The Sir Robert Bond Papers

The House of Assembly passed a bill during the last sitting that would allow the government to publish a list every year of all the people w...

Via VOCM ,  the reaction of NAPE boss Jerry Earle to a study that showed the provincial government is overloaded with provincial public serv...

You can go back to September 2006 and find one of the earliest references at SRBP to the impact the aging, shifting population would have on...

For a while, it looked like one of the island's major communities wouldn't be able to put a senior hockey team on the ice for the ne...

Whatever the provincial government is doing about its own spending or the provincial economy generally or whatever it is up to starts at 9:0...

Some people got really excited on Wednesday by a report from the Fraser Institute that claimed this province had seen its first population ...

A year after Kathy Dunderdale left office, the Fraser Institute said she was one of the best fiscal managers of all the Premiers in Canada....

There are times when you wonder why anyone pays attention to a crowd like the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council. They showed up in St. J...

The C.D. Howe Institute released a policy brief on Thursday that argues that demographic changes will hit the people of Newfoundland and L...

Hebron is the last of the four, big, offshore discoveries from the 1980s. It’s due to come into production in 2017 based on a development ...

This year it is Charlene Johnson’s turn to host a series of meetings across the province that the provincial Conservatives cynically tout a...

“Bullshit,” wrote philosopher Harry Frankfurt a few years ago, “is unavoidable whenever circumstances require someone to talk without knowi...

It seems like Danny Williams can’t go two weeks without getting his mug on the news so it wasn’t surprising that on Monday the Old Man calle...

Ask people in the St. John’s business community about the economy and they are likely to have trouble holding back the grin long enough to g...

If you look at nothing else this week, take a look at a comment by  Matthew Kerby called “ ’Representative’ by population in Newfoundland an...

Ross Reid has a new job.  He used to be federal fisheries minister.  Since 2003 or so, Ross has been a deputy minister in the provincial...

Flip over to the Occupy NL blog and you’ll see a critique of some recent SRBP posts on the provincial government’s bonus cash for live babi...

Via Occupy Newfoundland and Labrador ,  a different take on the success of the bootie call from the one presented in this corner recently. ...

As the last instalment in our survey of birth rates, let’s take a look at the group 15 to 19 and the other end of the scale for statistics, ...

[ Note: This is a revised version of the original post.  The earlier one  was based on the wrong tables] The 2007 provincial government b...