The Sir Robert Bond Papers

"First and foremost, be totally honest with the electorate,”  former Premier Clyde Wells told Anthony Germain on CBC’s  Sunday Edition ...

During the filibuster in the last session of the House of Assembly, education minister Dale Kirby reminded everyone of why the current admin...

In the face of thousands of well-informed people telling Dwight Ball that the provincial government must change direction to survive, in the...

Finance minister Cathy Bennett told CBC that "everything is on the table and we have to make sure that we don't leave anything tha...

CBC and the Telegram   carried a story on Tuesday that the province would be hit by a “mild recession” next year. There’s not much real new...

Labrador economy must diversify to survive, say opposition parties. There is a CBC headline to conjure with. Pure political magic for t...

In September 2008 ,  four cabinet ministers went to Harbour Grace to announce that the provincial government was giving the company $8.0 mil...

Premier Peek-a-Boo took time out of his long, slow wander to the Premier’s Office this week to do an interview with the Grand Falls-Windsor ...

The Conference Board of Canada released a report last week that assessed economic performance in each of the provinces in Canada. “The res...

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...

If you want to understand the provincial government’s mining policy, look no further than Joe Smallwood and a speech he gave to the local c...

CBC’s Rob Antle has updated work done over the past couple of years on government give-aways to private sector businesses in the name of ec...

From the Globe and Mail : “If commodity prices were to fall back – apart from Canada, of course – it would be a pretty good thing for m...

In her first speech to the House of Assembly as Premier – which she and her staff erroneously and arrogantly like to call her inaugural spee...

The government’s favourite economist is sounding alarm bells about the provincial government’s financial health.  The finance minister, on ...

Wade Locke’s been making the rounds of local media in advance of his talk tonight at the Harris Centre of Memorial University.  Your humble ...

Almost two years after your humble e-scribbler pointed out the blatant stupidity of the provincial government’s decision to boycott free tr...

Finance minister Tom Marshall thinks its time for the private sector to step in and boost the economy around Corner Brook. “Other than ...

Far from being hard done-by when it comes to federal jobs in the province, Newfoundland and Labrador is pretty much on par, according to a r...

The 2008 report on schools from the provincial education department is a wealth of useful information on one of the most important governme...