Thirty years after the moratorium, N.L. needs to look at policy questions affecting rural areas, argues Derek Butler in a guest column for CBC Opinion. "If the fishery is rural, has its highest value ever, has as its main goal sustaining rural communities, and those communities are in decline," he writes, "what gives?"
The price of gasoline rose 6.1 cents per litre across much of Newfoundland and Labrador on Thursday morning, putting prices back over $2 per litre across the island.
The province's Public Utilities Board lowered the maximum price of gasoline by 2.9 cents per litre Thursday, which affects prices in Newfoundland, Labrador West and Churchill Falls.