scholarly journals Sheilah Roberts Lukins. Bottoms Up: A History of Alcohol in Newfoundland and Labrador

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-152
Author(s):  
Christopher Reid
Keyword(s):  
Newfoundland And Labrador ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Overview of the New Legal Era for Development Projects in the Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore

2019 ◽  
pp. 361
Author(s):  
Todd Stanley, Q.C.
Keyword(s):  
Newfoundland And Labrador ◽  
Lead Time ◽  
Major Elements ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Legal Structure ◽  
New Locations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Regulatory Landscape ◽  
Offshore Petroleum

Petroleum projects offshore Newfoundland and Labrador continue to hold promise. The 20-year history of these projects developed within a legal and regulatory context that is currently being overhauled. This article outlines key similarities among Newfoundland and Labrador’s original offshore petroleum projects, describing them as projects of a legal era that is drawing to a close. The article then proceeds to recount the key features of a new legal and regulatory landscape that the up-and-coming offshore petroleum projects will face. Major elements of this new legal era include: changes in supporting legal structure, shortened lead time between discovery and development, new entrants (including increased interest from major international companies), new locations, and changes to the environmental assessment regime.

scholarly journals Sociodemographics and their impacts on risk factor awareness and beliefs about cancer and screening: results from a cross-sectional study in Newfoundland and Labrador

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fuyan Shi ◽  
Lance Garrett Shaver ◽  
Yujia Kong ◽  
Yanqing Yi ◽  
Kris Aubrey-Bassler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Risk Factor ◽  
Cancer Screening ◽  
Cancer Treatment ◽  
Newfoundland And Labrador ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Excellent Health ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Cancer

Abstract Background Our objective was to examine cancer risk factor awareness and beliefs about cancer treatment, outcomes, and screening, and how these are mediated by sociodemographic variables, among Newfoundland and Labrador residents. Methods Participants aged 35 to 74 were recruited through Facebook advertising, and a self-administered online questionnaire was used to collect data. Descriptive statistics, Spearman rank correlations, and multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed. Results Of the 1048 participants who responded and met the inclusion criteria for this study, 1019 were selected for this analysis. Risk factor recognition was generally good, though several risk factors had poor awareness: being over 70 years old (53.4% respondents aware), having a low-fiber diet (65.0%), and drinking more than 1 unit of alcohol per day (62.8%). Our results showed that the participants’ awareness of risk factors was significantly associated with higher income level (rs = 0.237, P <  0.001), higher education (rs = 0.231, P <  0.001), living in rural regions (rs = 0.163, P <  0.001), and having a regular healthcare provider (rs = 0.081, P = 0.010). Logistic regression showed that among NL residents in our sample, those with higher income, post-secondary education, those in very good or excellent health, and those with a history of cancer all had higher odds of having more positive beliefs about cancer treatment and outcomes. Those with a history of cancer, and those with very good or excellent health, also had higher odds of having more positive beliefs about cancer screening. Finally, compared to Caucasian/white participants, those who were non-Caucasian/white had lower odds of having more positive beliefs about cancer screening. Conclusion Among adults in NL, there was poor awareness that low-fiber diets, alcohol, and age are risk factors for cancer. Lower income and education, rural residence, and not having a health care provider were associated with lower risk factor awareness. We also found a few associations between sociodemographic factors and beliefs about cancer treatment and outcomes or screening. We stress that while addressing awareness is necessary, so too is improving social circumstances of disadvantaged groups who lack the resources necessary to adopt healthy behaviours.

Acute care restructuring in Newfoundland and Labrador: the history and impact on expenditure

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (2_suppl) ◽  
pp. 4-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie Twells ◽  
Michael Doyle ◽  
Deborah Gregory ◽  
Brendan Barrett ◽  
Patrick Parfrey
Keyword(s):  
Acute Care ◽  
Newfoundland And Labrador ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Resistance To Change ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Full Time Equivalent ◽  
Integration Of Services ◽  
History Of ◽  
Front Line Workers ◽  
Care Health

Objectives To document the history of regionalization and its effects on the Newfoundland and Labrador acute care health system, and to describe changes in acute care expenditure in the St John's region where hospital redesign, closure and aggregation occurred in relation to other regions not exposed to aggregation. Methods Interviews were conducted with senior health officials. Transcripts and other reports were reviewed. Financial data were abstracted from audited general ledger statements received from the Ministry of Health. Results Regionalization achieved its objectives of hospital aggregation in St John's. The average number of full-time equivalent employees increased slightly by 2% (5304–5416). In some regions, integration of services was delayed because of conflict and resistance to change. There was some disparity between the Provincial Government's objectives for cost control and the CEOs’ perceptions of economies of scale. Between 1995/96 and 2002/03, total expenditures for the St John's region and the other five regional hospitals increased by 46% and 54%, respectively; total personal income of the population and government revenues increased by only 18% and 16%, respectively. Conclusions Regionalization in Newfoundland and Labrador facilitated aggregation of hospitals, but did not control the number of front-line workers and, consequently, total acute care expenditure. Expenditure increased significantly between1995 and 2002, at a rate which exceeded the increase in government revenues. The government's ability to pay for acute care will not be achieved unless employee costs are controlled or provincial income increases.

scholarly journals “Court from Away but Marry Close to Home”

Ethnologies ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-68
Author(s):  
Ann Marie Powers ◽  
Diane Tye
Keyword(s):  
Newfoundland And Labrador ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Living Space ◽  
History Of ◽  
Placentia Bay ◽  
Informal Strategies

Belonging is important in Newfoundland and Labrador but with its long history of patrilocality, where and to whom have women belonged? Here we consider how women who married into new families and communities in the Placentia Bay area of the province over a fifty year period (1943-1993) negotiated a place for themselves. The women, sometimes in complicity with their mothers-in-law, managed to create physical and social space through a variety of informal strategies, from managing gossip to creating a separate living space in their in-laws’ home. Some wives eventually developed a sense of belonging while others were never able to shake off their status as strangers and always felt like outsiders.

scholarly journals Experiential Intensity of Exploring Place Abandoned

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-89
Author(s):  
Kevin Redmond
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Internal Migration ◽  
Newfoundland And Labrador ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Western Shore ◽  
History Of ◽  
Community Data ◽  
Placentia Bay ◽  
Public School Educators

There is a growing global shift towards urbanization resulting in diminishing connections with the traditional rural placescape. Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) has a long history of out-migration and internal migration between communities in coastal areas within the province. Resettlement programs initiated by the NL government between 1954 and 1975 accounted for the internal migration of approximately 30,000 people from 300 communities. Modern-day encounters with these abandoned communities are relevant to understanding the loss of place and home, as significant numbers of students in NL today are affected by migration. This paper is a phenomenological study of the experiences of educators as they explored the remnants of an abandoned community. The participants of the study were six experienced public school educators with teaching experience at the primary, elementary, intermediate, and secondary levels. The study took place in eight abandoned communities located on the western shore of Placentia Bay, where mainly the remnants of Isle Valen, St. Leonard’s, St. Kyran’s, and Great Paradise were explored. Data collection consisted of two personal interviews and one group hermeneutic circle, with the aim to answer one fundamental question: What is the experience of educators exploring the remnants of an abandoned community? Data in this study are represented by lived experience descriptions, which were interpreted hermeneutically and guided by four phenomenological existentials: temporality, corporeality, spatiality, and relationality. The results of this study not only provide deeper insight into intense experiences in communities abandoned through resettlement; they also reveal the significance of place in our lives, place as heuristic teacher, the pedagogical power of place, the need for local, meaningful place-based experiences in a curriculum as lived, and their potential for furthering personal and educational insight no matter where in this world we live or dwell.

Sea Ice, Seals, and Settlement

2019 ◽  
pp. 16-43
Author(s):  
Christopher B. Wolff ◽  
Donald H. Holly ◽  
Victor D. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Sea Ice ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Newfoundland And Labrador ◽  
Atlantic Cod ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Marine Ecology ◽  
Subarctic Region ◽  
Hunter Gatherers ◽  
Subsistence Economies ◽  
History Of

The cultural history of Newfoundland and Labrador is linked with the sea. The European occupation of this subarctic region was dependent on the abundance of Atlantic cod and other marine resources, such as seals, walrus, and whales. Precontact indigenous hunter gatherers of the region also relied heavily on marine ecology for their livelihood; yet, at various times in the region’s significant history, dynamic environmental and social conditions acted to change subsistence economies, cultures, and the course of its occupation. In this chapter, we examine archaeological, historical, and paleoecological evidence to assess the relative roles that environmental and social processes played in these critical transformations.

The ecology of Lumbriculus variegatus (Müller) (Oligochaeta, Lumbriculidae) in Newfoundland

1971 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Pickavance
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Newfoundland And Labrador ◽  
Adaptive Significance ◽  
Lumbriculus Variegatus ◽  
Temporary Pool ◽  
Juvenile Mortality ◽  
History Of ◽  
Asexual Populations

Lumbriculus variegatus (Müller) is reported from Newfoundland and Labrador in asexual populations with occasional sexual individuals. The life history of a population inhabiting a temporary pool at Logy Bay is described. The season of maximum regeneration is shown to be the first 4 months of the year and the adaptive significance of this is discussed. The possibility that the regeneration season of the species may be only a period of reduced juvenile mortality is discussed.

SUMMARIES OF THESES

1935 ◽  
Vol 13 (38) ◽  
pp. 104-112
Keyword(s):  
Newfoundland And Labrador ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
The West ◽  
Special Regard ◽  
History Of

Abstract CXXXII.—The part played by London in national affairs 1658–60, with special regard to political and economic aspects. By Maureen Weinstock CXXXIII.—The west of England woollen industry, 1750–1840. By J. Morris CXXXIV.—The history of Newfoundland and Labrador, 1754–83. By Gordon O. Rothney

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