The Sir Robert Bond Papers

Without a doubt,  this is the most interesting, entertaining and revealing thing to come out of the Conservative leadership campaign. This...

Justice minister Terry French announced on Thursday that he’d be resigning in a couple of weeks time to take up a job in the private sector...

Wednesday morning started with an intriguing but hardly surprising story. CBC’s David Cochrane tweeted that sources in the John Ottenheime...

In any delegated political convention, you need to elect delegates in each of the districts who will vote for your candidate at the leadersh...

One of the great things about political campaigns is that the players have a chance to surprise observers. We saw that in the Liberal leader...

A couple of years ago,  Liberal leader Dwight Ball said the Liberals would use earnings from Muskrat Falls to lower electricity prices for c...

If you are one of the political savants who thinks that dominating Twitter makes for a modern, inspired, and successful political leadership...

By the end of the week,  Premier Tom Marshall will be short at least two cabinet ministers. Paul Davis quit as health minister on Wednesda...

By the end of the week, the provincial Conservatives will have the leadership race they deliberately avoided the last time out.  That’s the ...

You’ll likely hear a lot of talk from Conservatives over the next few weeks about their “grassroots.”  Trevor Taylor, for one mentioned th...

The news on Monday was not Frank Coleman’s announcement. The news was in the reaction of provincial Conservatives to word that Coleman wou...

The Alberta Conservatives are looking for a new leader. The old one quit last month amid a caucus revolt and a loss of popularity in polls. ...

Bill Barry, in the Western Star , on the Conservative leadership show he quit on Thursday: “I just chose to recognize that the leader h...

Frank Coleman told an audience of reporters and supporters in Corner Brook on Wednesday that he was in the Conservative Party leadership ra...

The story of the 2014 provincial Conservative Party leadership contest is a study in politics on its most basic level. It is a story of th...

“On the outside, Shawn Skinner and John Ottenheimer are still mulling it over, “wrote Des Sullivan last Thursday . “The price tag of running...

[Includes Hamlet update] If David Cochrane’s sources are right,  Danny Breen won’t be running for the Conservatives in Virginia Waters aft...

The provincial New Democrats have dropped to single digits among respondents to the latest Corporate Research Associates quarterly omnibus ...

Digging through a set of files in the provincial archives once upon a time, your humble e-scribbler came across a particular file in a set b...

In 1979 and 1989, using pretty much the same party constitution as they have now, the provincial Conservatives in Newfoundland and Labrador ...