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Showing posts with label paul davis. Show all posts
27 February 2017

Davis' paranoia #nlpoli

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Perhaps one of the most disconcerting aspects of former Premier Paul Davis' testimony at the Barry Inquiry last week is the clear eviden...
12 October 2016

Eeyore and the Blustery Day #nlpoli

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Premier Dwight Ball stood up before a hand-picked crowd at The Rooms on Tuesday and told them they were there to help develop a strategy for...
20 September 2016

Grits and Cons play dodge-fact over Labrador hydro talks #nlpoli

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"There are no discussions between this government and the  Quebec government." That's part of a statement sent out by email...
08 February 2016

Using his words #nlpoli

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Politicians are usually very careful about the words they use. That’s why it’s important to notice the words Premier Dwight Ball used this...
07 November 2015

Downfall #nlpoli

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On Day Two of the official provincial general election campaign, a new poll by a different polling method lines up with the Abacus Data pol...
06 November 2015

Setting fire to your own ass is never a good idea #nlpoli

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While Paul Davis and the Conservatives were launching their official election campaign,  Ryan Cleary turned up in a recorded interview on NT...
02 November 2015

Blue balls #nlpoli

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Ryan Cleary didn’t become the punchline to any New Yorker cartoon at 3 :00 PM last Friday afternoon . Peg Norman and other local New Demo...
28 October 2015

Real change #nlpoli

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“A positive, optimistic, hopeful vision of public life isn’t a naive dream,”  Justin Trudeau told Canadians after he won a truly historic vi...
03 September 2015

Leadership and opportunity #nlpoli

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On Tuesday, the provincial Conservatives launched their election campaign. It was to be built solely on the image of Paul Davis as a great...
02 September 2015

Omega Man #nlpoli

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The word that comes to mind when you look at the new provincial Conservative party website or the davis165.ca site isn’t fresh, new, reboun...
15 July 2015

That’s gotta suck, big time #nlpoli

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All the country’s provincial and territorial leaders – except for Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia – are in Newfoundland and Labrador this week ...
09 June 2015

A lot can change in three months #nlpoli

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The Liberals and the Conservatives dropped in the most recent Corporate Research Associates poll and all that vote went to the New Democrat...
08 June 2015

Small ball, election dates, and other minutae #nlpoli

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Later today, Premier Paul Davis will introduce a bill in the House of Assembly that, among other things,  sets the next provincial general e...
02 June 2015

Politics, CETA, and the fishery #nlpoli

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The European trade deal came up in the House of Assembly on Monday. Everyone kept to the same lines they've been kicking around for m...
21 May 2015

TBT: a cabinet divided #nlpoli

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The latest case of the Premier and one of his ministers saying different things can’t be put down to brain farts. You also cannot dismiss ...
14 May 2015

And it’s only Wednesday #nlpoli

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Imagine, if you can, what it must be like to be Sandy Collins.  Sandy is a very young man who is -  right now -  living the first line of hi...
24 April 2015

You know things are going badly when… #nlpoli

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… you launch your election campaign at at huge fundraiser and your signature policy announcement gets slaughtered on Twitter within seconds ...
16 March 2015

Felix the Half A-G #nlpoli

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If politicians are good at one thing, they are usually good at telling a story that serves their purpose even if it isn’t, strictly sp...
13 March 2015

Constable Contempt #nlpoli

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Paul Davis fired Judy Manning from cabinet on Wednesday. He didn’t meet with her in person. Davis called her on the phone. Short of se...
28 January 2015

Acting Like a Leader #nlpoli

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In his first major public appearance since cutting public representation in the House of Assembly last week,  Premier Paul Davis flatly reje...