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Showing posts with label Joan Burke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joan Burke. Show all posts
13 March 2012

Kremlinology 39: What Burke didn’t say #nlpoli

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In defending the $140,000 –a-year patronage job she gave to former Tory candidate John Noseworthy, advanced skills minister Joan Burke told ...
13 September 2011

An ex-Premier scorned #nlpoli

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Not content merely to discuss his nomination of Elizabeth Matthews for a seat on the offshore regulatory board, Danny Williams took some pre...
13 January 2011

Cabinet Shuffle Bored

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The back room plan to slide Kathy Dunderdale into the Premier’s job isn’t going so well. The Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight is back sho...
16 December 2009

The die is cast aside

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“The die is cast!” That’s what then-education minister Joan Burke said back in 2007 when the current provincial administration unveiled i...
11 December 2009

Rorke’s other Drift

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The present advocate reviewed the case again - and I cannot speak for the advocate, only what was given to me - he felt that the review was ...
10 December 2009

“The overriding and paramount consideration…”

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[One of the fundamental changes we have to make, Mr. Speaker, is our legislation. We have to review the legislation; we have to amend it....
15 October 2009

The search for a university president: compare and contrast

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At McMaster, they started hunted in January and 10 months later came up with a winner. At Memorial,  it has already taken almost 10 month...
15 June 2009

Freedom from information: lack of briefing notes for minister called “bizarre” by senior government official

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An unnamed senior public sector manager has termed a move by government to eliminate briefing notes for ministers “bizarre”. The official ...
24 January 2009

The joy of giving

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The new chair of the board of governors at College of the North Atlantic – headquarters in Stephenville – just happens to be the top contrib...
14 November 2008

No sense of shame

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From a news release by government House leader Joan Burke in an announcement that the provincial legislature would re-open for its fall sitt...
16 October 2008

The Blue Shaft

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Narrow partisan considerations reared their ugly head in a meeting of the legislature's management committee. An independent study co...
09 September 2008

Autonomy? What university autonomy?

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A statement on university autonomy released this morning was sent to reporters without sign-off from Memorial University. Pretty much pro...
13 August 2008

Memorial University crisis: it just keeps getting worse

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Danny Williams, former Rhodent, should have known that academics are not ones to take his usual blather as if it were gospel. No surprise ...
06 August 2008

Pull the other one, the MUN version

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His latest version of events doesn't match any of the other versions, including his own earlier version. There is no effort to pull bac...
03 August 2008

Oh yeah, Pam's fried...just like a whole raft more

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Telegram editor Pam Frampton has been writing about the Memorial University thing for some time now. Her column on Sunday is not for the...
02 August 2008

A small but significant distinction

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The Telegram's Russell Wangersky gives cabinet some good advice this rainy Saturday in order to avoid what he describes as "bonehe...

The Looking Glass Cabinet

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"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone," it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more...
01 August 2008

Into the deep

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The provincial government's crisis with Memorial University got just that much deeper today. Op-ed pieces in the province's larges...
31 July 2008

Regents chair has splainin' to do; high jump in his future?

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According to an education department spokesperson , board of regents chair Gil Dalton gave the short list of candidates to education minist...

And then the crisis deepens...

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Like no one saw this coming . 1.  Former education minister Chris Decker : "I can only see one possible way to redeem this, is f...