The Sir Robert Bond Papers

“What do I have to do to get you to listen?” health minister John Haggie asked rhetorically and with considerable exasperation at Monday’s...

esquire.com last October.  Big headline: Donald Trump Woos Republicans By Speaking at a 4th Grade Level Smaller head: His competito...

Dwight Ball demonstrated last week how very simple things can turn into problems very quickly. He handed his political opponents a stick the...

Cuts. Layoffs. A couple of tight years. Hard times. Premier Kathy Dunderdale, finance minister Tom Marshall, and natural resources m...

A couple of the exceedingly small changes in the recent cabinet shuffle came out of the Bill 29 fiasco.  Felix Collins went from the relativ...

Some of you may have noticed a couple of words turning up in any discussion of Muskrat Falls. One is “confused”. The other is “tired” as...

Thanks to the Telegram’s James McLeod and his Twitter feed from Gander, take a look at two of the resolutions from the Progressive Conservat...

The song from MASH was wrong. Suicide is not painless. And political suicide is more painful to watch than any other kind.

Former natural resources minister Shawn Skinner thinks that the Progressive Conservatives can turn around their current abysmal polling numb...

One of the reasons why the provincial Conservatives are in political trouble is that their communications are frigged up. For those who ar...

One of the rationales the provincial government has used to justify Muskrat Falls is the idea that the island will have electricity shortage...

As these things go, George Murphy’s two days of news about compliance with the province’s ban on pesticides was a tidy and effective bit of ...

Last week ended with a wonderful bit of insight into where televised political debates figure into an election campaign. Before you go any...

So now you’ve either seen the debate or read some of the media coverage about it. Here’s a question for you: what was the ballot ques...

Pretty simple idea, really. Opinions, beliefs and ideas move around among like minded people in what is an essentially closed space.  Th...

Heard that before, right? And it’s true. Just because it is true - and most adults know it is true – doesn’t mean that all of them still...

The only funnier thing than a guy up on assault charges claiming he is a wannabe Tory candidate are opposition party politicos who campaign ...

Telegram editor Russell Wangersky maps out the new normal in federal and provincial politics in a devastating column titled “ Lies, the new...

From Susan Delacourt at The Toronto Star comes a column taking issue with two of her colleagues at other publications who have taken, it s...

A month or so ago, some of you may have read the post called “How to win without news media” and the story of Texas governor Rick Perry and ...