Parents are giving up their jobs as hundreds remain stuck on daycare wait-lists in N.L. | Hopedale youth win $1M to build cultural centre, with ambitions for 'something potentially huge' | Contest-winning students call the shots on mock Corner Brook city council
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Good morning, these are your top stories for Wednesday, May 08, 2024.
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Parents are giving up their jobs as hundreds remain stuck on daycare wait-lists in N.L.; Alexia Pardy, a mother of two in Conception Bay South, is one of hundreds of parents in Newfoundland and Labrador on waitlists for childcare\.

Parents are giving up their jobs as hundreds remain stuck on daycare wait-lists in N.L.

May 8 , 2024 at 06:00:00 a.m. NDT • :

Hundreds of families in need of child care in Newfoundland and Labrador are on at least one wait-list, according to a Department of Education survey — and it's forcing some mothers to give up their beloved careers.
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Hopedale youth win $1M to build cultural centre, with ambitions for 'something potentially huge'; From left: Nicholas Flowers, Malaya Kisa-Knickelbein, Kimberly Pilgrim, Vanessa Flowers, Veronica Flowers, and Valerie Flowers\. The Inotsiavik Centre was proposed by this group of youth from Hopedale and has now won the top Arctic Inspiration Prize at a ceremony in Whitehorse on May 7\.

Hopedale youth win $1M to build cultural centre, with ambitions for 'something potentially huge'

May 8 , 2024 at 08:00:00 a.m. NDT • :

A group of youth in Hopedale in northern Labrador have won $1 million to build their dream of an Inuit cultural centre in their home community, marking the first Nunatsiavut project to win the Arctic Inspiration Prize. 
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Contest-winning students call the shots on mock Corner Brook city council; Jae-Ana Watkins, left, and Kenna Mangosing were chosen to be deputy mayor and mayor respectively\. They said they had fun being councillors and learned a lot\.

Contest-winning students call the shots on mock Corner Brook city council

May 8 , 2024 at 06:00:00 a.m. NDT • :

Grade 6 students in Corner Brook got to call the shots in the city on Monday, running a mock city council meeting and learning about the basics of municipal government.
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How much is Mom loved? These Grade 2 kids are giving us all the feels and some laughs, too; Why is Mom great\? So many reasons, according to these students at Rennie's River Elementary\.

How much is Mom loved? These Grade 2 kids are giving us all the feels and some laughs, too

May 8 , 2024 at 06:00:00 a.m. NDT • :

Mom, you've got a lot going on and life can be busy. But guess what? You are loved and appreciated. The CBC's Arlette Lazarenko and Jessica Singer talked to some Grade 2 students at Rennie's River Elementary in St. John's who bragged about their moms and why they're the coolest.

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Missing trucker's body found in rig in N.L., after remains missed during Ontario police search; Brian Lush is seen here with his daughter, Chloe White\. Ontario police said Monday that his body had been found\.

Missing trucker's body found in rig in N.L., after remains missed during Ontario police search

May 7 , 2024 at 03:01:12 p.m. NDT • :

The remains of a Newfoundland trucker who went missing in Ontario two weeks ago were found in the back of his truck's trailer in his home province, even though his rig was a key piece of evidence in the search and the place where he was last seen.
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'Solemn but uplifting': Qalipu First Nation's Red Dress Day brings people together; Sherry Dean says the Red Dress Day event was solemn but uplifting\.  

May 6 , 2024 at 04:25:38 p.m. NDT • :

'Solemn but uplifting': Qalipu First Nation's Red Dress Day brings people together

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Remains of unknown Royal Newfoundland Regiment soldier to be repatriated this month; Here's another view of the sarcophagus that will form the base of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Newfoundland National War Memorial in St\. John's\.  

May 7 , 2024 at 08:12:23 p.m. NDT • :

Remains of unknown Royal Newfoundland Regiment soldier to be repatriated this month

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Sparks fly between Crown, defence during closing arguments in Robert Regular trial; Robert Regular, 72, waits inside the witness box during a break in proceedings at Supreme Court in St\. John's Thursday morning\.  

May 7 , 2024 at 04:38:52 p.m. NDT • :

Sparks fly between Crown, defence during closing arguments in Robert Regular trial

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Budget airline Flair launches 2 new routes out of St. John's; Flair airlines introduced St\. John's first flight to Kitchener-Waterloo on Monday\.  

May 7 , 2024 at 08:42:59 a.m. NDT • :

Budget airline Flair launches 2 new routes out of St. John's

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Border officers relied on outdated intel to decide whether to search incoming vessels, audit warns; Containers are unloaded at the Port of Montreal in Montreal on July 20, 2017\. The Canada Border Services Agency and the Port of Montreal are dipping their feet into a blockchain-powered technology that aims to streamline freight shipping and cut costs\. In a trial run, the federal customs agency and the country's second-biggest port have signed on to the digital database -- a distributed ledger that shares and syncs up data from carriers, ports and wholesalers in places from Singapore to Peru\.  

May 7 , 2024 at 05:30:00 a.m. NDT • :

Border officers relied on outdated intel to decide whether to search incoming vessels, audit warns

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