Safe election being questioned by Returning Officer
Elections NL has had two workers test positive for Covid-19.
But it’s not just positive cases election NL is up against. Returning Officer Judy Lockyer-Shields, for the district of Conception Bay East – Bell Island, says she doesn’t have enough staff for the 12 voting stations in her district.
Lockyer-Shields, who has been working elections in the province since 2003, says “I don’t know how we can have an election if we don’t have the staff.”
Lockyer-Shields biggest concern is the sanitization that is to happen. She says her district would only be able to run two voting stations with proper sanitization protocols.
The Newfoundland and Labrador English School District is suspending in-class instruction for all schools in the St. John’s metro area as well as Bell Island, Mobile and Witless Bay along with extracurricular activities for all schools across the province.
Located amid the rugged, scenic vistas of Conception Bay, off the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, is a tiny speck of land called Bell Island. Measuring just 6 miles in length and 2.2 miles in width, it nevertheless strikes an imposing presence with its soaring cliffs on all sides and its numerous sea caves and sandstone sea stacks. It is known for its craggy, menacing façade, for the most part seeming to be almost unapproachable with its jagged rocky exterior, as well as for its rich diversity of sea birds coming here to roost. Yet for all of its wild charms and rugged, scenic beauty, the island also has its share of dark secrets, and indeed this windswept slash of rock has managed to gather about itself a reputation for being among the most haunted places in Canada.
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In mid-week, the PMO released a statement regarding Prime Minister Justin Trudeauâs telephone call with John Kerry, the new U.S. climate czar.
(He just happens to fly around in a private jet.)
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The two had met personally before, of course, in a much looser setting where âno shirt, no shoesâ was perfectly acceptable.
In 2016, when Trudeau and his entourage famously flew off to the private Caribbean island of the Aga Khan for a communal Christmas vacation â thereby breaking a chestful of parliamentary rules â John Kerry also happened to be a guest.
Posted: Jan 13, 2021 5:11 PM NT | Last Updated: January 13
A special poppy pin commemorating Pte. Michael Jackman, who died in the First World War, was donated to The Rooms on Tuesday. It was made from brass shell fuses that were collected from the former battlefields in France. (Darryl Murphy/CBC)