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Showing posts with label political culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label political culture. Show all posts
02 November 2020

The hard truth of reconciliation #nlpoli

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Nick Youngson   CC BY-SA 3.0   Alpha Stock Images Reconciliation is a very popular word these days. It comes out of the   commission appo...
27 October 2020

The importance of what we talk about #nlpoli

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Nalcor will have to replace about 350 fibreglass beams used in the Labrador-Island Link because of a fault in their manufacture. Nalcor di...
09 June 2020

Mimicry and Pantomime #nlpoli

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A couple of thousand people turned out in St. John’s on Saturday for a rally organized by a new group calling itself Black Lives Matter NL ....
20 May 2020

The Authoritarian Impulse #nlpoli

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Special Measures Enforcement Jim Dinn used to be a teacher. As head of the provincial teachers’ union , he spearheaded a drive again...
03 February 2020

Sliding by #nlpoli

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Sliding b'ys. During the recent emergency in eastern Newfoundland and Labrador, both the provincial government and the City of St....
20 November 2017

When a change is not a change: the NDP and Muskrat Falls #nlpoli #cdnpoli

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One newsroom. Two different interpretations of  federal NDP leader Jagmeet Sing's position on Muskrat Falls. In Sarah Smellie's...
10 January 2017

Behaviour Patterns #nlpoli

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January 2016. Dwight Ball tells reporters in year-end interviews that "everything is on the table" to deal with the government&#...
15 November 2016

The Trump Election #nlpoli

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All you will ever need in order to understand the recent American presidential election is contained in this little chart.  It appeared wit...
07 December 2015

Townies and Baymen (again) #nlpoli

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Last week’s post on the political narrative war currently under way was a combination of two separate, but related ideas. The incoming Li...
30 March 2015

More like a snapshot than a panorama #nlpoli

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Last week, a group called Samara released the results of its research on Canadians and politics.  Democracy 360 t hey called it. The media...
19 January 2015

Not fit for it #nlpoli

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It’s not surprising that the provincial Conservatives and their supporters want to reduce the representations the people of the province hav...
28 January 2013

The New Sexism #nlpoli #cdnpoli

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As the story goes, the crowd currently running this place were all set to issue a news release that the first woman premier in the province’...
26 September 2011

Welcome to the Echo Chamber #nlpoli #nlvotes

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Pretty simple idea, really. Opinions, beliefs and ideas move around among like minded people in what is an essentially closed space.  Th...
10 May 2011

For the world is hollow…

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Okay so a bunch of people are spilling ink or pixels or whatever over a bunch of new members of parliament elected in Quebec as if they were...
12 March 2011

Good Tory? End of story

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Telegram editor Russell Wangersky maps out the new normal in federal and provincial politics in a devastating column titled “ Lies, the new...
19 February 2011

Never heard that before

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Memorial University’s political science department is undergoing a reinvigoration of the kind not seen in the department in nearly 40 years....