The Sir Robert Bond Papers

In September 2008 ,  four cabinet ministers went to Harbour Grace to announce that the provincial government was giving the company $8.0 mil...

The Conservatives used to say that Newfoundland and Labrador was eastern North America’s energy warehouse.  Once Danny Williams ran for the ...

While an official with Corner Brook’s municipal government  understandably has to say wonderful things about the economy in the west coast c...

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

A “ forgivable loan ” is another way of saying that a private-sector company is getting a free gift of public-sector money. -srbp-

…who have suddenly discovered that the provincial economy is in serious need of diversification: a 2010 series called the Fragile Economy ....

In another great service to Newfoundland and Labrador, the country’s leading shit-disturber has translated poll results by Abacus Data int...

“In the fishery of the very near future,” SRBP wrote in February , “fishing subsidies like federal employment insurance wage subsidies,  sta...

“Government does not work on logic,” a wise man once told your humble e-scribbler.  “It works on the basis of history.” When faced with a ...

About four years ago, your humble e-scribbler pointed out a fundamental strategic problem with the way the provincial Conservatives spent m...

“When you wage an ideological war,” wrote Lana Payne this past weekend, “lies are necessary weapons.” Payne, for those who don’t know, is ...

In an interview with CBC’s David Cochrane , Premier Kathy Dunderdale said that the public service has grown by more than 2,100 jobs in the p...

The provincial government in Newfoundland and Labrador spends more per person on delivering services for most things than does any other pro...

Headline:  “ Grand Falls-Windsor growing without mill ”. Sounds marvellous. Then you read the story. Turns out that the central Newfou...

Some people are trying to make a controversy out of Premier Kathy Dunderdale’s recent comments that public sector unions should “expect a mo...

Only the naive or the demented would portray the looming labour crunch in the province as a “tremendous opportunity”. A report released o...

From labradore : In the five years since the recent-historic low, in early 2006, of about 55,600 public-sector employees, the public-s...

Our economic vision for Newfoundland and Labrador is that of an enterprising, educated, distinctive and prosperous people working togethe...

The Telegram’s James Macleod had a decent front page summary of the Harris Centre’s discussion of economic issues facing the province and t...

The government’s favourite economist is sounding alarm bells about the provincial government’s financial health.  The finance minister, on ...