Shrek: The Musical is the latest production for students at O’Donel High School in Mount Pearl, after previously tackling Footloose and The Wedding Singer. The CBC’s Jeremy Eaton was granted a backstage pass for rehearsals and talked to the teens about what it means to take to the stage at the Arts & Culture Centre in St. John’s for the first time since 2020.
An tentative agreement announced in a St. John's courtroom Wednesday morning will clear a cloud of uncertainty that's been hanging over the province's education system and help compensate victims of abuse at the hands of Catholic clergy and those who ran the notorious Mount Cashel orphanage.
They're like therapy dogs with wings! We meet a flock of chickens at O'Donel High School in Mount Pearl, and we hear why chickens are fitting right in with the tough kids in grade 12.
The fate of nearly three dozen church-linked schools in Newfoundland and Labrador is the subject of some legal wrangling as lawyers debate how to compensate abuse victims, and it could cause some serious disruption in the education system.