Best friends Leah McDonald and Charlotte Doyle share a passion for musical theatre and raising awareness about autism. McDonald, 26, and Doyle, 18, both live with autism and met last April in an acting class at the Autism Society in St. John's. They ...

As the weather warms and gardening season approaches, the City of Charlottetown’s food council is encouraging Islanders to consider using food waste and other sustainable practices to improve the city food system. A drop-in style “Scraps & Seeds” ...

A movie adaptation of Michael Crummey’s critically acclaimed novel “Sweetland” will play in several theatres across Newfoundland and Labrador this May. Filmed by award-winning director Christian Sparkes, "Sweetland", starring Mark Lewis Jones, Sara ...

Paul Pickrem Special to SaltWire On the night of Sept. 1, 2016, Sylvia Henshaw received a long-awaited call when she returned home from spending the day with her husband, Douglas, in the long-term care facility where he lived. For three months, ...

One of the most interesting collaborations to surface in recent memory brings together highly regarded singer-songwriter and keyboard player Bruce Hornsby and yMusic, the experimental New York chamber ensemble founded by trumpeter CJ Camerieri and ...

Islanders Don and Marion McDougall have made another multi-million-dollar donation to UPEI, their alma mater. The couple is donating $3 million to the UPEI’s business school, which has since been renamed to the McDougall Faculty of Business. “Don and ...

“Start with an easy species that’s gonna give you a yield in a short period of time, so that you get that satisfaction and that confidence.” That's Rene Lestan's most important piece of advice for people looking to grow their own mushrooms. The owner ...

During springtime in Newfoundland and Labrador, it rains a lot. Actually, I think it rains more on the island than it does in the Big Land. And maybe more on the Avalon Peninsula than anywhere else on our planet, at least it seems that way to me.

Vintage fashion is a means of self-expression for Dylan Fraser.  Fraser, an arts major at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in downtown Halifax, said that when he buys an article of clothing from a reseller, he doesn't mind paying the ...

Paul Pickrem Special to SaltWire When Madison Hirtle and Thomas Crossman decided to buy a house together two years ago, they learned that purchasing a “fixer-upper” they could invest their sweat equity in might take longer and require more sacrifice ...