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Showing posts with label "stimulus". Show all posts
Showing posts with label "stimulus". Show all posts
10 August 2010

Williams-era capital spending pales in historical terms

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Danny Williams is proud of how much money his administration spends, like, for instance, the amount spent on roads, bridges, schools and oth...
09 August 2010

Connies and "stimulus"

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According to the parliamentary budget officer , capital works projects funded by the federal government's stimulus program are far enoug...
08 July 2010

Are you smarter than a cheese grater, now?

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Remember that fisheries research cash announcement that seemed to have been cobbled together within the past six weeks? Well, there’s a b...
29 March 2010

Burdening our children with increased debt: fish centre costs escalate wildly

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An aquaculture centre that was supposed to have opened in 2009 for a cost of $4.2 million will now cost $8.8 million and construction isn’...
20 December 2009

Yipppeee! Bring on those higher energy prices

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From the New York Times : In 2009, some 31,000 households in Rhode Island will have their utilities shut off, and the effort to juggle...
21 October 2009

Oil and the budget

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The provincial government seems to be in one of those strange places it goes every now and then. It’s a world where the messages are decid...
26 June 2009

“Stimulus”: price tag on delayed fisheries centre jumps 71% before construction starts

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That aquaculture veterinary facility promised by the provincial government to start in 2007 was originally supposed to cost $4.2 million. ...

Due diligence: Gaultois fish plant shut

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Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro chopped the power because of an unpaid bill by the previous owner. Provincial fisheries lifted the plant l...