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14 May 2011

Friday the 13th Traffic Report

In a week of disruptions and hiccups at ye olde Bond Papers, let’s see what people were reading:

  1. Fortis on Lower Churchill:  No thanks!
  2. For the world is hollow…
  3. How west coast Newfoundland could beat the Lower Churchill
  4. Not a Mommy blogger…not that there’s anything wrong with that
  5. Why columnists need editors
  6. NB to seek offshore accord with feds
  7. Court docket now online
  8. Bell 206 crash – photo interpretation
  9. Anyone seen John Hickey?
  10. Paul Oram:  minister of revisionist history

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