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Charities ask for new deal with government NDP want more leave days for victims of partner violence Where the leaders head Saturday Ches Crosbie's Progressive Conservative party is pledging a "path to balance" — but no actual balanced budget for at least four years. The party's blue book platform, revealed Friday in St. John's, says a PC government wouldn't present a balanced provincial budget until a hypothetical second term. "The overwhelming focus has to be on jobs and growth," Crosbie told reporters in St. John's. "The other half of that, doing something about our expenditure problem. A...

Snow day campaigns for Avalon candidates NL Alliance hosts virtual event Info on mail-in ballots Where the leaders are today, tomorrow Andrew Furey promised Thursday there's no "frightening" budget coming should he and his Liberal Party win the upcoming election, as he defended — yet again — the still-to-be seen Moya Greene report. The Liberal leader was forced to the defensive Thursday in St. John's as he took questions from reporters, who quizzed him on how he plans to address the province's fiscal situation, and what role the Greene report will play in those moves. "There is no simpl...