The Sir Robert Bond Papers

The annual budget consultation farce started on Monday with a couple of sessions. This year the provincial government has turned out a bud...

CBC’s On Point   this weekend delivered up some all-too-familiar conversation on the budget and a political panel talking about Judy Manni...

On the outside, the spring budget for 2014 looks like a delicious assortment of goodies for everyone.  You can tell it is delectable because...

Finance minister Charlene Johnson will read the new provincial budget speech on Thursday. In keeping with the provincial Conservative trad...

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

When any country or province depends heavily on the money that comes from resource extraction, it affects politics there. Political scient...

As part of the orchestrated campaign to attack the people making the comments instead of the comments themselves , finance minister Tom Mars...

Simply put, Tom Marshall’s most recent news release about the report by Dominion Bond Rating Service doesn’t match what the bond rating age...

The provincial government set its budget this year based on an oil price forecast of US$124 a barrel in 2012. As we move up on the midway ...

Via labradore , a chart that plots Conservative unsustainable public spending since 2003 with recently announced controls on discretionary s...

In a column in the weekend Ottawa Citizen , Brian Lee Crowley of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute made a convincing argument for investing p...

In the wake of the latest revelations of financial mismanagement in the provincial government, SRBP has been looking at some of the possib...

Mr. Speaker, if the members opposite think that the level of scrutiny that we do over a $3 billion expenditure in health care is to take ...

If the provincial government can actually get control on its spending and head down the road to management reform along the lines that Easte...

The CBC’s John Gushue has a tidy analysis of Premier Kathy Dunderdale’s recent suggestion that government employees could work from home in...

The provincial Conservatives promised on Tuesday that they had a 10 year plan to reduce the provincial debt. They have been in office sinc...

As you try and contain your excitement on provincial budget day, here are a few numbers you might want to keep in mind: Dozens:   What CBC...

Job cuts in the public service.  One of the more spectacular communications frig ups by the Premier lately. Here’s what your humble e-scr...

Premier Kathy Dunderdale is singing the usual Tory song before contract negotiations and a provincial budget.  Yes, folks, in a speech to ...

It’s not hard to find the toad of truth in the swamp otherwise known as the ruling Conservatives’ record on public spending since they took ...