The Sir Robert Bond Papers

A couple of weeks ago, finance minister Ross Wiseman said that he can’t cut government spending because it is such an important part of the ...

The province’s real gross domestic product has grown at one third the average annual rate of the period from 1997 to 2003, according to fig...

Figures released on Friday by Statistics Canada show that Newfoundland and Labrador posted the largest drop in labour productivity in the c...

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...

From Statistics Canada , the latest numbers of investment in non-residential building construction: Total construction is up 22.6% from ...

Supposedly, there’s a baby boom in the province : After years in decline, Newfoundland and Labrador’s birth rate has been steadily incr...

The hyperactive St. John’s housing market will be slipping back toward demographic requirements in the second half of 2010, according to the...

Introduced in 1995, the Economic Diversification and Growth Enterprises program – known as EDGE – is the most successful economic developmen...

Last week, labradore comments on the size of the provincial labour force occupied by the provincial government public sector.  He capped it...

last week’s release of the latest labour force numbers from Statistics Canada prompted your humble e-scribbler to go back and try a comparis...

When you project an average price of oil at US$83 and forecast a billion dollar budget shortfall on that basis, having oil at US$71-ish mus...

Just for the fun of it all, here’s a table showing the Newfoundland and Labrador labour force (top line and the employment, by month, from M...