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Showing posts with label patronage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label patronage. Show all posts
06 January 2020

Patronage and pork #nlpoli

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Think of it as classic political news in Newfoundland and Labrador. VOCM headline : “Premier commits to fixing patronage issues in gov...
07 November 2016

Appearance #nlpoli

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What you know of the world outside your immediate physical sensation - what you can touch, taste, feel and so on - is a mental construction....
27 July 2016

Good-bye John #nlpoli

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In their last year in office, the provincial Conservatives went on a patronage bend on top of the patronage bender they started in 2003.  Th...
12 January 2016

Pressure #nlpoli

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A curious thing happens in societies where a huge amount of the collective income derives from outside the local economy and the local tax b...
28 August 2015

Chainsaw Earle keeps austerity on the table #nlpoli

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NDP leader Earle McCurdy called the province’s major open line show on Thursday and by the sounds of things he hasn’t backed off the positio...
29 July 2015

As Karl’s mom would say… #nlpoli

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The Conservatives came to power in 2003 promising to do things a new way. People thought that meant the Tories would do away with the prac...
14 February 2014

Premier Tom and Uncle Joe #nlpoli

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The provincial government announced on Thursday that it had directed the provincial energy corporation to build a new transmission line bet...
09 October 2013

Self-reliance versus Dependence #nlpoli

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In both Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador, the local media will report when a town gets a new fire truck. The difference ...
25 September 2013

The Beast #nlpoli

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This week, people across Canada who are interested in the public right to access government information mark a thing called Right to Know We...
23 May 2013

Beth and Expenses #nlpoli #cdnpoli

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All this talk of Senator Beth Marshall and her hefty annual stipend for chairing a committee that has met once in two years brings to mind ...
22 January 2013

Verbiage Growth Strategy #nlpoli

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Right on cue in the controversy over the population growth “strategy ”,  a provincial cabinet minister issued a news release late on Monday...
10 January 2013

High-Value Delivery #nlpoli

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Two cabinet ministers trekked up the Southern Shore on Wednesday to hand over a cheque for some government cash to a local group of seniors....
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...
08 June 2012

No experience preferred: energy corp pork edition #nlpoli

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The provincial government announced the latest round of Pure Pork (TM)   patronage appointments  on Friday.  They've stuck four people...
06 April 2012

Patronage and seals… #nlpoli

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Thursday’s announcement by fisheries minister Darin King should give you a pretty big reminder that the local political scene remains mired ...
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...
02 November 2011

The value of nothing or Pater knows best, redux #nlpoli

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Talk show host Randy Simms has a fine column in the most recent Saturday edition of the Telegram . Our House of Assembly needs fixing, wr...
25 October 2011

Tory snouts back in trough #nlpoli

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In a characteristically display of arrogance and entitlement, Kathy Dunderdale today reappointed two of her key political hacks – Len Simms...