The Sir Robert Bond Papers
The real political division in society is between authoritarians and libertarians.
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14 February 2017
Trust, facts, and truth #nlpoli
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Trust is the foundation of any strong relationship. That's why a great many journalists, troubled at the decline of their industry, emp...
13 February 2017
Captain Sweatpants and the future of news media #nlpoli
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The numbers are so large they take your breath away. In a poll conducted for The Public Policy Forum for its recent report on Canadian new...
10 February 2017
The Doldrums #nlpoli
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MQO conducted a little poll in late January and found the party standings among voters remains where it was in November. No surprise. N...
09 February 2017
Sweat Equity - panel discussion #nlpoli
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ISER Books and the Queen Elizabeth II Library will hold a panel discussion on the recent ISER publication Sweat Equity: Cooperative House Bu...
08 February 2017
The Classroom Jungle #nlpoli
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CBC aired the first of three half hour programs on Monday night featuring a bunch of teachers talking about problems in the Newfoundland ...
07 February 2017
Words and Violence #nlpoli
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Canadian writer J.J. McCullough used a column in the Washington Post last week to ask a very useful question: why it is that the progressiv...
06 February 2017
Cultural Replicant Fade #nlpoli
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The people of Gambo held their first mummers' parade the December before last. The Gander Beacon, the weekly newspaper that covers e...
03 February 2017
Full of sound and fury #nlpoli
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Pity Earle McCurdy. The provincial New Democratic Party boss is rightly getting raked over the political coals for his Twitter comment...
02 February 2017
What British soldiers ate in the Great War #nlpoli
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01 February 2017
No Market Research Required #nlpoli
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In the House of Commons, members can put questions to cabinet ministers several ways. One of them is called Questions on the Order Paper. ...
Populism: the lesson from Venezuela #nlpoli
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Born and raised in Venezuela, Andreas Miguel Rondon is an economist who now lives in Madrid. He wrote for The Washington Post last week ...
31 January 2017
What is it about Quebec and mass killings? #nlpoli
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Compared to the United States, there haven't been a lot of mass killings in Canada. Period. Full stop. Canada is predominantly ...
Local news media in the post-factual world #nlpoli
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Chris O'Neill-Yates is a veteran CBC journalist. Like most people in her line of work, Chris is on Twitter plugging both her own work ...
30 January 2017
Duff in the hole encore #nlpoli
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Oh dear. The CBC has gone off to the mainland to get Duff Conacher to make a comment about the need for political finance reform in Newfo...
Mean Tweets #nlpoli
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In the United States, a late-night television program created a regular feature that has celebrities read the comments made about them on T...
27 January 2017
Feehan, electricity prices, and the bigger problem. #nlpoli
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Jim Feehan's proposal to change the way we price electricity in the province got some media attention -over the past 24 hours. Feehan ...
26 January 2017
Faroese fishermen skirting Canadian port ban via St. Pierre #nlpoli
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Fishing boats from the Faroe Islands are getting around a ban on shipping through Canadian ports by unloading their catch in St. Pierre firs...
25 January 2017
Kevin, Donald, and Danny #nlpoli
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A Forum poll released on Monday showed 27% of those surveyed thought celebrity businessman Kevin O'Leary would make the best leader of...
24 January 2017
Ratings trump truth: Justified edition #nlpoli
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Updated (scroll to the -srbp-) Someone in Gander Bay has been catching and selling quantities of smelt. The Department of Fisheries and ...
23 January 2017
Sovereignty #nlpoli
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Newfoundland and Labrador is one of the very few countries on the planet that got itself into such a financial mess that it gave up self-gov...
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