The Sir Robert Bond Papers

You know that the local news media are hard up for stories when they  post the musings about the current budget of somebody from Newfoundlan...

Paul Davis wasn’t around on Tuesday night to talk to reporters about the by-elections.  He had a family medical problem to deal with. So t...

Friday is trash day in the world of political communications. It’s the day when you slip out stuff that is unpleasant in the hopes people wi...

Finance minister Charlene Johnson will be leaving politics on Friday, September 5. Under changes that Johnson and her colleagues made to ...

The story flopped out on Friday morning,  broken by VOCM, based presumably on information that came directly from Charlene Johnson herself. ...

While people have been agitated about comments on Twitter,  the Premier has been dazzling the politicians in the House with his explanation ...

This year it is Charlene Johnson’s turn to host a series of meetings across the province that the provincial Conservatives cynically tout a...

This post originally appeared February 27, 2008 at The Persuasion Business : Johnny Cab is a clever character in the 1990 movie Total Reca...

The back room plan to slide Kathy Dunderdale into the Premier’s job isn’t going so well. The Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight is back sho...

Environment minister Charlene Johnson is delaying a decision to permit Corner Brook Pulp and Paper to burn used car and truck tires as a fue...

Kathy Dunderdale might not be too worried about the environmental impacts of an offshore oil spill.  Charlene Johnson might have trouble f...

It’s a pretty rare day when the likes of Charlene Johnson can score a major political blow but land one the provincial environment minister...

Sometimes it seems as if Gus Portokalos’ brother wound up running the Newfoundland and Labrador government. While Gus wanted to put windo...

One of the great things about summer for perpetual campaigning is that cabinet ministers can spit out sheer nonsense and reporters for the l...

“Five key bridges in the western portion of the T’Railway Provincial Park that closed in 2008 are now re-opened to park users. … [The fiv...

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

Charlene Johnson, by some accounts the province’s environment minister, answering a question in the House of Assembly about a potential oi...

Sometimes it’s hard to know which is funnier:  environment minister Charlene Johnson’s repeated attempts to be arrogant and condescending ev...

While his embattled environment minister blustered and stuck to the old line during Question Period, outside the legislature Premier Danny W...

CBC may have retracted its story about the provincial government and possible lead pollution at a former mine in Buchans but that isn’t the ...