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• City of Corner Brook appoints councillor Bill Griffin to Western Regional Service Board

  Mayor Jim Parsons says it's very important to have representation on that board since it deals with garbage. 

• Seniors Advocate says seniors here "have the lowest income of seniors in Canada, and they are struggling"

  There has been less progress on the "What Golden Years?" report recommendations, which were issued to address the financial challenges seniors are facing.

• RCMP find Nitazine for the first time in NL, 17 people in Labrador facing charges

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• Fisheries Minister Gerry Byrne reaffirms right to strike or lockout is a constitutional right

  Byrne says binding decisions on final collective agreement language by third parties, coupled with a right to strike or lockout, are two approaches that are incompatible under any understood collective bargaining principle.