The Independent NL

1 week ago | theindependent.ca | Heidi Atter

The Mushuau Innu Band Council has signed new an expanded trespassing bylaw and expanded enforcement bylaw, giving expanded powers to community safety officers to search personal effects at the airport, search band-owned homes, and for the band council in Natuashish to ban more people from the community with the goal of disrupting the flow of drugs into the remote First Nation community.

1 week ago | theindependent.ca | Yumna Iftikhar |Justin Brake

The provincial government is putting Newfoundlanders and Labradorians’ future at risk, says a Memorial University researcher who is calling the Liberals’ continued massive investment in the fossil fuel sector is a “very risky bet.”In her April 9 budget speech, Finance Minister Siobhan Coady reaffirmed the province’s commitment to subsidizing the offshore oil industry, despite projections that paint a grim picture for the global fossil fuel sector.

2 weeks ago | theindependent.ca | Justin Brake

Labrador West MHA Jordan Brown is renewing his call for the provincial government to return a water bomber to Wabush and reestablish the base there. Ahead of Wednesday’s provincial budget, Brown says the province has an opportunity to increase protection of Labrador West, home to several mining communities and a region that endured consecutive dramatic wildfire seasons in 2023 and 2024. Last year’s fires forced emergency evacuations of Labrador City and Churchill Falls.

4 weeks ago | theindependent.ca | Heidi Atter

Two people were escorted out of Sheshatshiu and a home was boarded up on Tuesday afternoon, after the Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation Band Council, Innu Nation and RCMP were brought together by a group of mothers concerned about drug use on the reserve. “All the mama bears came out yesterday,” said Yvette Michel, an Innu mother, on Tuesday.

1 month ago | theindependent.ca | Heidi Atter

A Nain woman says many in the Inuit community are struggling with a lack of nutrition due to scarce availability of healthy foods, high grocery prices, and a lack of education around nutrition in the remote region. “The pricing is still really sky high and the quality of it—you see the pictures, it’s not even fit to buy,” says Mary-lou Harris, a mother of three. Harris says healthy food in Nain is unaffordable, despite federal government subsidies intended to lower prices.