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Showing posts with label Great Gambols with Public Money. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Great Gambols with Public Money. Show all posts
09 May 2012

“A new Sprung Greenhouse”: one year later #nlpoli

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Since May 8 was the 25th anniversary of the announcement that the people of Newfoundland and Labrador were going into the cucumber business,...
02 June 2011

Give Danny the money

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Your humble e-scribbler is no fan of handing public cash to private sector companies for any reason. And make no mistake: when Danny Willi...
05 April 2011

A new Sprung Greenhouse in the wilds of Labrador

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Insecurity is not a good trait in leaders. Among local politicians it tends to come across with boasting or, in the more recent examples, ...
22 June 2010

A Crown corporation by any other name

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A company that has received almost $3.5 million in federal and provincial government money since 2006 is getting another $300,000 from the ...
21 March 2010

The Money Program

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Within the past 12 months, federal and provincial government sources have poured $2.0 million into a building expansion at Dynamic Air Shelt...
10 March 2010

The seven percent solution

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Mark Griffin , former traitor , spouts the new government policy for rural development which is, to be sure exactly the same policy as othe...
15 January 2010

Of Cukes and Unis

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Truly, things are very strange when the guy who backed a second university for the province  - despite evidence at the time of declining en...
26 August 2009

Great Gambols with Public Money: Sprung Cukes 4

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Cuke caper: Greenhouse fiasco rocks Newfoundland The Ottawa Citizen , Sunday January 15, 1989 by: Michael Harris Brian Peckfo...
19 August 2009

Great Gambols with Public Money: The Stunnel, Part Deux

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The sort of collective insanity that leads people to support incredibly asinine ideas like the Stunnel isn’t confined to any one political p...