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Showing posts with label Shawn Skinner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shawn Skinner. Show all posts
17 March 2014

The Insiders #nlpoli

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The story of the 2014 provincial Conservative Party leadership contest is a study in politics on its most basic level. It is a story of th...
11 September 2013

Skinner and the useless provincial lobby law #nlpoli

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Shawn Skinner used to be a provincial cabinet minister. Now he works for a construction company trying to get a major contract at Muskrat ...
12 September 2011

Williams set to offer comms director plum patronage job before he quit #nlpoli

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In his final days as Premier, Danny Williams was poised to offer Elizabeth Matthews  - his communications director – a plum patronage appoin...
26 August 2011

Three MF Amigos split up #nlpoli

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Liberal leader Kevin Aylward may have personally been waffling about Muskrat Falls a week or so ago, but his position has shifted: An A...
07 July 2011

Okay, so it wasn’t a bus after all

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But that doesn’t mean natural resources minister Shawn Skinner escaped completely unscathed from his episode on Backtalk on Wednesday. Her...

Skinner throws AG under bus

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[ Updated in another post ] Natural resources minister Shawn Skinner threw outgoing Auditor General John Noseworthy under the bus on Wedne...
05 July 2011

Skinner makes false statement in letter to Telegram editor

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Natural resources minister Shawn Skinner is writing more letters to the editor of the Telegram these days that the former Open Line hydro q...
19 April 2011

Risky Business

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Natural resources minister Shawn Skinner has a letter to the editor   in the Telegram criticising former Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro dir...
14 April 2011

Making the people pay more for electricity

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Take a gander at Hansard for Wednesday and you’ll see an interesting series of questions put to Shawn Skinner about the settlement in the S...
05 April 2011

Mother Corp news geniuses are NL electricity price gurus

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No, this is not an April Fool’s joke almost a week late. In answering a question on the source for government electricity price forecasts ...
30 March 2011

ABC Comedy Central: The Skinner File

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From the annals of the Anything But Conservative Campaign there’s this little bit of independence displayed by current natural resources min...
28 March 2011

Bond Papers readers know more than provincial energy minister

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Both the federal and Quebec provincial governments may have released the text of their agreement on underwater resources in the Gulf of St. ...
22 February 2011

Atlantic energy co-operation: where Lower is higher

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Natural resources minister Shawn Skinner is in Halifax talking energy co-operation with his counterparts in the Maritime provinces. Odd t...
16 September 2009

Sullivan and Michael both wrong about government commitment to anti-scab legislation

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New Democratic Party leader Lorraine Michael claimed that Danny Williams committed to introduce a law banning replacement workers during st...
26 May 2009

But did he bring any seal products with him?

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INTRD minister Shawn Skinner is in Europe this week on a junket promoting the Atlantic Canada gateway to Europeans. The event is in Antwe...
30 November 2007

What will the meeting bring?

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The meeting between Danny Williams and Stephen Harper later on Friday afternoon? One of the possibilities is a rapprochement between the su...
08 November 2007

Skinner's words: update

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Offal News posted an audio recording of human resources minister Shawn Skinner's profuse apology and backtracking exercise discussed ea...

In his own words: Shawn Skinner on federal-provincial relations

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Jonathan Crowe: But I mean, your boss is saying "Anybody But Conservative" in the next election. That's gotta be difficult...