Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Tony Wakeham announced Monday a new agreement with Quebec and Ottawa on the Churchill Falls energy project. The key word of the deal is more — more power, more control, more jobs and more money to N.L. But how good is the new MOU really? In this episode, we give you takes from different perspectives, and a look at what could be next for our province.

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N.L., Quebec announce new Churchill Falls agreement worth billions — with help from Ottawa

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/new-churchill-falls-deal-announced-wakeham-carney-frechette-9.7309135

Reporting a property where drugs are bought, sold, or used sounds straightforward – until you try to do it. From red tape, blurred lines around responsibility between police and the city, and the vulnerable people caught in between, it’s far from simple. This week on the podcast the CBC investigative reporter Ariana Kelland explains why closing a trap house is far more complicated than it seems.

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Neighbours say some NLHC units operating with impunity as ‘trap houses’

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/neighbours-say-some-nlhc-units-operating-with-impunity-as-trap-houses-9.7154477

'Trap houses' pose neighbourhood concerns. Could shelved N.L. law be a solution?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nl-safer-communities-and-neighbourhoods-act-review-9.7221592

How do you rebuild after your community has been devastated by wildfire? And how do you go about that work when you’re still searching for answers on how it started? We answer these questions on this week’s podcast, as reporters Terry Roberts and Ryan Cooke bring us back to Conception Bay’s north shore one year after the start of the Kingston Fire.

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A year after the fires, devastated Conception Bay North communities are slowly rebuilding

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/fires-north-shore-anniversary-9.7289132

In the absence of answers, C.B.N. residents have one burning question: Why us?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/kingston-fire-anniversary-rcmp-investigation-9.7292040