file to go home to.

MUN chair disciplined for forwarding pro-Palestinian email to alumnus's dad

The chair of Memorial University's board of regents has been asked to take privacy training after he forwarded an alumnus's pro-Palestinian campaign email to her father.

Unclaimed bodies are piling up in Newfoundland. A funeral director blames the government

A funeral director in St. John's says the bodies piling up in freezers at Newfoundland and Labrador's largest hospital likely belong to people whose loved ones couldn't get enough government help to pay for a funeral.

Newfoundland woman was 'living in fear' in a for-profit shelter. She was killed there

Rayna Dove kept careful notes about her attempts to move out of the shelter in downtown St. John's, where her mother says she was "living in fear."

See a goofy-looking bird on the ground? It's likely a baby and it's fine, experts say

It's fledgling season, a time when animal rescue experts say they are inundated with calls about goofy-looking birds stumbling around on the ground.

Newfoundland television station hit by ransomware attack, data breach

The Newfoundland Broadcasting Company Limited says the attack has not hampered on-air operations at NTV nor at its radio station, OZFM.

Newfoundland grandmothers can wail on the accordion. A historian wants them on stage

A group of musicians have launched a jam session for women and gender-diverse people who love to wail on the accordion.

Medical worker fleeing Gaza asked by Canada if he treated Hamas fighters

Lawyers are questioning Canada's approach to screening visa applications for people in Gaza with extended family in Canada after one applicant, a medical worker, was asked whether he had treated members of Hamas.