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The new morgue, inside the Janeway Children's Hospital, can store 96 bodies. (Elizabeth Whitten/CBC)Newfoundland and Labrador has vastly increased the number of bodies it can store in a new morgue facility in St. John's, say health authority officials.Daniel Parsons, senior director of provincial capital planning and engineering with Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services, said this new facility consists of two fridge units and two freezer units, which is located off a hallway in the parking garage of the Janeway Children's Hospital.He said the original morgue facility was constructed in the 1970s and had a capacity of 12 bodies. The new facility can store 96 bodies."What we've done here is significantly increased our capacity," he told reporters on Friday during a tour of the facility....

Brett Samson raises funds to help others with diabetes through selling vegetables he grows, as well as turkeys he raises. (Troy Turner/CBC)Brett Samson's life is like that of many other 13-year-olds. He loves to play sports, spends as much time on his bike as he does on his pillow, and regularly takes the dog for a walk.His work on his hobby farm with his parents accounts for a lot of spare time too, as he raises chickens and turkeys and grows an abundance of vegetables. However unlike many other teens his age, Brett was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in October of 2020 when he was eight, and has to work every day to manage the disease."As soon as I came out of the hospital, we didn't know what to do. We were still new to it. But we all had to buckle down and figure it out. We got through ...