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10 March 2005
Paul Martin invests in Labrador, not Danny Williams
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There was some reason behind Danny Williams' hastily organized road trip to Labrador this week involving the whole cabinet and a giganti...
What was the frequency Kenneth?
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Dan Rather is gone and all the mushy tributes have been paid to him. See ya later buddy. Personally, I never found him of much use either as...
09 March 2005
Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
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John Hamm is enjoying a bump from the offshore deal too. Here's the story on the CRA poll for Nova Scotia as reported by the Chronicle-...
08 March 2005
Polls and the stuff they tell you - amended
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Undoubtedly there will be much comment today on the latest quarterly survey by Corporate Research Associates showing the Williams government...
Trashing a crash test story
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If you think news media never accept news release copy almost verbatim, then check out this little piece from Associated Press, carried on t...
07 March 2005
Paul Watson: cod aren't cute enough
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As tiresome as it is to endure yet again another round of the annual harp seal campaigns by people like Paul Watson, it is clear that in Wat...
Fraser should leave the building
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The latest report from the Auditor General into travel claims and other expenses by the province's Citizen's Representative (CR) ma...
04 March 2005
More by-election bull****
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Hot on the heels of the announcement by defence minister Bill Graham that the feds are spending $10.0 million to resurface the Goose Bay air...
Rompkey and missile defence
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Bill Rompkey is still pushing an X band radar system for Goose Bay. Bravo, Bill. In this CBC Radio story , defence minister Bill Graham even...
03 March 2005
Local soldiers train at Fort Pickett, Virginia
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Approximately 140 reserve soldiers from St. John's left today for a training exercise in Fort Pickett Virginia. The soldiers are from Fi...
Sino Energy timelines and national security
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Since it is now past Wednesday, last weekend's Independent is available online and this week the format has caught up with the hardcop...
02 March 2005
The smell of a by-election ...
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in Newfoundland and Labrador is often the smell of new pavement. Over at VOCM, they are reporting what I said a few days ago: an announc...
Flogging a dead horse... err...Goose
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A faithful reader of these electronic scribblings has brought my attention to a website containing a listing of news stories related to the ...
Tobin: poor man's Rambo
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Check out a CanWest story today on memoirs of a senior federal official involved in the turbot confrontation with Spain a decade ago. It'...
BMD flap overblown
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Two things are making me a little cranky today and neither of them has to do with the fact I am not getting enough fibre in my diet. The fir...
SBX off Labrador? More background info
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Yesterday, I raised the prospect that the United States might opt to place some its ballistic missile defence assets at sea off Labrador rat...
01 March 2005
Goose Bay and BMD
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There's a story by defence writer David Pugliese in the Ottawa Citizen today concerning the impact the Prime Minister's decision no...
Owen Myers, Etchegary and overfishing
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Too bad the Express didn't link Owen Myers column on the fishery last week. He made some interesting comments about overfishing practic...
28 February 2005
The Stunnel is feasible! - updated
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But only with government money. Which means it isn't really feasible at all. You read it here first and NOT at a cost of a $100, 000 of ...
The Independence of Dependence
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This won't take long, but just follow the train of thought. First, the whole Atlantic Accord deal was sold on the basis of making the pr...
What fiscal imbalance?
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This weekend in the Globe, Andrew Coyne had a great column on federal spending including transfers to the provinces. Here's a link to it...
More defence-related quickies
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The budget this week had some new capital acquisitions listed. Here is a quick and dirty look at a couple of the proposed purchases. 1. New...
Is the Goose cooked?
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Some quickie observations on Goose Bay: 1. VOCM is reporting an announcement coming up for Goose Bay. I smell pavement but not much more t...
27 February 2005
Constitutional tomfoolery, Part 2
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Expect to hear more guff this week about the supposed constitutional guarantee in Term 45 of the Terms of Union protecting the Brookfield R...
Constitutional tomfoolery Part 1
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Since it isn't available online, see if you can track down a story from the Saturday edition of the Telegram debunking the anti-confede...
25 February 2005
Before Mr. Byrne goes to Ottawa...
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Ed might want to check this story from cbc.ca: (The link is actually to a longer story). " Ottawa closing experimental farm WebPosted F...
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