Five for Friday Round-UP

To round out the week, here are five curious posts on different subjects to send you off into the weekend.

And don’t forget this Saturday* is Guy Fawkes Day.

1. Via Crooked Timber, a post at the New Statesman about the particularly abusive comments hurled at women bloggers.
2. Maybe provincial justice minister Felix Collins and his provincial Conservative colleagues should just suck it up and stop whining about the costs of the federal Conservatives’ omnibus crime bill.  After all, Felix and the gang campaigned for the harper crowd. And it’s not like the provincial Conservatives didn’t know about the crime bill before they voted.
3. This is is a practical way to promote bras.
4. One the one hand Scotiabank’s chief economist thinks everything in Newfoundland and Labrador will be ducky over the next five years.
5. And on the other hand, money is moving from commodities – like oil – into credit.  Do those two things go together?

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*  Not Sunday

The Force

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Feds take out radio, newspaper ads challenging NL Premier

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives are hitting back at the premier of Newfoundland with radio and newspaper ads, The Canadian Press has learned.

The feds will respond to Danny Williams, who ran ads of his own last week accusing them of breaking a promise to his province with the recent federal budget.

The ads will begin running Tuesday, according to an internal government memo.

The memo includes talking points for Tory MPs when speaking about the federal-provincial imbroglio, including: Ottawa never broke its promise, Newfoundland and Labrador gets more money under the budget, and Danny Williams just wants a special deal which would be unfair to other provinces.

The budget has angered Newfoundland and Nova Scotia because it says they can only access a newer, more generous equalization program if they give up the Atlantic Accord.

That accord, signed with the previous Liberal government, excluded offshore oil revenues from equalization calculations.

Update: The Canadian Press version here.

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