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Showing posts with label Brian Peckford. Show all posts
22 October 2019

The Difference between Then and Now #nlpoli

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A few months ago, SRBP wrote a two-part piece that described the change in the way politicians, bureaucrats, and the public looked at mana...
08 April 2019

The Atlantic Accord: background to the 1985 agreement #nlpoli

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The Atlantic Accord functions in Newfoundland and Labrador politics in two ways.   There is the agreement between the Government of Canada ...
03 February 2016

From a decade of prosperity to $2 billion deficits: What happened?

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By Roger Grimes Reflecting upon becoming the eighth Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador 15 years ago this month, I found myself chatting ...
23 October 2012

Peckford Book Signings #nlpoli

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Because some people have asked, here is a list of upcoming book signing opportunities by Brian Peckford for his memoir Some day the sun will...
17 October 2012

The Power of Delusion #nlpoli

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Kathy Dunderdale gave a speech to the hundreds of Conservatives who gathered in Gander last weekend for their annual convention. The Teleg...
13 September 2012

Brian Peckford’s memoir now on sale #nlpoli

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Updated:  Book signing dates below The room at the Battery Hotel and Suites was packed with former politicians and public servants who wer...
15 January 2010

Of Cukes and Unis

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Truly, things are very strange when the guy who backed a second university for the province  - despite evidence at the time of declining en...
09 September 2009

Churchill Falls reversion fails for second time

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The Newfoundland and Labrador government  is making quick changes to a 2008 law after lawyers for the Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation...
16 August 2009

Great Gambols with Public Money: Sprung Cukes 2

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Another view of the Peckford Pickle Palace , this time with some questions which proved to be prophetic. Don't forget that at the time...
15 August 2009

Great Gambols with Public Money: Sprung Cukes

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Ah, how quickly they forget, these pleasant but heavily indebted, taxpaying people of Newfoundland and the sorry experience of governments t...
25 June 2009

Scuttling his own political future

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Senator Fabian Manning went a long way this week to ensuring he won’t be able to make a comeback in elected politics any time soon. The gu...
03 November 2008

The 800 megawatt controversy

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Former premier Brian Peckford tried to set the record straight today on a controversy over a deal in a the 1970s to bring 800 megawatts of p...
20 September 2008

"Reality Check" reality check on Equalization and the Family Feud

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The crew that put together's CBC's usually fine "Reality Check" can be forgiven if they missed a few points by a country m...
03 December 2007

Prawns as pawns? A nationalist never recognized the "national" interest.

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CBC Radio's fisheries broadcast has been carrying some commentary over the past couple weeks repeating the commonly held view that the ...
01 December 2007

Shut up and go away: the editor's reaction

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From Russell Wangersky comes a clean dissection of the provincial government's attack this past week on former premier Brian Peckford: ...
26 November 2007

Skinner-ma-rinky-dink opinions from two cabinet ministers not worth heeding

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Brian Peckford irritates some cabinet ministers. "I really think that we've really dropped the ball on the whole fishery issu...
23 April 2007

The politics of outrage runs aground

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From today's Globe ? Nope. Try February 23, 1983. Following is a Michael Harris piece that originally appeared in the Globe and Mail in...