The Sir Robert Bond Papers

Danny Williams made the news last week. Williams was locked in a battle with St. John’s city hall over whether or not Williams could put a...

Mitigating the impacts Muskrat Falls will have on taxpayers of Newfoundland and Labrador remains the single biggest unanswered question in...

Sometimes the universe delivers you the magical set of circumstances you just can't ignore. Danny Williams turned up at the St. John&#...

" [The change in the province's financial outlook]  That's very dramatic ...Some people are going to stand back and say 'Oh...

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

For Newfoundland's pseudo-intellectuals,  the Toronto Globe and Mail is a kind of one-handed reading material.  They use one hand to sc...

The provincial government has been on its current course since about 2007.   There were three elements to the Conservatives agenda unde...

Churchill Falls occupies a unique place in Newfoundland and Labrador's political culture. Most of what people believe about Churchill ...

Forget everything else that you know about Muskrat Falls. The entire project hinged on Nalcor's ability to control water flows on the ...

Speaking about his popularity and the loyalty of his supporters: "They say that I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoo...

Nalcor chief executive Stan Marshall said so much last Friday about Muskrat Falls, it's probably true that most people couldn't poss...

Craig Westcott tells a story from his short stint as communications director for the Liberals in opposition in the last days of Danny Willia...

As the provincial Conservatives and New Democrats filibuster the levy bill in the House of Assembly that Winston Churchill quote about taxes...

In 2003, Paul Davis' predecessor as leader of the provincial Conservative party went to Ottawa to beg for a hand-out. Called it The N...

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...

The news release on the government’s generic offshore royalty  wasn’t exactly a model of clarity and accuracy. The headline and first sen...

“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 ...