Working on a story today about two western NL men who helped a moose get back up on its legs after it fell going over a concrete median on the TCH on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026.
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Introducing the Newfoundland Regiment Hockey Club - the newest member of the QMJHL.
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Nine hours after fire broke out at the Driftwood Inn and Jungle Jim’s in Deer Lake, firefighters continue to extinguish hotspots. Building completely destroyed. All staff and guests accounted for, and safe. Fire department anticipates remaining on scene throughout the night.
BREAKING: Firefighters from three departments continue to battle blaze that’s destroyed the historic Driftwood Inn and Jungle Jim’s restaurant in Deer Lake. All hotel guests accounted for, and are safe.
While KFC may be more famous, with more locations, Mary Brown's Chicken is completely Canadian.
What started in Newfoundland eventually spread across the country to become a favourite fried chicken restaurant of many.
This is the story of Mary Brown's Chicken!
In 1969, Pat Tarrant and Cyril Fleming purchased the rights to open the first Golden Skillet fried chicken restaurant in Canada.
That location was opened in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Due to legal issues, they were forced to change the name of the restaurant. They chose to call it Mary Brown's Virginia Fried Chicken, in honour of Mary Brown Guthrie, the wife of Clifton Guthrie. He was the founder of Golden Skillet.
According to the company, Mary Brown was the creator of the American Southern-fried chicken recipe.
After the rebrand, the company developed its own proprietary cookers to "seal in juiciness and flavour".
Unlike other places, Mary Brown's chicken is not pressure fried.
Mary Brown's slowly started to expand, going into Oshawa and Mississauga by 1972. Mary Brown's famous taters debuted in Ontario in 1980.
By the late-1970s it had expanded outside Ontario.
The first restaurant in Western Canada opened in Alberta, then restaurants opened in Nova Scotia.
These were followed by restaurants in Manitoba and then Saskatchewan.
More recently, Mary Brown's has opened restaurants in B.C. and the Northwest Territories.
Today, there are 230 locations across Canada.
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