The Sir Robert Bond Papers

Conversation about the province's financial state in the past couple of weeks have turned to talk of bailouts and threats to the provinc...

Health minister John Haggie  said that the health deal signed with Ottawa on Tibb's Eve was the best deal that could be got. Haggie...

Equalization is a really simple idea. In order to ensure that Canadians across the country have access to comparable services regardless o...

Premier Dwight Ball said everything is on the table to deal with the massive financial problem facing his administration. And then, in a s...

Paul Davis and his cabinet were all smiles and chuckles last week at the election of a new administration in Ottawa. Optimistic for the fu...

November 2005. The Harris Centre at Memorial University issued a report on the number of federal public servants working in Newfoundland a...

The Liberals kept poking at Premier Paul Davis in the House of Assembly on Wednesday about the European free trade deal announced last year ...

When Premier Kathy Dunderdale spoke to a St. John’s Board of Trade last May ,  she claimed the federal government had tried to tie the feder...

Two news stories last week reminded us once again of the nature of federal-provincial relations for Newfoundland and Labrador over the past ...

All the talk the past week or so about negotiations between the crowd in Confederation Building and the crowd in Ottawa  brought out the con...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with Alberta Premier Alison Redford when the Pm dropped in for the Calgary Stampede. As the Globe repor...

Premier Kathy Dunderdale should appoint municipal affairs minister Kevin “Fairity” O’Brien to handle intergovernmental affairs. While Dund...

Premier Kathy Dunderdale is frustrated. “ Extremely frustrated ” “What is it that we have to do down here to get your attention?” she as...

Four years from now, Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation and Hydro-Quebec will automatically renew the 1969 power contract for another 2...

Let’s make no bones about it.  Even at the deepest darkest moments after the death of Meech Lake, federal-provincial relations were never ...

If exploration turns up a significant amount of oil and gas in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, expect a ton of political weight to shift toward th...

The federal government will commit $130 million to help build an electricity line in northern British Columbia.  Total estimated cost of th...

The Telegram editorial this wintry Wednesday in April tackles the ever-stimulating issue of federal-provincial fiscal relations. That’s f...

Federal finance leprechaun Jim Flaherty has been signaling the need to cap the Equalization system this year. "It's a federal...