The Gammy Bird
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Squawking news, info, stories and gossip from the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. (News website) www.thegammybird.ca
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The Red-Haired Skeet With The Purple Lakers Hat
The Red-Haired Skeet With The Purple Lakers Hat. The latest installment of Skeets of Bannerman Park by Roger Bill
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November 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Latest installment of Skeets of Bannerman Park by Roger Bill thegammybird.ca/2025/11/07/t...
The murder of Seamus Secord by Robert Belbin marks a new normal for drugs, guns and violence in crime in St John's, Newfoundland. A place where murders used to be years apart. Story by Roger Bill. Photo by Greg Locke #crime #newfoundland #news #journalism #photojournalism
The Murder of Seamus Secord. Drugs, Guns and a New Normal
The murder of Seamus Secord by Robert Belbin is the new normal of drugs, guns extreme violence in crime in St John's, Newfoundland where once murder was...
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October 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The murder of Seamus Secord by Robert Belbin marks a new normal for drugs, guns and violence in crime in St John's, Newfoundland. A place where murders used to be years apart. Story by Roger Bill. Photo by Greg Locke #crime #newfoundland #news #journalism #photojournalism
Immigrants work in Newfoundland and Labrador to make better lives for themselves and provide for families back home. Contributing to NL economy in the process. #newfoundland #labour #workers #immigration
“I have people depending on me.” Immigrants work to provide for families.
Immigrants work in Newfoundland and Labrador to make better lives for themselves and provide for families back home. Contributing to NL economy in the process.
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October 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Immigrants work in Newfoundland and Labrador to make better lives for themselves and provide for families back home. Contributing to NL economy in the process. #newfoundland #labour #workers #immigration
Ben Collingwood and Betsy Nicholson win 2025 Cape to Cabot 20km road race in 8 degree temtps wind and rain. #sports #newfoundland #news
Ben Collingwood and Betsy Nicholson win 2025 Cape to Cabot
Ben Collingwood, Betsy Nicholson win Cape to Cabot 20k Road Race 2025. Collingwood, completed the course in 1:15:22. Nicholson completed the course in 1:31:03
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October 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Ben Collingwood and Betsy Nicholson win 2025 Cape to Cabot 20km road race in 8 degree temtps wind and rain. #sports #newfoundland #news
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If you into photography and reality....here is a geeky article for you. FYI: Other camera makers have been working with the major news agencies like Reuters, AFP, AP for years on photo authentication technology. #photography #journalism
Is that photo real or fake? Digital ‘birth certificates’ are a new way to get answers
Sony technology, tested by The Globe over months, seeks to create a virtual paper trail that AI-generated imagery can never match
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October 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
If you into photography and reality....here is a geeky article for you. FYI: Other camera makers have been working with the major news agencies like Reuters, AFP, AP for years on photo authentication technology. #photography #journalism
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Gammy's election hot take
The Gammy Bird has some thoughts on the 2025 Newfoundland and Labrador election, the issues and the value of opinions of old politicians and bureaucrats.
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October 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Why is this man smiling? First Polling is out for period leading up to Oct 14 NL election. #journalism #newfoundland #election #polling thegammybird.ca/2025/10/01/f...
First polling for NL provincial election - The Gammy Bird
The first polling information for the Newfoundland and Labrador provincial election has surfaced. It give first snapshot of parties leading up to Oct election
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October 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Why is this man smiling? First Polling is out for period leading up to Oct 14 NL election. #journalism #newfoundland #election #polling thegammybird.ca/2025/10/01/f...
Canada's Day of Truth and Reconciliation in Newfoundland and Labrador. #innu #indigenous #Canada thegammybird.ca/2025/09/29/c...
Canada's Day of Truth and Reconcilliation.
Day of Truth - Reconciliation. The Innu of Labrador suffered schools and gov child protection services which removed children from their families and community
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September 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Canada's Day of Truth and Reconciliation in Newfoundland and Labrador. #innu #indigenous #Canada thegammybird.ca/2025/09/29/c...
Newfoundland Election: October 14 as election day. Failing provincial ferry's should be an election issue but the Quebec / Newfoundland hydro agreement is cued up to be the ballot box question. The ferry Grace Sparks on drydock in St John's #canada #newfoundland #news #journalism
2025 NL Election set of October 14
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier John Hogan waits it down to the wire to call a provincial election on the mandatory day of October 14 with a 28 day campaign.
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September 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Newfoundland Election: October 14 as election day. Failing provincial ferry's should be an election issue but the Quebec / Newfoundland hydro agreement is cued up to be the ballot box question. The ferry Grace Sparks on drydock in St John's #canada #newfoundland #news #journalism
What happened to the Newfoundland government's Great Reset? #newfoundland #government #journalism thegammybird.ca/2025/09/09/w...
What happened to the government's Big Reset?
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier inherited a province on the edge of bankruptcy. Harsh measures were planning but failed to appear.
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September 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
What happened to the Newfoundland government's Great Reset? #newfoundland #government #journalism thegammybird.ca/2025/09/09/w...
Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney in St John's, Newfoundland with MP Joanne Thompson and NL Premier John Hogan. #newfoundland #canada #politics #journalism #news thegammybird.ca/2025/09/09/c...
Carney visits NL first time since election
Canadian PM Mark Carney visited Newfoundland for the first time since the election to make an $80 million funding announcement to counter trade tariffs.
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September 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney in St John's, Newfoundland with MP Joanne Thompson and NL Premier John Hogan. #newfoundland #canada #politics #journalism #news thegammybird.ca/2025/09/09/c...
Innu Nation launches campaign aimed at Memorial University's Indigenous Verification Policy. #indigenousright #firstnations #canada #journalism #news #indigenous #innunation
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Innu Nation lcampaign aimed at MUN Indigenous policy
Innu Nation has launched campaign aimed at Memorial University's Indigenous policy expected to be voted upon by the Board of Regents by end of December.
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September 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Innu Nation launches campaign aimed at Memorial University's Indigenous Verification Policy. #indigenousright #firstnations #canada #journalism #news #indigenous #innunation
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INNU NATION launches campaign in support of Memorial University's draft Indigenous Verification Policy.
"Indigenous spaces for Indigenous peoples." "Les espaces autochtones pour les peuples autochtones."
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#firstnation #canada #indigenous #innunation
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"Indigenous spaces for Indigenous peoples." "Les espaces autochtones pour les peuples autochtones."
take-action.innu.ca
#firstnation #canada #indigenous #innunation
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September 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
INNU NATION launches campaign in support of Memorial University's draft Indigenous Verification Policy.
"Indigenous spaces for Indigenous peoples." "Les espaces autochtones pour les peuples autochtones."
take-action.innu.ca
#firstnation #canada #indigenous #innunation
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"Indigenous spaces for Indigenous peoples." "Les espaces autochtones pour les peuples autochtones."
take-action.innu.ca
#firstnation #canada #indigenous #innunation
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Happy Labour Day. In 1986 there was a bitter strike in Newfoundland between the government workers union, NAPE, and conservative government. The guy getting tossed in the back of a cop car was one of hundreds charged and arrested on the picket line. ...never give up :^) #labourday #photojournalism
Happy Labour Day from 1986 NAPE strike flashback
In 1986 the Brian Peckford Progressive Conservative government took just 19 minutes to pass Bill 59 that kicked off the 1986 NAPE government workers strike.
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August 31, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Happy Labour Day. In 1986 there was a bitter strike in Newfoundland between the government workers union, NAPE, and conservative government. The guy getting tossed in the back of a cop car was one of hundreds charged and arrested on the picket line. ...never give up :^) #labourday #photojournalism
Photos from Newfoundland wildfires last week. By @greglocke.com #photojournalism #News #canada #newfoundland
August 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Photos from Newfoundland wildfires last week. By @greglocke.com #photojournalism #News #canada #newfoundland
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Innu Nation commemorates UNESCO International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Aug 9 was adopted December 1994 by UN General Assembly. Indigenous Peoples live in all regions of the world and many continue to face marginalization, poverty, cultural loss and other human rights violations.
August 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Innu Nation commemorates UNESCO International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Aug 9 was adopted December 1994 by UN General Assembly. Indigenous Peoples live in all regions of the world and many continue to face marginalization, poverty, cultural loss and other human rights violations.
Some great photos from the Innu Elders Gathering in 2022 hosted by the Mushuau Innu First Nations in Natuashish on the north coast of Labrador.
We have posted our latest photo gallery on our FaceBook page. Photos from the 2022 Gathering of Elders. Hosted by the Mushuau Innu First Nation in Natuashish. #indigenous #canada #firstnations #Innu #innunation
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August 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Some great photos from the Innu Elders Gathering in 2022 hosted by the Mushuau Innu First Nations in Natuashish on the north coast of Labrador.
Pix and results from the 207th Royal St John's Regatta on sister publication, The Sports Page NL. #sports #photojournalism #newfoundland #canada
Home Hardware and VW win 2025 Regatta - The Sports Page
Capital Home Hardware and Volkswagon St John's win Mens and Womans championships at 207th Royal St John's Regatta on Quidi Vidi Lake in St John's Newfoundland.
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July 31, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Pix and results from the 207th Royal St John's Regatta on sister publication, The Sports Page NL. #sports #photojournalism #newfoundland #canada
Check out our sister publication The Sports Page NL ...for sports reporting in Newfoundland and Labrador. #newfoundland #sports #journalism
Caps win 2025 Senior Baseball championship - The Sports Page
St John's Capitals defeat the Mount Pearl Blazers 10-1 on July 27, 2025 to with the 2025 Newfoundland and Labrador senior baseball championship.
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July 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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A new photo gallery from the 2021 Manishan Nui Annual Gathering at Gull Island. #innunation #firstnations #indigenous #canada #innu
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July 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
A new photo gallery from the 2021 Manishan Nui Annual Gathering at Gull Island. #innunation #firstnations #indigenous #canada #innu
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A fishing boat passes the Floatel Endurance at Bay Bulls, Newfoundland, Canada July 14, 2025. The Endurance is a floating offshore accommodations platform for oil rig workers on the West White Rose offshore oil rig currently under construction. #canada #energy #newfoundland #photojournalism
July 14, 2025 at 11:11 PM
A fishing boat passes the Floatel Endurance at Bay Bulls, Newfoundland, Canada July 14, 2025. The Endurance is a floating offshore accommodations platform for oil rig workers on the West White Rose offshore oil rig currently under construction. #canada #energy #newfoundland #photojournalism
John Doyle resurrects his father's old Kodachrome 8mm movie film into a book of still images about life in rural Newfoundland between 1937 through 1955. ...pretty cool. thegammybird.ca/2025/07/09/i...
In The Sunny Long Ago by John Doyle
John Doyle's In The Sunny Long Ago, A photo album of old Newfoundland he resurrects the 8mm Kodachrome film of his father, Gerald S Doyle and extracts i...
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July 9, 2025 at 11:48 AM
John Doyle resurrects his father's old Kodachrome 8mm movie film into a book of still images about life in rural Newfoundland between 1937 through 1955. ...pretty cool. thegammybird.ca/2025/07/09/i...
Next installment of Skeets of Bannerman Park is now online for your weekend read. ...Plenty of Skeets. thegammybird.ca/2025/07/04/f...
Film Crew Skeets and Modern Missionaries
Latest installment of Skeets of Bannerman Park by Roger Bill. A look at a sub-sub culture of townie in St John's, Newfoundland.
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July 4, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Next installment of Skeets of Bannerman Park is now online for your weekend read. ...Plenty of Skeets. thegammybird.ca/2025/07/04/f...