The Independent is a trailblazer in Canadian independent journalism. The Independent is Newfoundland and Labrador’s premiere outlet for progressive ideas and dialogue, and we do it without the corporate funding that other media outlets depend on.

13 hours ago · In 2024 we won regional and national journalism awards. We broke big stories and in-depth investigations. We expanded our coverage in Labrador. And we held in-person events to connect with our readers and supporters. But we’re not stopping there. In this time of political turmoil, and with the ...

Feb 3, 2025 · Commentary. The Independent welcomes opinion pieces from readers on any topic. These pieces reflect the opinions of the writers. The Independent editorial staff reserves the right to edit the opinion pieces for clarity and length.

Feb 6, 2025 · Valerie Gregoire hopes to raise her two-year-old son on Innu lands if she can have a place to live

4 days ago · Beverley Murphy says her 32-year-old son Mitchell may never recover if he remains incarcerated at Her Majesty’s Penitentiary Beverley Murphy speaks to supporters at a Jan. 29, 2025 protest outside Her Majesty’s Penitentiary in St. John’s, where her 32-year-old son Mitchell is incarcerated ...

The Independent is Newfoundland and Labrador’s premiere outlet for progressive news and analysis, and we do it without the corporate funding that other media outlets depend on. Formed from the ashes of its predecessor—an award-winning print newspaper that ran from 2003-2008 in St. John’s—The Independent launched as an online publication in early 2011. It was […]

Jan 28, 2025 · Photo By: Elizabeth Whitten. As post-tropical storm Fiona swept houses into the ocean in September, the team behind Wreckhouse Press were reporting on the ground of their hometown of Port aux Basques. They were documenting what was taking place.

Jan 16, 2025 · On Aug. 26, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his government is scaling back the temporary foreign worker program. A local migrant workers’ rights advocate says Canada’s scaled back temporary foreign worker program dehumanizes migrant workers and will further harm those in Newfoundland and Labrador already facing precarity and exploitation.

Dec 5, 2024 · The Sprungs are still on the go and may actually be billionaires now, selling greenhouses all over the world. It turns out that’s what they were good at — making the actual structures, not growing vegetables that scare cats. The political fallout of the ‘pickle palace’ cost then-Premier Brian Peckford his career.

Justin Brake (settler, he/him) is a reporter and editor at The Independent, a role in which he previously served from 2012 to 2017. In recent years, he has worked as a contributing editor at The Breach and as a reporter and executive producer with APTN News. Justin was born in Gander and raised in ...