Pages

▼
Showing posts with label Bill Rowe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bill Rowe. Show all posts
13 September 2016

A no-holds-barred review #nlpoli

›
Bill Rowe started out with a bright future. Rhodes scholar. Youngest cabinet minister in the province's history. Leader of the Li...
22 October 2014

Get the police out of politics and politics out of the police #nlpoli

›
They just don’t look like recruiting ads . That’s the most striking thing about a series of television ads airing in Newfoundland and Labr...
02 October 2013

The Elizabeth Towers Fire Inquiry #nlpoli

›
Enough of you have found the introduction to the Elizabeth Towers fire investigation report to drive it into the Top 10 list. To make it e...
11 January 2012

The real story of the Ottawa office #nlpoli

›
Nobody’s been in the job since since January 2010. There’s no evidence that the two people who held the job actually did anything substant...
09 August 2011

Not quite the same situation

›
Curious to see Here and Now running a clip of Don Jamieson returning to lead the Liberal party in 1979 after Bill Rowe resigned. It’s not...
07 November 2010

Some loveable turncoats

›
‘In Newfoundland politics,”  wrote Bill Rowe, “you haven’t lost your political virginity unless you’ve knifed your own party in the back and...
16 October 2010

Damning with faint praise

›
It’s an easy and quick read, if that’s part of your criteria for literary entertainment, although there’s nothing particularly revealing ...
23 June 2010

Rowe book due this fall. Why?

›
Danny Williams’ former personal envoy to Hy’s tossed out a few bon mots to those listening to the province’s Open Line show on a sunny Wedn...
22 February 2010

The Elizabeth Towers Fire Inquiry – The Question of Justification

›
Continued from Part 3 – The Release of the Reports of the Investigation Paragraph (1) (b) of the Terms of Reference of this Commission o...
21 February 2010

The Elizabeth Towers Fire Inquiry – the Release of the Reports of the Investigation

›
Continued from Part 2 – The Elizabeth Towers Fire and its Investigation I must now turn to the evidence relating directly to the release o...
19 February 2010

Elizabeth Towers Fire Inquiry – The Elizabeth Towers Fire and its Investigation

›
Continued from Part 1 – Introduction and Commission This Commission of Enquiry was appointed because of the publication of two police repo...
16 February 2010

Elizabeth Towers Fire Inquiry – Intro/Commission

›
First Report Public Enquiry into Release and Publication of Police Reports into Fire at Elizabeth Towers, St. John’s Submitted ...
20 October 2007

Who ya gonna listen to? Me or your friends?

›
Adios, Bill Rowe . After what seems like an eternity, Rowe won't be writing his weekly column in the Telegram any more. Have a nice...
13 October 2007

Save three minutes

›
Read Mark Watton's summary of the latest Bill Rowe column rather than read it in the original. -srbp-
01 September 2007

The Spleen Vents Live!

›
One Bond Papers reader was inspired enough by The Spleen to offer an audio mix of some choice moments from Backtalk. With the marvels of mo...
06 May 2007

On the horns of a nationalist dilemma

›
Meanwhile, things in Newfoundland cannot be going too well, if columnists not normally given to doubting the Premier find themselves doing ...
21 April 2007

A veritable GPS to the butts of the politically powerful

›
From the Telegram , Bill Rowe demonstrates once again that he is good at nothing else if not sucking up to autocrats. Hence his successfu...