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03 July 2010

Traffic Drivers, June 28 to July 2

  1. NL population up by estimated 96 people (28 Jun)
  2. Potential investor quits mill talks, accuses government of “overt politicization”: CBC
  3. Mind-boggled Dunderdale continues to blunder
  4. In Alberta, they have problems too…
  5. Beaumont Hamel
  6. Potential GFW mill buyer in German bankruptcy protection for second time in six years (extend the date range to 26 Jun when this was first posted and it becomes the Number One story)
  7. Five years of secret talks on Lower Churchill:  the Dunderdale audio
  8. Motion Invest’s statement on Grand falls-Windsor project
  9. A Crown corporation by any other name
  10. Calamity Kath Dunderdale:  the Miracle Max ploy

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Change and Challenge: the Strategic Economic Plan (1992)

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