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Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
11 July 2017

Heretics and Believers

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Peter Marshall's  Heretics and believers:  a history of the English Reformation from Yale University Press (2017) arrived as a belate...
03 January 2017

On Meaning #nlpoli

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Brexit supporter and insurance magnate Arron Banks got into a tussle on Twitter late last year with Cambridge classicist Mary Beard. Banks t...
10 November 2016

Why national history matters - Jerry Bannister #nlpoli

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"Nations matter. National cultures matter. And national histories matter,"  historian Jerry Bannister writes in his commentary o...
09 September 2015

Finding the voice of the next generation #nlpoli

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“My Government will harness the desire among Newfoundlanders and Labradorians to cultivate greater cultural, financial and moral autonomy vi...
13 August 2014

Perks #nlpoli

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A story in last weekend’s Telegram documented all the perks that former Premiers get. Aside from a severance package, a couple of extra m...
02 January 2013

Some books for the New Year #nlpoli

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Shannon Ryan’s A history of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic to 1818 is an engaging, accessible account of the English in Newfoundland fr...
04 December 2012

The Prisoners of Their Own Delusions #nlpoli

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  Another part of the Premier’s Office assault on reality Monday was a puff piece by Paul McLeod in the Chronicle Herald on Kathy Dunderd...
08 May 2012

The politics of logic and history #nlpoli

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“Government does not work on logic,” a wise man once told your humble e-scribbler.  “It works on the basis of history.” When faced with a ...
22 February 2012

The Others, a.k.a the Ghost and Mrs. Dunderdale #nlpoli

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Regardless of any change in the cost of other forms of energy,… we will have stability in this province that few parts of the world could...
21 February 2012

Reminder: Jerry Bannister on political myths in NL #nlpoli

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With the provincial government and its proponents deploying Churchill falls and bay d’Espoir as part of their arsenal of argument in favour ...
27 December 2010

The politics of history - editorial version

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The history of politics in Newfoundland and Labrador is very much the history of patronage. The practice is accurately described in this W...
03 December 2010

The politics of history (reprint)

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This post first appeared as a column in the old Sunday Independent in 2004 Your humble e-scribbler posted at Bond Papers in July 2005 al...
02 September 2010

Digging (up) the past

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Geologists exploring western Newfoundland have discovered a fossil belonging to an amphibian that live about 325 millions years ago. ( cbcnl...
21 September 2009

The truth is out there…

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It just ain’t coming from this Mulder. labradore notes a curious commentary on Sean Cadigan’s recent history of Newfoundland and Labrador...
03 August 2009

Historically challenged

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Having the provincial government eliminate interest charges on provincial student loans is considered an ”unprecedented” initiative by…umm…...
31 October 2008

"par l'argent et par la vote ethnique" - 13 years later

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Geez, it's funny how quickly some things slip by. October 30 marked the 13th anniversary of the 1995 Quebec referendum. What peopl...