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Showing posts with label Tom Rideout. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tom Rideout. Show all posts
09 August 2016

OCI dumps troubled shrimp plant on taxpayers #nlpoli

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Ocean Choice International is in better financial shape today, having successfully dumped a surplus shrimp processing facility on the people...
14 September 2012

Osborne quits Tory caucus #nlpoli

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Tom Osborne is part of the old townie Tory establishment in Newfoundland and Labrador. He quit Kathy Dunderdale’s party on Thursday to si...
24 November 2011

Suck it up, buttercup #nlpoli

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Ocean Choice international is a local fishing company.  The key players in the company are from the Sullivan family. You will recall one m...
12 October 2011

Here’s what an opposition party looks like #nlpoli

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The Conservatives won’t open the House of Assembly until the spring. Former Tory Premier Tom Rideout thinks it’s a bad idea, according to ...
08 September 2011

Rideout tags Tories for election pork-fest #nlpoli

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Former premier Tom Rideout didn’t mince words about the orgy of pork-barrel spending his former caucus colleagues have been pushing in the r...
19 October 2010

Tom Rideout: the audio version

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The former Premier who left Danny Williams’ cabinet in a huff and under fire from the Old Man himself had a chat with some students at Memo...
29 March 2010

Burdening our children with increased debt: fish centre costs escalate wildly

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An aquaculture centre that was supposed to have opened in 2009 for a cost of $4.2 million will now cost $8.8 million and construction isn’...
26 June 2009

“Stimulus”: price tag on delayed fisheries centre jumps 71% before construction starts

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That aquaculture veterinary facility promised by the provincial government to start in 2007 was originally supposed to cost $4.2 million. ...

Due diligence: Gaultois fish plant shut

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Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro chopped the power because of an unpaid bill by the previous owner. Provincial fisheries lifted the plant l...
01 May 2009

There’s a reason…

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people call her Blunderdale. Deputy premier Kathy Dunderdale has taken to answering opposition questions with an odd air of arrogance abo...
24 December 2008

Erasing the distinction, to our detriment

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Used to be, not so long ago, that public servants were different from political staff. The distinction was important as one served to keep...
02 September 2008

Backuppable Tom to run for federal Connies?

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The Family Feud could get infinitely more entertaining if local political rumours hold true. Former Provincial Conservative Premier Tom Ri...
20 December 2007

Telegram: Rideout comment's "factually inaccurate"

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From the Telegram online: Deputy premier Tom Rideout defended his $53-a-day per-diem spending in an open line radio appearance today,...
18 December 2007

The Williams Standard of Ministerial Propriety

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From The Telegram online edition: Asked by The Telegram whether that means the standard for ministers is that, as long as their acti...
16 December 2007

Be it ever so humble...

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... there's no place like the home office, apparently, for deputy premier Tom Rideout, right. An investigation by The Telegram reveal...
24 October 2007

The hard work of being Premier, another perspective

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And while Danny is off having a bit of a lark, the province has been left in the hands of this man, right , deputy Premier Tom Rideout. ...
22 September 2007

From the grassroots

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New technology is changing the face of public life and Newfoundland and Labrador is no exception. Well, at least Labrador anyway. Someone wi...
05 August 2007

Rideout defends 5K gift of public cash

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No surprise. Deputy premier Tom Rideout thinks it's just fine to hand out gifts of public money to groups in the province from money set...
16 July 2007

Chaos in Control

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There are times when deputy premier Tom Rideout seems to be channeling the late Don Adams in Adams' most famous role, that of Maxwell Sm...
23 June 2007

Backuppable Tom strikes again

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labradore wades into the controversy which your humble e-scribbler has aroused over the House of Assembly's decision to implement Chief...