Being Canada's youngest mayor for 36 hours and losing the title after a recount and name drawing didn't sit well with Kurtis Coombs. After the teenager and his mother made their request to the Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme court, a judge has ordered a second recount of municipal election results for the city of Paradise Newfoundland. Read more

On September 11, 2001, dozens of planes made emergency landings in Gander and the town generously opened its doors as hotels filled up. NBC's Tom Brokaw met with Gander residents last Thursday to commemorate the extraordinary event showcasing Canada US relations for the 2010 Olympic Games. Read more

Last week, The Globe and Mail featured a series of exposes on Newfoundland's brave new future. Gordon Pitts, Atlantic Business Summit panel speaker and Codfathers author, explores the growing employment opportunities and rising real estate prices on "The Rock", as well as interviews Premier Danny Williams in a side story: Read more

ECC President Chris Crowell recently penned a column for The Chronicle Herald, urging Atlantic Canadian governments, business and organizations to nurture and maintain ties with Maritimers and Atlantic Canadians who have moved away from the east coast. Calling expatriates a "renewable resource", he asserts expatriates "do not want to be an observer of the success of Atlantic Canada; they want to be a part of the story:" Read more

The 2009 Atlantic Business Summit closed out the day with a panel discussion entitled “Leadership 2.0 in Atlantic Canada. Moderated by the co-host of CTV’s Canada AM, Newfoundland’s own Seamus O’Regan, the panel featured: Andrew Oland, President of Moosehead Breweries, Pamela Scott Crace, Editor of Progress Magazine, The Honourable David Dingwall P.C. Q.C. Counsel to Sampson McDougall, Tim Coates, Executive Director of 21 Inc, and Ken Pinto, Executive Director of the Atlantic Fringe Festival. Read more

A memorandum of understand has been reached between the government of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Hibernia Consortium to begin an expansion of the Hibernia oil field. This latest expansion could yield an estimated 230 million barrels of crude oil. This is equivalent to $10 Billion in royalties at the top rate of 50 percent. Not only will the province benefit from the Hibernia expansion, but the federal government will as well. Read more

Bridges, roads and sewer system, oh my! These where among the 22 shovel ready projects approved by Federal cabinet minister Peter MacKay and Transportation and Works minister Trevor Taylor today at a news conference in St. John's, NL. Read more

The Atlantic Ink Festival ran from May 4-9, 2009, and celebrated the literary contributions and success of all the Atlantic Provinces.Newfoundland emerged as a province that those writers who don't even hail from "the rock" like to write about. Read more

As of April 1st, Newfoundland and Labrador's Churchill Falls hydroelectric facility has begun selling a portion of its generating capacity to the United States in what Premier Danny Williams called a "very important deal and a proud moment". The 5 year agreement with Hydro Quebec will net NL up to $80 million per year. Read more

The Atlantic Public Economic Council released an economic report this month summarizing the effects the economic downturn is having on the Atlantic region. Entitled "Early Impact of the Recession in Atlantic Canada – March 2009" , the report indicates that the global economic recession is causing job losses and lower activity in manufacturing and mining industries - both industries with large workforces in eastern Canada. Read more