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Showing posts with label Paul Oram. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paul Oram. Show all posts
27 November 2013

The 2013 Harbour Grace Affray #nlpoli

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Kathy Dunderdale told reporters on Tuesday, while the polls were still open mind you, that the by-election results would be no big thing. ...
02 May 2012

Diversifying the economy and slowing things down #nlpoli

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Paul Oram was a colourful politician. Well, colourful in the sense that he flamed out very quickly.  Regular readers of these scribbles wi...
27 January 2012

The old cabinet documents ploy #nlpoli #cdnpoli

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Premier Kathy Dunderdale and her ministers refuse to hand over documents on more than $5.0 billion in public works spending by the Conservat...
03 November 2009

And then another EA steps up…

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Sandy Collins , former executive assistant to Paul Oram is the provincial Conservative candidate in Terra Nova in the by-election yet to be...

That’s one way to stop the bleeding

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The House of Assembly pay and compensation commission got its report in on time and out the door very quickly.  While few people noticed ...
27 October 2009

Libs win Straits

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Marshall Dean took the by-election in the Straits and White Bay North this evening against Premier Danny Williams, just about all the provi...
25 October 2009

Kremlinology 10: Ah to be a Tory in Gander in October, when the dogs are fit to wag

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When the political going gets tough, what better way to handle it than to launch a phoney jihad against a completely imaginary enemy over a...
21 October 2009

Oram and Williams tell radically different versions of departure story

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Even in Paul Oram’s political death, he and Danny Williams can’t get on the same page. Asked about Oram’s resignation, Danny Williams told...
18 October 2009

Paul Oram: busted

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We knew Paul Oram’s comments the day he left politics were complete hogwash. labradore refutes him, point by point .  And he adds the pic...
07 October 2009

Kremlinology 6: the curious last days of Paul Oram

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On September 10, 2009, then health minister Paul Oram gave a version of the health care cuts decision that contradicted what his boss was sa...

No slack for Oram from reporters

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Paul Oram left politics entirely today blaming ill health and the news media who apparently hounded him and his family. That second one n...

Breaking: Oram to commit hara kiri?

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Embattled health minister Paul Oram is holding a newser in 15 minutes to discuss his political fate. That’s usually code for announcing hi...
23 September 2009

The Kings of Cuts

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There’s something about Paul Oram that just seems so familiar. Maybe it’s his similarities to the equally-perfectly coifed predecessor, Ll...
22 September 2009

Just bear in mind…

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the guy who is trying to explain health care decisions is the same guy who is clued out about a bunch of other things. He’s also gotten ...
15 September 2009

Way less for way more in Lewisporte

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While everyone is talking about the removal of laboratory and x-ray services from Lewisporte, a much larger cut seems to have escaped publi...
13 September 2009

Questions in search of answers

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Just a few observations on announcements from the province’s health ministry lately. 1.  labradore points out that others – like the loca...
10 September 2009

Oram and Williams give wildly contradictory accounts of Lewisporte decision

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As a sharp-eared reader picked up, the raw video of the Premier’s scrum revealed that Lewisporte MHA Wade Verge knew about cuts to health s...
23 July 2009

For want of a nail: cabinet ministers and conflict of interest version

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The issues raised by the Paul Oram case just got a whole lot worse, politically: …Oram replied that "if you look at any business ...
22 July 2009

Better late than never: Oram version

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The province’s health minister putting his business interests in a blind trust. The issue arose when Oram  - who owns two personal care ho...
10 July 2009

Paul Oram: Minister of Revisionist History

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Former business minister Paul Oram did a series of interviews when he was in Atlanta last October to attend a trade mission. His intervi...