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• 5 east coast companies to get federal defense funding; announcement coming tomorrow

  Tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock, he will meet with top brass at PAL Aerospace and Exchange Income Corporation. An hour later Minister Fraser will be joined by Federal Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson and Cape Spear MP Tom Osborne for the announcement.

• Auditor General to deliver a report today on NLHC rental inventory

  The AG is set to deliver the report to the House of Assembly this afternoon and she will be available to the media at 3 p.m. 

• Students in grades 10 and 11 have until Monday to apply for the Youth Apprenticeship Summer Program (YASP)

  Manager Joshua Ivany says this is the fourth year for the program which has grown from four jobs on the Avalon to 107 today across the province, with about 30 available on the west coast.

• On-demand weeknight and weekend transit service starting in Corner Brook on April 1st

  On April 1st, hours of service will be extended to 6-11 p.m. Monday thru Friday and weekends from 9-5.

• Plans to build a home bounded by the Humber River in Steady Brook gets environmental green light

  The land is currently developed with a mobile home, an existing driveway, and landscaping.