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Lifestyles

City celebrates children’s rights

November 29, 2018 Melissa Wong 0

National day for youth is celebrated through a week of free events in St. John’s.

Eira Ducey takes a break from making the plum pudding to answer Mary Hayes's question. Ducey explains how cinnamon is being used in the traditional Christmas decorations like in the 1830s.
Audio Stories

Celebrating Christmas like its 1830

November 22, 2018 Melissa Wong 0

Some old-fashioned Christmas traditions are never out of style in St. John’s

Joey Callanan is a member of the award-winning Newman Sound Men's Choir of St. John's, Newfoundland. He is excited to sing for a special concerted called Remember on November 9 at The Rooms, St. John’s.
Lifestyles

Memories on the international stage

November 20, 2018 Melissa Wong Comments Off on Memories on the international stage

St. John’s men’s choir wants to make music around the globe.

Leonard “Lenny” Tiller is a community studies student of the College of the North Atlantic. He volunteers because “sometimes we need to forget the bad stuff.”
Audio Stories

Generation Y helps out

November 8, 2018 Melissa Wong 0

Forget what you’ve heard about Generation Y. They’re volunteering and making a difference in their own communities.

Pete Maloney has his dancing shoes and is ready to become a dancing zombie because he loves to dance. Maloney is just having trouble getting past the door that locks when it closes.
Audio Stories

Thrilling Zombie Dancers

October 25, 2018 Melissa Wong 0

Local zombie volunteers  put on their face paint and learn to dance to  Michael Jackson’s Thriller

Patricia Hynes Coates is the President of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). She is in the College of the North Atlantic Library to talk about how legalization has opened the conversation. Melissa Wong/Kicker
Audio Stories

Driving high

October 18, 2018 Melissa Wong 0

How much cannabis can someone use, before he or she needs to call a cab?

Eddie Sheerr generates his own forecasts when he forecasts the weather. He is at his desk keeping track of Hurricane Leslie in NTV headquarters.
Featured

The Tempest ABCs

October 11, 2018 Melissa Wong 0

Weathermen and women cannot magically conjure hurricanes like Prospero, but they can name them.

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Metro

Student hit by car on Prince Philip Drive

October 4, 2018 Melissa Wong 0

 

Marthe Cohn told the story about her mysterious past in her book: "Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany." She spoke in a documentary and gives talks around the world to fight for a better future. Melissa Wong/Kicker
Featured

The Jewish spy who loved me

September 27, 2018 Melissa Wong 0

A French Jewish agent in Nazi Germany during the Second World War opens up to the world and her husband about her secret past.

Stephanie Roberts a fourth-year Bachelor of Nursing Student and President of MUN Nursing Society, is the Planning Coordinator of the Red Dress Event along with Charity Drove. Melissa Wong/Kicker
Lifestyles

Fight heart disease with a colour

September 27, 2018 Melissa Wong 0

There’s a shade of red for everyone at the Red Dress event

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