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Showing posts with label Earle McCurdy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Earle McCurdy. Show all posts
03 February 2017

Full of sound and fury #nlpoli

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Pity Earle McCurdy.   The provincial New Democratic Party boss is rightly getting raked over the political coals  for his Twitter comment...
10 October 2016

Politics as masturbation #nlpoli

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"I am warning you.  Don't make me wear my pikachu costume." Demonstrations at Memorial University and at Nalcor headquar...
06 October 2016

Canada's Dippers: taking the democracy out of politics #nlpoli

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The guy who didn't know what electoral district he lived in  likes proportional representation. Provincial Dipper boss Earle " M...
07 November 2015

Downfall #nlpoli

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On Day Two of the official provincial general election campaign, a new poll by a different polling method lines up with the Abacus Data pol...
06 November 2015

Setting fire to your own ass is never a good idea #nlpoli

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While Paul Davis and the Conservatives were launching their official election campaign,  Ryan Cleary turned up in a recorded interview on NT...
02 November 2015

Blue balls #nlpoli

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Ryan Cleary didn’t become the punchline to any New Yorker cartoon at 3 :00 PM last Friday afternoon . Peg Norman and other local New Demo...
28 August 2015

Chainsaw Earle keeps austerity on the table #nlpoli

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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...
27 August 2015

NL NDP boss admits deeper “austerity” on the table as gov cash situation worsens #nlpoli

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“All options are going to have to be considered I guess, from both the revenue and the expenditure side, to make the best of a challenging s...
28 July 2015

The Grecian Formula and mineral rights #nlpoli

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In the late 1990s, the provincial government faced some tough financial times.  The debt and the size of the economy were the same number. T...
14 July 2015

It was Greek to me #nlpoli

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After days of intense talks,  the Europeans apparently have finally reached a final deal to help Greece out of its latest financial misery. ...
20 June 2015

What district is Earle in, again? #nlpoli

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Since the bill to change provincial districts cleared the House last week,  the provincial New Democrats have been tweeting sanctimoniously ...
09 June 2015

A lot can change in three months #nlpoli

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The Liberals and the Conservatives dropped in the most recent Corporate Research Associates poll and all that vote went to the New Democrat...
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....
09 March 2015

Gimme that Old-Time Reaction #nlpoli

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The only news to come out of the New Democratic Party convention this past weekend is that the party now has not one but two leaders. Earl...
18 February 2012

Protesting too much? #nlpoli

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FFAW boss Earle McCurdy responded on Friday to comments by OCI’s Martin Sullivan that the FFAW, among other things, had threatened to shut O...