What new legislation could mean for striking ambulance workers across Newfoundland | A plan to make space for doctors is leading to less room for the Pasadena library | Remote Labrador location potential training ground for astronauts
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Good morning, these are your top stories for Monday, January 23, 2023.
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What new legislation could mean for striking ambulance workers across Newfoundland; Workers with a private ambulance service in Gambo started a picket line on Friday, as more than 100 workers with seven private ambulance services walked off the job\.

What new legislation could mean for striking ambulance workers across Newfoundland

January 23 , 2023 • 07:21 AM NST

Members of the House of Assembly will be back at Confederation Building on Monday with the goal of passing legislation to make ambulance operators essential.
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A plan to make space for doctors is leading to less room for the Pasadena library; The Hub in Pasadena has been a hub of controversy in recent weeks, after the Town of Pasadena bought the building to create a community services facility, which would include a medical clinic\.

A plan to make space for doctors is leading to less room for the Pasadena library

January 23 , 2023 • 06:00 AM NST

A family resource centre in Pasadena is being displaced by the town's plans for a medical clinic, so it's being offered half the library as a new location. A volunteer with the local library board says it's not fair to pit user groups against one another in their need for space.
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Remote Labrador location potential training ground for astronauts; Discovery Hill near the Mistastin crater in Labrador is shown in a handout photo\. When scientists determined in the mid-1970s that the Mistastin crater in Labrador had lunar-like properties, the last Apollo mission had flown and it was too late for astronauts to take advantage of the site for training\.

Remote Labrador location potential training ground for astronauts

January 23 , 2023 • 09:12 AM NST

The conditions at the Mistastin crater are kind of like those on the moon.
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She didn't know English 6 years ago. Now this Syrian woman is a scholarship winner and studying nursing at MUN; Jamila Nahhat is studying nursing at Memorial University\. In 2011, her family fled war-torn Syria for Lebanon before coming to Canada in 2016\.

She didn't know English 6 years ago. Now this Syrian woman is a scholarship winner and studying nursing at MUN

January 22 , 2023 • 05:30 PM NST

Jamila Nahhat came to Canada, along with her family, in 2016. Being able to go to school was one of the best feelings of her life, she said, she's now continuing her education to ultimately care for people.
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Cleanup begins across the Avalon as winter weather system starts move out of Newfoundland; Snow plow crews are continuing to clean up roads across the Avalon peninsula\. Over 50 centimetres has fallen in the St\. John's area since Friday\.

Cleanup begins across the Avalon as winter weather system starts move out of Newfoundland

January 22 , 2023 • 07:41 AM NST

Snow is expected to taper off Sunday morning after being on and off since Friday.
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Hopping back into action: Lunar New Year celebrations return to N.L. for the Year of the Rabbit; The lion dance, pictured here in 2019, is one of the many festivities being brought back for this year's Lunar New Year celebration in St\. John's\.  

January 22 , 2023 • 11:35 AM NST

Hopping back into action: Lunar New Year celebrations return to N.L. for the Year of the Rabbit

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N.L. snow crab sales to Japan displaced by Russia, MP says; Atlantic Canadian snow crab sales are being displaced by the Russian market, Paul Grant, Chair of the Association of Seafood Producers, said\.  

January 22 , 2023 • 03:45 PM NST

N.L. snow crab sales to Japan displaced by Russia, MP says

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Grab some milk on your way home: An ode to the bygone neighbourhood grocery store; Gabby Peyton stands in front of a home on Merrymeeting Road in St\. John's, which once was Coady's Store\.  

January 22 , 2023 • 08:00 AM NST

Grab some milk on your way home: An ode to the bygone neighbourhood grocery store

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N.L. legislature to hold emergency debate to make private ambulances essential; More than 100 paramedics and ambulance workers employed by the Fewer Group of Ambulances began their work-to-rule campaign on Wednesday\.  

January 21 , 2023 • 05:53 PM NST

N.L. legislature to hold emergency debate to make private ambulances essential

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The wrong news about North Atlantic right whales: How human noise affects the animals; In this April 10, 2008 file photo, a North Atlantic right whale dives in Cape Cod Bay near Provincetown, Mass\.  

January 22 , 2023 • 01:20 PM NST

The wrong news about North Atlantic right whales: How human noise affects the animals

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