The Sir Robert Bond Papers

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This is the 15th year of Bond Papers. This Sunday marks the 16th anniversary and there's a big announcement coming. Check back. In the m...

There is no shortage of gaps in politics in Newfoundland and Labrador. Regular readers will be familiar with the Credibility Gap.   That’s...

  Communication remains the single biggest chronic failure of the province’s COVID-19 response. As regular readers of these e-scribbles kn...

December 17 is an auspicious day in Muskrat Falls history. That was the date in 2012 when Kathy Dunderdale stood in front of a group of c...

Danny Williams made the news last week. Williams was locked in a battle with St. John’s city hall over whether or not Williams could put a...

 Accepting that life is all about risk is the first cognitive step. Mark Kingwell, On Risk (2020) T he reporter just wanted to confirm how m...

The federal government offered the provincial government its share of about $19 billion in COVID aid delivered to provinces in July. There w...

 In Newfoundland and Labrador, politicians and public health bureaucrats are dealing more with a pandemic of fear than of disease. It is one...

The members of the House of Assembly voted unanimously at the end of October to set up a committee to decide how to give everyone in the pr...

Ex-Harper fart catcher Norm Doyle Veteran Connie hack Norm Doyle has finally aged off the public tit, on which he spent too much of his adul...

The Bank of Canada will stop picking up provincial government debt effective 16 November, 2020, the Bank  announced  Monday. The move reflec...

Moya Greene, head of the Premier’s Economic Recovery Team, told municipal leaders last week that the provincial government spends almost $2....

The Memory Hole Nineteen eighty-four is popular these days. People think that the ideas in the book like the memory hole are modeled on c...

Nick Youngson   CC BY-SA 3.0   Alpha Stock Images Reconciliation is a very popular word these days. It comes out of the   commission appo...

Nalcor will have to replace about 350 fibreglass beams used in the Labrador-Island Link because of a fault in their manufacture. Nalcor di...

There is no good reason for governments to intervene in the oil sector even as much as they have.  It has nothing to do with the gibberish o...

Is *this* the real El Dorado? More than six months after they shut it down, the company that owns the Come by Chance oil refinery wants to s...

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Some observations on the state of the news media in Newfoundland and Labrador, circa 1988, from Dr. Susan McCorquodale,  "Newfoundland:...

  The public policy advantage of quantifying or estimating what the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador might get in revenue from Church...

  Laws suits get filed in court. Political claims for cash launch with a news conference, a website, and a deceptive news release that mis...

The New Colonialists don't look like the old ones The last day of September is known as Orange Shirt Day . It is a day to remember res...

Last week, the Liberal governments in Ottawa and St. John’s unleashed a bold new innovation in political announcements. Fridays used to be...

Mr. Justice Don Burridge (Not exactly as illustrated) Supporters of the travel ban won a victory last week as Supreme Court Justice Don Burr...

The Husky gambit last week presents the province’s leaders with a fundamental challenge.  Do we continue on the current path or do we change...

Lots of people are very worried and some are quite upset about the government's plan to re-open schools next week. There's more than...

Last week, testimony in the travel ban case by the province’s chief medical officer Dr. Janice Fitzgerald and epidemiologist Dr. Proton Ra...