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27 January 2016
Jerry Earle won't retweet this post #nlpoli
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Apparently the surest way to piss off a couple of university academics a.k.a the NDP policy brain-trust is to point out how their take on th...
26 January 2016
Revenue problem #nlpoli
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Jon Parsons has an interesting take on the provincial government's financial mess. It’s worth taking a few minutes to go through it. ...
25 January 2016
Turmoil tamed #nlpoli
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Few people would be brave enough to start out a book on politics in Newfoundland and Labrador with the words “Paul Lane.” Fewer still cou...
22 January 2016
DBRS downgrades government rating #nlpoli
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DBRS issued a revised rating for the provincial government on Thursday. It remains "A" but a change to trending from "stable...
21 January 2016
A chasm they can't ignore #nlpoli
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That didn’t take long. The fundamental strategic political problem Dwight Ball and his senior advisors have been busily building since las...
20 January 2016
Will DBRS re-do its rating for Newfoundland and Labrador? #nlpoli
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Premier Paul Davis was proud of the fact that a bond rating agency had confirmed the province's credit rating. Curiously, he never tol...
19 January 2016
Updating the Alternative Spending Plan #nlpoli
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In April 2013, SRBP ran a series of posts about public spending. The goal was to show how the government could have avoided its serious fina...
18 January 2016
Process Question #nlpoli
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Finance minister Cathy Bennett told CBC that "everything is on the table and we have to make sure that we don't leave anything tha...
15 January 2016
‘Engagement’ can be an excuse for avoiding action #nlpoli
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by Craig Westcott The Ball administration is off to a shaky start. Actually, it seems afraid to start at all. Tuesday’s press conference a...
14 January 2016
Thank you, Danny Williams #nlpoli
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Rob Strong has been a key player in the local oil and gas industry pretty much since the earliest days. He knows what he is talking abo...
13 January 2016
Clarity #nlpoli
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From the announcement of "intense" public consultations to solve the provincial government's financial crisis: Question: H...
12 January 2016
Pressure #nlpoli
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A curious thing happens in societies where a huge amount of the collective income derives from outside the local economy and the local tax b...
11 January 2016
Enough #nlpoli
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You can easily lose track of the number of former cabinet ministers who will tell you the same thing. Ask them about the one lesson of gov...
08 January 2016
Equalization... again #nlpoli
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Equalization is a really simple idea. In order to ensure that Canadians across the country have access to comparable services regardless o...
07 January 2016
St. John's Land Prices 1997 - 2015
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An argy-bargy erupted on Twitter Wednesday involving a bunch of Danny Williams Fan Klubbers on the one side and a couple of people who have ...
06 January 2016
Let's hear it for the Fraser Institute geniuses #nlpoli
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A year after Kathy Dunderdale left office, the Fraser Institute said she was one of the best fiscal managers of all the Premiers in Canada....
05 January 2016
Metrics #nlpoli
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Telegram editor Russell Wangersky tried on Monday to put the government’s financial mess into some shape that people could understand. Th...
04 January 2016
The Bridge to Ottawa #nlpoli
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Premier Dwight Ball said everything is on the table to deal with the massive financial problem facing his administration. And then, in a s...
03 January 2016
Up the harbour and down the shore, again #nlpoli
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Today marks SRBP's anniversary. The first post appeared on January 3, 2005. Events of the past few weeks are a reminder of both how m...
31 December 2015
Consistency #nlpoli
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"We need to find a way to bridge us [from] where we are currently until the commodities rebound and be [sic] the significant contributo...
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