The Sir Robert Bond Papers

If we had Equalization, we'd have a budget surplus. On Friday, 20 Mar 20, Premier Dwight Ball wrote to the Prime minister to say t...

Left to Right:  Bill Doody,  Brian Peckford, John Crosbie, Jane Crosbie, and Beth Crosbie at the 1983 federal PC leadership convention ...

Lunacy is always easier to spot in other people. There is a Liberal conspiracy to rob Alberta of its precious fluids. People in Ne...

Each year,  Canadian media conduct year-end interviews with politicians and every year the interviews are nothing but space fillers. This ...

Since December 2015 ,  Dwight Ball has been talking about the federal government as the source of cash he wants to tap into. Specifically ...

Premier Dwight Ball has talked about it. CBC's Peter Cowan tweeted about it Sunday night. If only we were like all those lucky provi...

The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador is in financial trouble. It will spend this year about $3.0 billion more than it will take in....

Of all the people in Canada who know something about the Equalization system,. none of them sit in the House of Assembly. Item:   Kevin Hu...

“There was a very good job done … of boxing this province out [of the Equalization program] a few years ago,” That was Premier Dwight Ball...

The federal government would run a deficit this year three times larger next year than the one the Liberals expected during the election cam...

A curious thing happens in societies where a huge amount of the collective income derives from outside the local economy and the local tax b...

Equalization is a really simple idea. In order to ensure that Canadians across the country have access to comparable services regardless o...

At the heart of the ongoing civil war between Danny Williams’ provincial Conservatives and Stephen Harper’s federal Conservatives is the cla...

Over at cbc.ca/nl, John Gushue has an excellent column on the recent prosperity , in particular the apparent contradiction between a suppose...

The federal government is considering changes to the Equalization program and the way it assess revenue from hydro-electricity, according to...

Over at nottawa, Mark draws attention to the most recent provincial government position on the federal shares in Hibernia, namely that the ...

Listening to Tom Marshall blame the current provincial government budget deficit on the federal government’s changes to Equalization last wi...

Oil production in the first four months of fiscal 2009 is down about 23.5%   - on average - compared to the same period in 2008. But Hiber...

The premier’s excuses for not participating in talks on a European trade deal just get more bizarre as time goes by. First there was the w...

Go to the Globe and Mail website. Try and find a story from the February 11 edition by Rheal Seguin on a supposed border flap between Que...