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Showing posts with label Dwight Ball. Show all posts
03 November 2020

Reality Control #nlpoli

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The Memory Hole Nineteen eighty-four is popular these days. People think that the ideas in the book like the memory hole are modeled on c...
03 August 2020

The Walking Dead Duck

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This evening Liberals will elect a new leader. And about two weeks from now – likely Friday, August 14 – the new leader will take the oath...
02 April 2020

Bollocks #nlpoli

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Kill the wabbit? Moody’s has changed its outlook on the provincial government’s debt from stable to negative while sustaining the A1 r...
30 March 2020

All around in circles #nlpoli

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Going around in circles must be frustrating. Plummeting crude prices have dropped refining margins to negative numbers and so it is...
23 March 2020

Experience Counts - COVID Economic Balls-Up Edition #nlpoli

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Update:   The links below don't work any more. Both the screwed up one (March 20) and the revised one (March 21) appear to have dis...
10 December 2019

Transitory Records #nlpoli

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In dealing with one aspect of the business of getting Carla Foote from Executive Council to The Rooms,  deputy minster Ted Lomond suggested ...
27 November 2019

A mouthful of burp #nlpoli

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Not one mitigation scheme. Not two mitigation schemes. Three mitigation schemes. Delivered by the end of January. All wo...
25 November 2019

The Rookies, the House, and the Orchestra Pit #nlpoli

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What is reported is seldom what happened even though what happened is far more interesting than the stuff that falls into the orchestra pit...
18 September 2019

Dippers go home #nlpoli

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The latest quarterly poll from Narrative Research shows that a gaggle of folks who were likely New Democratic Party supporters returned to...
16 September 2019

More to the Trimper Affair #nlpoli

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The most important implications of the Trimper Affair escaped notice. _____________________________________ In the midst of all the...
03 September 2019

The Political Doldrums #nlpoli

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Last week,   Newfoundlanders and Labradorians got a few reminders of the magnitude of the political problem they face in addition to the f...
19 August 2019

Captain Dildo, Dwight Ball, and the New Approach to Old Stereotypes #nlpoli

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Last week, the Premier’s Office sent out a picture of the Premier standing next to the mascot of a town in Newfoundland and Labrador. ...
12 July 2019

The Slaughterhouse Five #nlpoli

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Coupled with comparable high rates of staff changes in the senior ranks of the public service,  unprecedented staff turn-over in a critical...
03 January 2019

Mitigating Muskrat Falls: Ron, Harry, and Hermione are still baffled #nlpoli

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Mitigating the impacts Muskrat Falls will have on taxpayers of Newfoundland and Labrador remains the single biggest unanswered question in...
21 February 2017

Paddon's report on Martin contract just bizarre #nlpoli

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After a lengthy review,  Auditor General Terry Paddon said Monday that the provincial government hounded former Nalcor boss Ed Martin out of...
30 January 2017

Duff in the hole encore #nlpoli

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Oh dear. The CBC has gone off to the mainland to get Duff Conacher to make a comment about the need for political finance reform in Newfo...
06 January 2017

Putting the sunk in sunk cost #nlpoli #cdnpoli

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Muskrat Falls is basically an $800 million tax on the people of Newfoundland and Labrador. That's roughly the amount you get using numbe...
14 December 2016

Brutal #nlpoli

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Any Liberals who thought they were out of the political woods got a harsh reminder of the truth on Tuesday. Their leader remains as unpopu...
08 December 2016

Poll numbers not very comforting #nlpoli

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A little over a month ago,  only about 16 or 17 percent of respondents told pollsters they thought Dwight Ball was the best choice for Premi...
05 December 2016

Mazel Tov Cocktails #nlpoli

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Scottie Nell Hughes is one of the legion of ident-a-bots who turned up on news programs during the recent American election spouting lines f...