The Sir Robert Bond Papers

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

When we do not talk about the most vulnerable people in our society – sex workers and people in homeless shelters to name just two groups ...

From fixed election dates to the number of candidates that run in an election,  what Newfoundlanders and Labradorians believe about one of ...

Until 1996,  there were no campaign finance laws in Newfoundland and Labrador at all. In 2003,  the Conservatives promised to make dramati...

As with a lot of things in local politics,  the most interesting thing wasn't the fact that Steve Marshall barred Roger Grimes from a ho...

Depending on which interview you listened to on Tuesday,  Tom Marshall would be hanging around as Premier until the end of the summer. At ...

“It is easy to be an armchair critic, tweeted natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy before Christmas, “but It takes real courage to stan...

If you have a few minutes to spare, flip through the provincial government’s 2012 budget . Look for the work “donation”. You won’t find ...

One of the hallmarks of the Conservative political method since 2003 has been the suppression of public dissent. Anyone who wants to raise...

From a second rebuttal to justice minister Felix Collins, right (not exactly as illustrated) from the Center for Law and Democracy : I...

There’s something about this frivolous and vexatious thing that caught people’s attention right from the start. Under the provincial Conse...

“Oil and democracy do not easily mix,” wrote political scientist Michael Ross in The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development ...

Democracy is a beautiful thing.  The people of Newfoundland and Labrador are witnessing its full beauty in the filibuster against the Cons...

The always sharp labradore has posted links to a report by the Foundation for Democratic Advancement on election finance laws across Canada...

“A democracy only works really well,” according to Kathy Dunderdale , “when people are asking questions.” Opposition Leader Dwight Ball to...