The Sir Robert Bond Papers

Donald Trump says he won't even take one dollar  in salary as president. Sounds familiar. In Newfoundland and Labrador,  Proto-Trump...

The crowd running this place these days has an unrivalled ability to look at a problem and find the worst possible response imaginable. On...

Danny Williams promised he would never cut a deal on the Lower Churchill with Hydro-Quebec unless it included redress for the 1969 contract....

Rob Strong has been a key player in the local oil and gas industry pretty much since the earliest days.  He knows what he is talking abo...

  “It was a previous Liberal government that wanted to actually privatize Hydro. This particular government wants to strengthen Hydro, wan...

“A positive, optimistic, hopeful vision of public life isn’t a naive dream,”  Justin Trudeau told Canadians after he won a truly historic vi...

  In 2004, Danny Williams fought for three months against a federal government decision that had been settled – at least for the federal g...

Any oil company seriously interested in bidding on an exploration license offshore Newfoundland and Labrador isn’t likely to need the hyped ...

NDP leader Earle McCurdy called the province’s major open line show on Thursday and by the sounds of things he hasn’t backed off the positio...

A couple of years after his war with one prime minister, Danny Williams was locked in another war with another federal first minister. Wil...

Every story told thus far about Ches Crosbie and the riding in Avalon has the unmistakeable odour of bullshit about it. The latest twist, ...

It didn’t take long for Paul Davis to get the comparison he was looking for last week. The Telegram - not surprisingly – offered it up in...

In the 1980s, local entrepreneur Craig Dobbin bought a batch of helicopter service companies across Canada and merged them with his own comp...

The Liberals kept poking at Premier Paul Davis in the House of Assembly on Wednesday about the European free trade deal announced last year ...

You really do have to wonder how anyone could be expected to keep things straight when the people they rely on to help them understand keep ...

Danny Williams’ hockey team tried a little marketing ploy this week.  They sent out a bulletin to news media disguised as a news release.  ...

Perhaps it is just Danny Williams’ ingratitude that pisses people off. The multi-millionaire hockey team owner just got a massive subsidy ...

Danny Williams famously once said that at some point,  “ principle converts to cash.” When his old friend Tom Marshall named a court house...

A decade ago,  the offshore regulatory board reduced its estimate of the recoverable reserves in the Terra Nova field from 405 million barre...

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