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News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
A Delta Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Newfoundland, Canada, after a note found in a washroom claimed a bomb was on board.Flight 22 took off Sunday night from Atlanta bound for Paris with 219 people aboard, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., reported From Gander.After the note was found, the pilot of the Boeing 767 got permission to land at Gander and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were...
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
A Newfoundland Supreme Court ruling that says the Gander International Airport doesn't have to pay municipal taxes has huge implications for the town, the deputy mayor has said.
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
A Gander man who lost out in a controversial central Newfoundland patient registry says it's unacceptable that he and others have to seek routine prescriptions from emergency room physicians.
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
After six years of court battles, the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador ruled that Gander International Airport , in Central Newfoundland, does not have to pay municipal taxes.
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Central Health, the health authority responsible for health care in Central Newfoundland will not continue a two-year pilot project that gave new doctors an extra $10,000 if they signed up for a job in Gander.
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
It's a hospital lottery with a twist, and nearly half the people in the Gander area eagerly threw their names into the draw for a chance to be seen by one of the new family doctors starting practice this summer in the central Newfoundland town.
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
About 2,000 people in central Newfoundland will get phone calls, beginning Monday, to learn they've won the lottery for a new family doctor at the Gander Medical Clinic.
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
A black Lab named Snoop was given a stay of execution yesterday by the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador.Madam Justice Kendra Goulding agreed to hear new arguments in the fall before resentencing Gander resident Gord Blundon, giving the dog's master a chance to explain that Snoop may have been provoked before he bit two people.
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 05/26/2008
A medical clinic in the central Newfoundland community of Gander was opening its phone lines and bracing itself Monday for a barrage of calls from people looking for a family physician.
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
An environmentally-friendly sewer system installed to service the rural central Newfoundland towns of Glenwood and Appleton, has been anything but good to the environment recently, as it spewed raw sewage into the nearby Gander River for a week.
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News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 03/17/2008
A major blizzard began pounding Newfoundland Monday with forecasters warning of hurricane-force winds and 15 inches of snow.Meteorologist Rob Carroll of Environment Canada's weather office in Gander, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., was moving ashore from Sable Island and was likely to pound Canada's easternmost province for three days.It's not looking too good right now. We're watching a pretty...
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News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
Eastern Newfoundland was hit Thursday by a blizzard so intense meteorologists said radar couldn't penetrate it, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., reported.Environment Canada spokesman Devon Telford in Gander told the CBC there wasn't much color in satellite imagery of the storm.It's so dense there that the radar beam can't cut through all of it, so it's showing up as black, Telford said.In St. John's,...
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Airport workers in Gander have agreed to a last-minute contract deal, averting a strike at the central Newfoundland airport.
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 02/27/2008
A pink snowsuit that has the likeness, but not the name, of Winnie the Pooh has a central Newfoundland family wondering if they bought a fraudulent garment.
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John Gushue . . . Dot Dot Dot (Free subscription) | 02/24/2008
I learned something interesting about one of my colleagues this morning. So, too, did anyone who had Weekend A.M. tuned in, as host Angela Antle spoke with a local hockey blogger named "J.T." ... which turns out to be the handle of Leigh Anne Power, who cohosts CBC Radio's central Newfoundland Morning Show. Check out her blog - The H Does NOT Stand For Habs - right here.