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Showing posts with label Confederation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Confederation. Show all posts
24 February 2020

On the need for politics #nlpoli

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Politics [is] the art of pursuing common interests through... active listening, advocacy, public persuasion, compromise and negotiation. B...
01 April 2019

Gaslighting a society #nlpoli

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Saturday morning and Facebook delivered a video clip of Peter Mansbridge accepting a lifetime achievement award. After the obligatory tha...
25 September 2015

The N-word #nlpoli

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New Democratic Party leader Tom Mulcair likely never imagined that an insult he threw at a couple of Parti Quebecois politicians in the Queb...
01 April 2013

Federalism and the Newfoundlanders: 64th birthday edition #nlpoli

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April 1, 2013 marks the 64th anniversary of Newfoundland’s confederation with Canada. Here are a few older posts on the subject that stand...
25 February 2013

Copper-fastened #nlpoli

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According to the Telegram editorialist argued last week, this fuss over renovations was nothing at all. At any rate, renovations planned ...
28 November 2012

Save yourself a bundle #nlpoli

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A couple of decades ago, Greg Malone made a living lampooning an actor who decided to get into politics. Now the actor and comedian has de...
16 April 2012

Our Secret Nation #nlpoli

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Comedian Greg Malone is writing a book. The title is Don’t tell the Newfoundlanders:  the true story of Newfoundland’s Confederation with ...
01 April 2010

Happy Confederation Day!

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Signing of the Terms of Union between Newfoundland and Canada, December 1948. The union took effect shortly before midnight on March 31...
03 April 2009

Confederation 60: the panel discussion

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If you weren’t at the Confederation panel discussion on Wednesday night you’re bound to have no idea what actually happened. But if you w...
31 March 2009

Confederation 60: Federalism and the Newfoundlanders

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The 60th anniversary of Confederation in 1949 is gaining a fair bit of attention but not nearly as much as it should. The noisy minority ...

Confederation 60: Statement by the Leader of the Opposition

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Even as we sit here today, the bells of Parliament Hill in Ottawa are chiming the Ode to Newfoundland over the National Capital Region in ce...

Confederation 60: Todd Russell’s statement in the Commons

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Mr. Speaker, 60 years ago today just before midnight, Canada gained its tenth province and the people of Newfoundland and Labrador became Ca...

Confederation irksome: CP coverage

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From pseudo-separatist actor Greg Malone as told to Canadian Press : "It's [Confederation’s] a total failure," Malone say...

Confederation 60: old stuff

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1.  An old nottawa post that still rings true. 2.  “ This day in history ”, from Bond Papers , July 2008: This was a truly democra...

Confederation 60: thunder

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The accomplished fact of union shook the Newfoundland firmament like a clap of thunder.  From the very first morning that Newfoundlanders...
28 March 2009

Red flags in front of the bull

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The Telegram Saturday edition with huge attention paid to the 60th anniversary of Confederation. 1.  Before and after , the front pager w...
24 March 2009

Encounters with reality

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From the 1998 special Confederation anniversary edition of the Journal of Newfoundland and Labrador Studies , some food for thought for the ...
12 September 2008

Another bad day on the campaign trail

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Federal leader New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton and former provincial party leader Jack Harris have trouble blithely dismissing Ryan...
23 July 2007

The Confederation referendum and humour

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Every now and again you hear someone repeating the line that in 1948, Newfoundland (the "and Labrador" part came later) should hav...
22 July 2007

Summer fiction

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On the day after the last instalment in one of the most popular works of fiction in written times, comes this endorsement of one of the gre...