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04 April 2005
Blogs and real world information
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Two episodes over the weekend illustrated one of the conflicts between the land o' blogs on the Internet, sometimes called the blogosphe...
01 April 2005
What are they thinking? Are they thinking? They think?
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Enjoy this Sun story . Apparently, Stephen Harper has decided that public bluster is better than anything else when it comes to dealing wit...
Time for a New Approach
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Goldman Sachs yesterday - so it isn't an April Fools Day joke - reported crude prices may hit US$105 in the next few years with a poss...
I wish it was an April Fools' joke
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Mile One is a time machine for ancient entertainment. VOCM is reporting that country music singer George Jones is coming to Mile One to per...
31 March 2005
Kevin O'Brien for Health Minister
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Tom Marshall must be some kind of bizarre two-legged homing pigeon. Either that or he is a binary traveler: St. Johns or Corner Brook. How e...
Winter availability
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For just a little background on the winter availability deals between CFLCo and Hydro Quebec, flip to these two releases: 1. Issued By Natu...
More Churchill Stuff
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Here's some additional information and observations on the Churchill hydroelectric issues. Tomorrow, I would hope to see from the provin...
The Churchill Options
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As much as Premier Danny Williams might like to open development of the Lower Churchill to the world and have it developed using creative th...
The choice is ours - Goose Bay revisited
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Since Thursday is turning out to be a Labrador day here at the Bond Papers, I thought I'd also reprint the text of a commentary done by ...
RAF Goose Bay: a fond farewell
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Today is the last day for the Royal Air Force detachment at Goose Bay. CBC keeps referring to it as the "British" Royal Air Force ...
30 March 2005
First Lower Churchill proposal unveiled
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In a proposal unveiled today, Ontario and Quebec have partnered with the private sector engineering firm SNC-Lavalin to develop the Lower Ch...
A prayer for John Ottenheimer
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No matter how you feel about anything, say a quiet prayer for John Ottenheimer. John Ottenheimer is one of those guys in politics whose sinc...
Surprise, surprise, surprise,
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as Gomer Pyle used to say. This CP story today confirms what many of us have been saying for days: The whole C-43 thing would blow over if i...
New hope for old media hound
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Terri Schiavo's parents can rest easy. Jesse Jackson has now shown up before the cameras telling everyone he is on their side. See this ...
29 March 2005
You can hear the eyelids slamming shut...
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After a few days of hype and what is euphemistically called speculation by serious journalists, there is a CBC national radio news story ton...
More offshore goings on - what is happening.
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Flip around the net today and you'll see some stories on the offshore bill currently before parliament in Ottawa. CBC Radio has Loyola S...
Blarney - the Green Dinosaur from the Southern Shore
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The ongoing whining about Bill C-43 reached a predictable pitch over the past 24 hours as more news media picked up the story and the Open L...
28 March 2005
Sex, biological weapons and not a condom in sight
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Flip around the net long enough and other things appear on the Jennifer Murphy case. Flip down to the end of this post for some really inter...
27 March 2005
The Nigeria scam spreads
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About 10 years ago, the bunko artists in Nigeria - the oil-soaked country is actually one giant criminal wasteland, but that is another stor...
Some questions for DND/CF
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According to a Canadian Press (CP) story , the Canadian Forces (CF) has issued a CANFORGEN to all Canadian Forces personnel warning them to...
Loyola's Latest Lamentations
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Oh, my. With Parliament closed for Easter, seems like Loyola Hearn has nothing better to do than bombard VOCM with his cryptic comments that...
26 March 2005
Laughable Loyola
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If he weren't so utterly annoying, the whiner from Renews Loyola Hearn would be the funniest member of parliament elected from this prov...
25 March 2005
Speaking of nailing people to trees...
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It seems to be going around. My headline today is intended to be ironic rather than blasphemous. On this Good Friday, take a little flip ov...
24 March 2005
Would they have said she had an Albertan or Jamaican accent?
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When a buddy of mine went off to graduate school about 20 years ago, he marveled at the subtle and ever-present tendency among the political...
To govern is to choose
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Politics is about choices. It is about voters making choices. It is about politicians making choices. On that level, there is no surprise in...
23 March 2005
Loyola Hearn - More blarney from Renews
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Here's VOCM story on Loyola Hearn who asked the federal fisheries minister to stop foreign fishing vessel owners from paying bounties t...
The view from the cape
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Here's a link to some comments by Peter Fenwick, former leader of the provincial New Democrats and now a commentator and researcher ass...
How many employees do you need, Danny?
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How many can I afford? Last year during the budget fiasco, or the fiasco budget, Loyola Sullivan made a big issue about how this province ha...
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