The Sir Robert Bond Papers
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Churchill Falls and Muskrat Falls - Background
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09 June 2011
The looming debt problem
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The government’s favourite economist is sounding alarm bells about the provincial government’s financial health. The finance minister, on ...
08 June 2011
Locke warns of financial problems
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Wade Locke’s been making the rounds of local media in advance of his talk tonight at the Harris Centre of Memorial University. Your humble ...
The perils of polling stories
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Not surprisingly, local media reports of Corporate Research Associates’ most recent quarterly poll got the news spectacularly wrong. For e...
07 June 2011
Dunderdale disapproval doubles; Tory vote drops to 44%
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What a difference a federal election can make to provincial poll results. According to the latest Angus-Reid poll, 43% of respondents ar...
Quentin Jurgens he ain’t
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Bloc NDP member of parliament Ryan Cleary had the chance to make his first remarks to the House of Commons on Monday. He didn’t speak abou...
Building permits down in April
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The value of building permits issued in the province in April fell by 16% compared to the same month in 2010 according to information relea...
Nightmare on Muskrat Falls #nlpoli
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The intrepid labradore takes yet another slice at the official government rationale for Muskrat Falls by showing the electricity rates Nalc...
06 June 2011
Williams ex-chief of staff lands at Muskrat project
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Not surprisingly, Brian Crawley - Danny Williams’ former chief of staff - is now a manager with the Muskrat Falls project . Williams anno...
Mythbusting: Not Kari, but still worth a look
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labradore charts the total electricity output from Nalcor, less Churchill Falls, Menihek and a few other bits and pieces. Note that the...
Harris Centre: A prosperity plan for Newfoundland and Labrador
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Mark this one on your calendar: “Over the past ten years, Newfoundland and Labrador has gone from poverty to prosperity, all due to reven...
Unite the Left
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Some members of the Bloc NDP think the party needs to take a turn to the left in order to capitalise on the gains from May’s general electio...
05 June 2011
In the Brownies
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04 June 2011
Manitoba-mooseless Traffic
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All the stuff people were reading at Bond Papers rather than getting excited about a hockey team. Or maybe it was in addition to. In any...
03 June 2011
Dundernomics 101: the promise of problems ahead
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Take a look at this picture. It comes from Wade Locke’s presentation at a conference of the province’s credit unions in Gander in the l...
02 June 2011
Can Len Simms be far behind?
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Ross Reid quit his job as deputy minister of the Penny Rowe department and a short time later picked up a new gig as the provincial Conser...
Dundernomics 101: All your toasters are belong to us
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labradore does yet another fine job exposing the completely ludicrous claims of those backing Kathy Dunderdale’s Empire of Debt, doing busi...
Give Danny the money
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Your humble e-scribbler is no fan of handing public cash to private sector companies for any reason. And make no mistake: when Danny Willi...
Dundernomics 101: the cost of doing business
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Premier Kathy Dunderdale, displaying her keen awareness of mathematics – among other things - in the House of Assembly on Monday, May 9: ...
01 June 2011
Well, she asked for one…
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PREMIER DUNDERDALE : Mr. Speaker, if somebody can name a reason why this government would not want Kiewit to be successful in this contra...
The Galaxy Quest for Relevance
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Where is Jason Nesmith when you need him? The fictional commander of the fictional star ship Protector at least took a firm stand when de...
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