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Showing posts with label paternalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paternalism. Show all posts
13 March 2014

All hail the Glorious Leader Trope #nlpoli

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“ Province to deliver on promise of whistleblower law ”  read the headline for the CBC’s online story about the provincial government throne...
05 November 2012

Kathy Dunderdale, give-aways, and the resource curse #nlpoli

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Ontario has been interested in Gull Island since at least the 1990s.  We didn’t need Kathy Dunderdale to say that again as part of the adve...
15 June 2012

When rights are annoying #nlpoli

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There’s something about this frivolous and vexatious thing that caught people’s attention right from the start. Under the provincial Conse...
21 March 2012

Bennett’s telephone call “gendered violence” according to PACSW prez #nlpoli

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Most of you likely missed it, but a sharp exchange in Twitter on Monday showed the way politics in this province rolls these days. Dara Sq...
29 February 2012

And this surprises you because…? #nlpoli

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Politics in Newfoundland and Labrador is about what the social scientists – like political scientists, for example -  would call clientelism...
17 August 2011

A cause for grave concern #nlpoli

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The Office of the Auditor General is an independent and reliable source of the objective, fact-based information that the House of Assembly ...
09 August 2011

Worshipping at the Trough

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Patronage politics of the worst old-fashioned sort is alive and well in Newfoundland and Labrador. VOCM posted a story online within the...
07 February 2011

A rose by any other name would still stink to high heavens

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Pity Clayton Forsey. He’s the Conservative member of the provincial legislature from the district of Exploits. Like many of his colleagues...
14 January 2011

Paternalism on display

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Members of Danny Williams’ personality cult tend to infantilise themselves and those around them. It’s an expression of paternalism, one of ...
12 January 2011

The persistence of patronage politics

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Former auditor general Elizabeth Marshall made the news this past week in her new capacity as a Conservative senator from Newfoundland and ...
05 January 2011

Connie Leadership 2011: democratic deficit

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The latest twists in the Conservative leadership story are starting to look a bit more like a soap opera than usual even in a place where th...
02 January 2011

Pater knows best

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Telegram editor Russell Wangersky has some suggestions for the provincial Conservatives now that Danny is gone: “Reform the province’s...
30 December 2010

Kathy Dunderdale: The New Paternalism

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Dunderdale has sought to continue key points of the Williams government, including development of the Lower Churchill megaproject, but sh...
22 March 2010

Personality Cult

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Take a gander at a Canadian Press story about the personality cult surrounding the Premier and you’ll notice some rather curious things. ...