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Churchill Falls and Muskrat Falls - Background
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27 January 2009
De-spinning the New Family Feud newser
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Q: When did Premier Danny Williams announce that Newfoundland and Labrador was a have province and - by definition – wouldn’t be receiving...
War gilt
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What better way to invest your cash than buying up bonds that helped finance the British during the Great War but which still pay dividends...
26 January 2009
Freedom from Information: Memorial University joins the government secrecy cult
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Two years later after first receiving an access to information request, Memorial University and its lawyers are still mounting arguments to ...
AG quietly starts offshore board audit
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Officials of the province’s auditor general have started their audit of the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board, the s...
How Icelandic are we: Coalition government collapses in face of crisis
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The Icelandic coalition government unravelled on Monday after the latest in a series of public demonstrations prompted the country’s com...
25 January 2009
10 years to turn around: Newfoundland and Labrador oil royalties
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Oil started flowing from the Newfoundland and Labrador offshore a little over a decade ago but in that short time, provincial oil royalties ...
24 January 2009
Freedom from Information: myth used as excuse by information commissioner
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When the province’s information commissioner backed the Executive Council’s refusal to release information last week, his decision was based...
No word on Long Harbour smelter
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Vale Inco had until Thursday to submit its plans for the smelter at Long Harbour. No word from the provincial natural resources departmen...
The joy of giving
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The new chair of the board of governors at College of the North Atlantic – headquarters in Stephenville – just happens to be the top contrib...
23 January 2009
Pull the other one, Jerome
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About half through finance minister Jerome Kennedy’s scrum on Friday something very interesting happened. Jerome scratched his nose. I...
Don’t blame me, redux
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Your humble e-scribbler cannot be blamed for voting into office the obviously incompetent twillicks who will drop this country into such ma...
22 January 2009
Shovel-ready indeed
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If ever there was a shovel-ready project crying out for federal infrastructure spending in the midst of this global economic meltdown, it wo...
Lacking Ig-magination in shadow cabinet making
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The guy from Nova Scotia gets the oil and gas portfolio, even though his province doesn’t produce a gigantic slice of the country’s light, s...
The fault, dear Wade…
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Wade Locke doesn’t like a story in the Thursday Telegram . He dislikes it so much he called a local radio talk show to set the record stra...
He lost on Jeopardy, baby
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Coming in second on Jeopardy is nothing to be ashamed of, there buddy. Good on you. To mark the occasion, here’s an song written 20 yea...
Offshore royalty audits “Behind, big time”: Dunderdale
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In July 2006 when Danny Williams accused ExxonMobil of denying the provincial government access to the books for the Hibernia project there...
20 January 2009
But will Charest expropriate?
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Alcan closes a smelter and slashes production in the latest round of cuts and adjustments: A further six per cent reduction in a...
Euphonium!
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In the musical prelude at the inauguration, musicians would recognise the strains of Ralph Vaughan Williams English Folk Song Suite. Seems...
The voice of the cabinet minister
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Heard on Tuesday January 20, the voice of a cabinet minister on the voice of the cabinet minister, saying: We’re good at issuin’ releas...
Leading a Great City…
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right into the ground. The City of St. John’s became the object of national attention again, but not for a good reason with the attack on ...
19 January 2009
Freedom From Information: faulty reasoning further limits accountability
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In his most recent decision , information and privacy commissioner Ed Ring has struck a blow against government accountability. He did so ...
No tax cuts: Williams
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Notice in this short clip that Premier Danny Williams makes the pitch for expanded employment insurance benefits instead of tax cuts. &q...
Stunner: “Liberal sources” not keen on election
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Like who possibly might have seen this coming ? -srbp-
18 January 2009
Money Talk
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1. From labradore , a post titled “ Responsible Government ”. 2. From the Telegram , the editorial follows up on a story from the Satu...
17 January 2009
Verbal Tic (2)
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Who: Bob Cadigan, president and chief executive officer of NOIA , the association representing oil and gas supply and service companies. [...
16 January 2009
Simmonds nabs plea deal for Byrne
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Former natural resources minister Ed Byrne pleaded guilty to two of the charges against him resulting from the House of Assembly spending s...
Rumpole and the Heavy Heart
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Sir John Mortimer, creator of Horace Rumpole, passed away on Friday, aged 85. -srbp-
Gov pension fund drops $1.6 billion in asset value in 2008
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The provincial government pooled pension fund saw its asset value drop by $1.6 billion in calendar 2008, dropping to $5.1 billion on 31 D...
Busy Work (3)
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Newfoundland Hardwoods is a Crown Corporation established in 1950 to manufacture liquid asphalt and sell chemically treated poles and lumber...
Busy work (2)
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Newfoundland and Labrador Farm Products Corporation is the Crown agency that used to run the chicken processing plant at Pleasantville. Th...
14 January 2009
Two iconic 1960s actors pass away
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Ricardo Montalban , known to most English-speaking fans as either Mr. Rorke from Fantasy Island or as Khan, the villain from the second St...
A bit late for crying now
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Some people – evidently including the governing Provincial Conservatives, the Liberal Opposition and the New Democrats - thought it would b...
Make-work projects
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On the one hand traditional make-work projects may be in decline: The knocks against infrastructure are that it is not as labour-inten...
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