The Sir Robert Bond Papers

Herb Kitchen died last week. He was the minister of finance in the early 1990s who brought down the difficult budgets, starting in 1991 t...

Most of the commentary about Budget 2019 on Tuesday will be focused on the short-term. Here are some slides that show longer-term trending....

Budget 2015 offered absolutely no surprises. On major areas the Conservatives continued their policy of spending more than the provincial ...

A post last week offered a quick confirmation that, as finance minister Ross Wiseman said,  provincial government spending accounts for abo...

The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) released its annual summary of health care spending health care last week. This is a p...

If you want to understand what the provincial government’s audited financial statements really mean, you will have to skip Tom Marshall’s c...

The Conservatives used to say that Newfoundland and Labrador was eastern North America’s energy warehouse.  Once Danny Williams ran for the ...

There is always something interesting in the province’s audited financial statements and – sadly – it is often at odds with what the politic...

The SIDI simulation of government spending that we’ve run this past week might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but these sort of thought exerc...

You don’t need drugs or alcohol to get the feeling of dizziness or stupor like you smacked your head with a hammer. Hard. Repeatedly. Just...

The number is a hard one to wrap your mind around. $15.6 billion. That’s the amount of oil royalties and mining royalties the provincial...

The Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Labour hired the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives to issue a report on the upcoming prov...

Is the government facing a structural or cyclical deficit? Good question.  Their economist says it is a structural problem but his comment...

The provincial cabinet has been burning the midnight oil the past couple of nights.  Literally.  Late night sessions that ended God-know...

[ Stick to your Lane Update:  See bottom] No surprise that on the day after natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy talked about looming...

Just to put the provincial government budget in perspective, here are the top five sources of cash that come into the treasury from what a...

Supporters of the current governing party like to talk about how theirs is the most open, accountable and transparent government of all time...

One of the more curious comments from provincial Conservative supporters lately has been the claim that they support the current Connie admi...

The 2012 provincial budget includes $1.4 billion in capital works but none of it is apparently connected to two hospitals.. How long shou...

The provincial government announced on Wednesday that they will spend $2.0 million to fund new child care spaces across the province. ...