A year of COVID-19: Milestones and moments in an unforgettable year
On March 14, 2020, Newfoundland and Labrador reported what it knew was inevitable: its first case of COVID-19. We look back at 12 months like no other.
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12 months ago today, N.L. reported its first case of COVID-19. We look back at a year like no other
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Water Street in downtown St. John s was practically empty on the night of March 27 a Friday. (Paul Daly)
On March 14, 2020, Newfoundland and Labrador reported its first case of COVID-19. It triggered a mighty sequence of events that might have felt like a ton of bricks, dropping from nowhere: within a week, the province was in lockdown.
Polls to open in 22 districts on Saturday
A topical sea shanty
It s been an interesting and quite busy few days of election watch in Newfoundland and Labrador.
It s been so busy, in fact, that we had to park our daily run of the Election Notebook to focus on the pandemic response, as COVID-19 cases in the St. John s-metro area drastically spiked this week, throwing all plans out the window.
But with the spike in cases came some complications for the election, a two-pronged attack on the news cycle.
Staffing problems, related to the influx of new cases, began to surface from Elections NL returning offices in the metro area, while PC Leader Ches Crosbie and NDP Leader Alison Coffin were once again critical of Liberal Leader Andrew Furey s snap election call. Furey called the delay a welcomed pause.
Our lucky number is 13: How coming last on COVID put N.L. on top
Newfoundland and Labrador has ranked last among the provinces and territories for incidence of COVID-19, compared to relative population. As John Gushue writes, that s an enviable place to be as a vaccination program kicks into gear.
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N.L. s status is the envy of other jurisdictions, as a national vaccination program kicks into gear
Posted: Dec 19, 2020 6:00 AM NT | Last Updated: December 19, 2020
No mummers lowed in: How Sean Panting wrote a parody to end 2020
Sean Panting packed one topical reference after another into a hilarious new parody of Simani s Christmas classic, The Mummers Song.
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CBC collaborated with satirical troubadour Sean Panting on a video about how mummering will be quiet in 2020. (Katie Rowe/CBC)
It didn t take long for St. John s singer Sean Panting to find topical references to pack into a hilarious new parody of Simani s Christmas classic
The Mummers Song.