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Showing posts with label Darin King. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Darin King. Show all posts
24 September 2015

That's Doctor King to you #nlpoli

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Not surprisingly, Darin King has decided to leave politics after only eight years. King is just the latest in a long line of pensionable C...
28 April 2015

Contending Political Strategies #nlpoli

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Starting last Friday, the ironically-named Conservatives currently running the place started holding a series of “pre-budget” announcements....
24 April 2015

You know things are going badly when… #nlpoli

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… you launch your election campaign at at huge fundraiser and your signature policy announcement gets slaughtered on Twitter within seconds ...
24 November 2014

Judge Headroom #nlpoli

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The Crown Prosecution Service lost an application last week to overturn a decision by a Provincial Court judge. That’s not the newsworthy ...
18 February 2014

Holding Pattern #nlpoli

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Justice minister Darin King bailed out of the Conservative Party leadership contest on Monday. King did it unceremoniously, on Twitter, de...
28 November 2013

Ministers confused about public money in stalled $100 million mine project #nlpoli

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In addition to the $17 million in public cash announced in 2011, the provincial government has given an additional undisclosed amount of pub...
08 October 2013

Much media ado about not very much #nlpoli

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On the face of it, anyone even passingly familiar with political events in Newfoundland and Labrador for the past decade would look with som...
07 June 2013

Get worried-er #nlpoli

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Here are a bunch of stories all of which would deserve a post of their own but that are presented here cut down to the barest of bare essent...
29 October 2012

The Self-Inflicted Wound #nlpoli

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When did the companies involved in the Hebron project sanction it? Anyone? Don’t google it. When did ExxonMobil and all those companie...

Darin King and the Tory Charm Offensive #nlpoli

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A couple of the exceedingly small changes in the recent cabinet shuffle came out of the Bill 29 fiasco.  Felix Collins went from the relativ...
03 July 2012

What the cod moratorium wrought #nlpoli

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The cod might be gone these 20 years but there are no shortage of people making a fine dollar telling us what it all means. Surely the one...
03 March 2012

Our plastic history, utter contempt version #nlpoli

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On Friday, the Telegram’s Brian Jones takes issue with fisheries minister Darin King: Fisheries Minister Darin King’s tantrum this we...
28 January 2012

Bad sign #nlpoli #cdnpoli

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The basic problem in the fishery is that the provincial fisheries minister has too much control over the industry and  - inevitably - tends ...
23 December 2010

Of Death Eaters and Horcruxes

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From deep inside the Conservative bunker this past couple of weeks have come one consistent set of stories. Someone doesn’t want to have a...
30 April 2010

The King and the Qatar Confusion

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According to education minister Darin King , employees at College of the North Atlantic in Qatar will see their contracts honoured, as it wo...
29 April 2010

Fortunately…the Qatar Version

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Fortunately for the employees of College of the North Atlantic – Qatar campus -   education minister Darin King always says exactly what he ...

Darin, King of Uncommunication

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Plenty of people in Newfoundland and Labrador are running around thinking that, as a result of a bureaucratic error,  a bunch of people at t...
24 August 2009

Can we get that in writing for the minister?

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Education minister Darin King seemed a wee bit confused about his own department’s policies in a recent macleans.ca story on competition am...