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Showing posts with label political pork. Show all posts
Showing posts with label political pork. 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...
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...
15 December 2011

A bad week for Penashue #nlpoli #cdnpoli

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Poor Peter Penashue. First, the federal Conservative intergovernmental affairs minister gets hammered for stupidly appointing his campaign...
14 September 2011

The Arrogance Factor #nlpoli

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Can Len Simms be far behind your humble e-scribbler asked back in June when deputy minister Ross Reid quit his job to run the Tory campaign...
24 July 2011

The Politics of Public Spending

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Check the local media for the past week and you’ll see a sudden bunch of stories about the series of fire truck announcements provincial pol...
28 June 2011

A room with a view of the pork barrel

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The provincial ambassador’s office in Ottawa costs the better part of a half million a year to run, hasn’t had an ambassador in it for the b...
27 December 2010

The politics of history - editorial version

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The history of politics in Newfoundland and Labrador is very much the history of patronage. The practice is accurately described in this W...
10 August 2010

A summer like no other: the labradore analysis

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Take a gander at this analysis at labradore of the stunning blizzard of funding announcements from a single ministry in the Williams admin...
08 August 2010

Connies, pork and electoral ridings

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On the federal level, the Globe and Mail reports that the federal Conservatives directed federal spending cash from the stimulus program he...
12 May 2010

Nothing could be further from the truth: political pavement pork punishment version

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As labradore documents yet again, the Premier can deny all he wants that things like paving is apportioned on a partisan basis, with the mos...
10 May 2010

It’s always about the money

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Former cabinet minister Trevor Taylor, whose surprise resignation last fall triggered a wave of set-backs and problems for the ruling Conser...
31 December 2009

New Year’s Contest: name the new NL senator

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So parliament will start anew in the New Year and all the empty seats in the senate will have new bums to fill them. Who do you think will...
21 October 2009

Job Vacancy – no experience required

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Joan Cook retired from the senate on October 6.  The Chretien-era appointee hit the magic age to retire from what used to be known as the ...
13 April 2009

Provincial Tory pork star praises federal Connie cash

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Local Tory stalwart Len Simms didn’t get the memo. The former Provincial Conservative heavyweight, now holding down the heavyweight pork-...
12 September 2008

Another poll shows the NL starting numbers

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Corporate Research Associates released results today of questions posed to a sample of voters in Newfoundland and Labrador in August and th...
19 December 2007

Speaking of snouts in troughs...

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If the provincial government is so concerned at the high price of ferry tickets to and from Newfoundland (caused by high oil prices), perha...

The politics of pork

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Surely someone has noticed two things about the weather and the weather offices lately. 1. As this story notes , people are not happy in ...
20 July 2007

De Trenton a Bagotville?

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During the last federal election future defence minister Gordo promised battalions for everyone. In Bagotville Quebec on Friday, he delive...