Reflecting on how a pony named Little Catalina died after well-meaning people fed it too many apples, cultural historian Ainsley Hawthorn looks at times when people's good hearts nonetheless cause harm.

Canadian law only requires people to have one personal flotation device on board for each passenger. As CBC contributor Gord Follett argues, the law needs to require people to wear life-jackets on the water.

Diversification in the fishery and a focus on value have resulted in higher incomes, pulling fish harvesters out of poverty and into the upper-middle class, writes FFAW president Keith Sullivan. However, he writes, the inshore fishery remains plagued by problems that governments and business won't address.

Thirty years after the moratorium, N.L. needs to look at policy questions affecting rural areas, argues Derek Butler in a guest column for CBC Opinion. "If the fishery is rural, has its highest value ever, has as its main goal sustaining rural communities, and those communities are in decline," he writes, "what gives?"

The Atlantic premiers are rightly concerned about long-term energy security in Atlantic Canada, writes Larry Hughes for CBC Opinion. However, he says, they must not forget what many Atlantic Canadians are facing right now.

Newfoundland and Labrador's pending tax on sugar-sweetened beverages has drawn a lot of criticism — but not from Teri-lynn Myers. In a guest column for CBC Opinion, she says the tax should help people cut back unnecessary intake of sugar, which she says is a threat to people's health.

Outdoors enthusiasts around Newfoundland have been talking about what seems to be an increase in cormorants, which some believe can hurt freshwater fish stocks. Gord Follett says N.L. should look to Ontario for guidance on a hunt.

Governments are quick to say they support local farmers … but is that really true? Chris Bruce, who farms in the Codroy Valley, says there's a long list of obstacles that can get in a young farmer's way.

Contributor Tyler Stapleton has heard the excuses for the lack of infrastructure, and he's here to say: we can do it too.

The war in the Ukraine is not the first time that Newfoundlanders have been called on to welcome newcomers fleeing a crisis. As Tony Fang and David Brake write for CBC Opinion, it will not be the last.

Time is precious, especially so when you're facing a cancer diagnosis. Researcher and advocate Sevtap Savas writes that Canada needs stronger action, now, to save lives that have been put at risk because of pandemic disruptions.

Lenient fines and silence in the community provide all the cover that poachers need to keep poaching, writes Gord Follett.

Two Memorial University mathematicians explain why we're now living with the virus, instead of getting rid of it.

There is a non-sectarian way that public schools can bring the mindfulness of those lessons into each day's study, writes Rabbi Chanan Chernitsky, it's called a moment of silence.

In the early days of the pandemic, many Newfoundlanders and Labradorians showed a collective sense of grace that Devin Percey had never experienced in his 26 years living here, he writes.