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Showing posts with label Newfoundland politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Newfoundland politics. Show all posts
10 March 2020

NL after the oil boom and hydro bust #nlpoli

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Newfoundland and Labrador Historical Society George Story Lecture and Annual General Meeting Marine Institute - Hampton Hall The R...
24 February 2020

On the need for politics #nlpoli

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Politics [is] the art of pursuing common interests through... active listening, advocacy, public persuasion, compromise and negotiation. B...
08 May 2018

First Wells ministry, 05 May 1989 #nlpoli

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May 5, 1989 was a Friday.  It only took the couple of weeks between the election on April 20 that year and May 5 for the government to...
08 September 2016

Dependence and Independence #nlpoli

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For those who might be interested,  Tuesday's post on Churchill Falls and Wednesday's post on the road to Muskrat Falls are a summa...
02 August 2016

Gandhi, Mandela, and a guy in a chicken suit #nlpoli

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If the provincial New Democrats had sent a garden gnome around the province, odds are that the photos he'd have brought back would be ...
15 November 2015

The possible shift #nlpoli

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If the polls are right, we could be looking at an unprecedented shift in politics in Newfoundland and Labrador. We could be looking at lot...
02 July 2015

The Great War and Newfoundland Political Memory #nlpoli

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“It is sobering to think,”  historian Sean Cadigan wrote in the Telegram on Tuesday, “that the memory of the casualties of war has been use...
21 August 2014

Identity Crisis #nlpoli

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Newfoundland is changing, Michael Crummey writes in the Newfoundland nationalists’ newspaper, the Globe and Mail.   House prices are climbin...
18 November 2013

Remembering… or not #nlpoli

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The news release that announced a provincial commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the First World War includes right at the start a pi...
12 November 2012

Some Thoughts on Politics, Myth, and Identity #nlpoli

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Your humble e-scribbler saw a couple of comments last week that said the NDP town hall on Muskrat Falls was a good argument against having a...
04 July 2012

Beaumont Hamel and the Newfoundland nation #nlpoli

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Mark Humphries is an historian at Memorial University.  He spoke with CBC’s Chris O’Neill-Yates on July 1 about the impact of Beaumont Hame...
09 May 2012

A river runs through it #nlpoli

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Jerry Bannister’s paper “A river runs through it:  Churchill Falls and the end of Newfoundland history” is now available in the latest issue...