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17 December 2008
Brute force of law: Williams administration revokes Abitibi rights and expropriates assets
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In a move Premier Danny Williams described as unprecedented, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador introduced legislation in the Hous...
15 December 2008
"Solidarity, Reg", patronage appointment version
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Somehow this slipped your humble e-scribbler's notice. Provincial New Democratic Party leader Lorraine Michael knew back in September ...
Fowler missing in Niger
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He was deputy minister at National Defence through the Somalia debacle . Now he's gone missing in Niger while on a diplomatic mission....
Floundering
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Question: In what year did Earle McCurdy and the fisheries union not go to the provincial government looking for cash to bail out the fi...
14 December 2008
Local math prof stirs international economics controversy
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Odds are no one heard of Antal Fekete. The Hungarian-born emeritus professor of mathematics at Memorial University in St. John's isn...
Separated at birth: the tag line version
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" Never give up. Never give in." " Never give up. Never surrender ." -srbp-
13 December 2008
Forget TORSTAR: Latest Harper/Ignatieff poll results
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Plus other stuff of equal importance, because politics is such serious business . -srbp-
Purple Reign of Darkness
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Danny Williams receives personal files on reporters who interview him. He confirmed that fact, telling reporters the files are to help him...
11 December 2008
Fun with anagrams
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Anagrams. Take a word or words and mix up the letters to make new words or phrases. Like, say, NALCOR ENERGY, the provincial government&...
NALCO Reborn
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If nothing else, the current provincial administration is good at naming - branding - things. Well that is, if by "good" you m...
Facing oblivion
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From the guy the insiders picked to run the Liberal Party: I’m not looking for a road to 24 Sussex. I'm looking for a road that ta...
10 December 2008
True or false
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One of these statements is true. The other is not. The only question is which one is which. Natural resources minister Kathy Dunderdal...
And a week later everywhere else...
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IOCC ices expansion plans. December 2 at Bond Papers , thanks to Kathy Dunderdale's loose lips in the House. December 10 everywhere...
The economics of Snuffleupagus
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Funny thing how people miss stuff. Like a Bank of Montreal economist who offered this view of the provincial financial state: "...
09 December 2008
An accountability problem for Jerome
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Aside from being one of the most arrogant and condescending finance ministers in a long time, Jerome Kennedy might need to brush up on his m...
The Last King of Chicago
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From the Canadian Press : “You know what I like the most is Barack Obama is listening to what we're doing here,” Mr. Williams said ...
Poll goosing harder than ever
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The provincial government's pollster released the results of its most recent work on Tuesday. The graph with the orange line shows the...
The provincial budget update: six points
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1. The long and short of it : Some revenues are higher than projected. Spending remains the same. The update runs six pages. Four of...
08 December 2008
Locking the barn door: prisons report version
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The provincial justice minister released a report on Monday into the provincial prison system. The hard copies handed out to reporters ha...
Michael Ignatieff: the "Whips and chains and cuffs, oh my!" version
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Heard from the kinky corner recently: "While I support torture on a personal level, I am not sure it makes good national policy.&q...
The powers that be
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1. Congratulations on your new budget, Mr. Harper. Michael Ignatieff never supported the coalition. Period. He never did. He never...
06 December 2008
Brent breaks 40
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Brent crude - the benchmark for Newfoundland and Labrador crude - settled at US$39.74 on Friday for the first time in four years. West Te...
05 December 2008
Norsk Hydro ponders production cut
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Norwegian aluminium giant Norsk Hydro is considering a cut in its existing production in light of a dramatic global drop in demand for alum...
Wanna try that poll again?
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Okay, leave aside for a second the fact the CBC headline on EKOS' robopoll is grossly misleading. Would the poll results be the same ...
"There are no cheap seats in the House of Commons"
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As it turns out Jack Harris was on his feet when the proclamation proroguing parliament arrived in the House of Commons. He holds the dist...
04 December 2008
AbitibiBowater hydro assets
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Undoubtedly, there will be plenty of hype and posturing about the hydro-electric assets in which AbitibiBowater has an interest. There...
Try the captain next time
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Maybe Janice Wells should have tried a bit of Captain Morgan or Lamb's next time she wants to write a book on a subject other than garde...
Business as usual
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1. AbitibiBowater to shut GFW mill. 2. Vale Inco to close Voisey's Bay for one month in 2009. Yep. No one saw this coming at ...
Cluck, cluck moo: Byward version
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Among the funniest comments coming from Ottawa these days was an e-mail reporting the streets around Parliament Hill are blocked with chicke...
Vale cuts staff, production globally
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1. Globe and Mail reports Vale Inco will be cutting output at Sudbury. 2. Globally, the situation is significant: Dec. 3 (Bloomber...
03 December 2008
Hearn on BQ: "There are some really fine people in the Bloc."
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The Bond Papers Wayback Machine is a useful thing. Well, useful for people like your humble e-scribbler. Not so useful for the people -...
Humber Valley Resort to go bankrupt
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The company is blaming the provincial government . They should be blaming someone else: Brian Dobbin . When Dobbin took his leave, the ...
Another Conservative Homer moment
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A minority party backed by the Bloc Quebecois. Which one? The " Stephen Harper Conservative Government ". D'oh! -srbp-
They need a time out
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There is a growing consensus that the current political crisis in Ottawa came from the Conservative Party's heavy-handed approach to go...
How rigged was my rally? Stand up for Canada version
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The federal Conservatives must be really running scared at the prospect of a coalition ousting them before Christmas. You can tell because...
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