The Sir Robert Bond Papers

If you get any kind of enjoyment at all out of watching people tie themselves in knots,  point out to a New Democrat that their party suppor...

In the end there was something perfectly fitting in the way New Democrats dumped their failed leader. Every pundit around and lots of New ...

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

You can tell the election is already going on.  You can tell because of what some of the political workers are doing. The Liberals are goi...

Any of the small, local printing companies who usually make a fair bit of cash from political campaigns can keep their printing presses chil...

Gerry Rogers is smiling again now that Earle McCurdy has agreed to be the NDP Kevin Aylward. If Earle had decided to stay retired,  Gerry ...

For its last editorial of 2014,  the Telegram decided to discuss the fate of the province’s New Democrats. A quick summary:  things were...

Back at the start of the current Conservative administration in 2003, they were very sharply aware of the problem with using one-time revenu...

In 2010,  the provincial Conservatives had a chance to reinvigorate their party in time for the 2011 general election.  They deliberately st...

Politics is often about compromise. Compromises are great when they work. They suck when they don’t. The provincial New Democrats spen...

Four members of a political caucus don’t usually demand their leader’s resignation unless they had a reason... or a bunch of reasons that bu...

At the end of the first full day of the political crisis inside the New Democratic Party, the people of Newfoundland and Labrador learned mo...

Sometimes political party leaders get to chose how they leave the job. Other times they don’t. The Liberals punted Leo Barry out of the ...

Among the oldest of old Canadian political jokes is that you went to the Tory conventions to drink, the Liberal conventions to get laid, and...

In a meeting of the committee that manages the business affairs for the House of Assembly, the Tories approved an additional $150,000 for th...

those who are interested in education policy and the current election campaign will be fascinated by a chunk of one conversation that broke ...

Your humble e-scribbler said it most recently just a few days ago : The two opposition parties are less concerned about the financial c...

If they accidentally accumulate enough credits to a form a government after the next election, the provincial New Democrats will keep taxing...

So with the Liberal meeting in Ottawa, the idea of uniting the left is coming back around again. Not surprisingly, Liberal leader Bob rar...

Ryan Cleary won’t be carrying the New Democratic Party banner in the next federal election. Cleary ran for the party in St. John’s South-...