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29 December 2008
Uncomfortable words: AbitibiBowater version
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Bill 75 – the AbitibiBowater expropriation bill – contains a clause which holds that no legal action may be taken against the Crown as a res...
AbitibiBowater expropriation: bare-headed public policy
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Like many things in local politics lately, the AbitibiBowater expropriation bill is one of those things in which it is hard to separate the ...
28 December 2008
Freedom From Information: The Big Commute
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Government services minister Kevin O’Brien billed taxpayers almost $20,000 for 16 trips to St. John’s for “ministerial duties” between June...
Freedom From Information: who paid for the junket?
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The Premier and natural resources minister took a trip to Qatar and London, England last June. They held meetings in London with an intern...
Freedom From Information: Ministerial claims now on line
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Just before Christmas, the provincial government released a batch of expense claims for provincial cabinet ministers in a policy supposedly...
27 December 2008
On the street
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One of the little treats to be found at the New York Times online is Bill Cunningham’s “On the street” slideshow. The Times’ octogenarian...
25 December 2008
The Queen’s Christmas Speech, 2008
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Happy Holidays!
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To all Bond Papers readers: May you enjoy peace, prosperity and the continued love of your friends and family today and through the year. -...
24 December 2008
Erasing the distinction, to our detriment
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Used to be, not so long ago, that public servants were different from political staff. The distinction was important as one served to keep...
Blind obedience to authority
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Researchers at a California university repeated the famous 1961 Milgram experiment on authority. They got the same result . “Although...
23 December 2008
Missing bits
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From a CBC story in which , among other things, Danny Williams brushes off the NAFTA issue in the Abitibi repo job: The Newfoundland an...
Condie and Hillary are listening too.
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Great horny toads! A couple of weeks ago, Danny Williams claimed that president-elect Barack Obama was copying the Williams formula for ...
Frontier to buy out Aurora Energy
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Frontier announced Monday it will buy up the remaining common shares in Aurora Energy that Frontier doesn’t already own. Aurora’s share pr...
22 December 2008
The opposite of sober second thought
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Jack Layton paid a visit to confer with his provincial counterpart, Danny Williams on Monday. He also dropped in on Lorraine Michael, leader...
18 more appointed to Antechamber to the Kingdom of Heaven
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So much for senate reform. Sure the federal Conservatives said they wouldn’t do it, but what else is new? Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and ...
The power for good or evil
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As Daniel Veniez writes in the Globe , provincial government’s have all the power needed to sort out the country’s forest industry: Mr...
21 December 2008
Something’s missing: Powers, Hydro, Danny, Abitibi and The Globe
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Tim Powers is a well-known Conservative activist who, in his work-a-day, is a professional lobbyist. As we’ve noted in this space before, h...
Breaking: AB closes Grand Falls woods operations
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CBC News is reporting that AbitibiBowater unexpectedly shut its woods operations in central Newfoundland this morning. Undoubtedly this is...
20 December 2008
Weekend reading: unilateral action edition
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1. Telegram editor Russell Wangersky’s Saturday column in which he suggests the court action over the government’s expropriation of asset...
19 December 2008
What would the Kingfish do?
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Apparently, the only difference between Louisiana and Newfoundland is that they elected Huey Long once. Stark willie update : An astute ...
Abitibi’s letter to Danny
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Here’s the shorthand: “Dear Danny: F.O.A.D. Strong letter to follow. Love (not really), Dave.” This one ain’t over by a long shot. ...
Fantasy Island
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Delusional or in hyper-torque mode? Either way, provincial finance minister Jerome Kennedy is living on Fantasy Island if he thinks the r...
Expect more of this
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The political fallout of losing Abitibi’s Stephenville mill was soaked up by the giant Alberta job sponge. Well, that sponge is now being ...
Expropriation impact
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At left, a graph of AbitibiBowater share prices over the past five days on the New York Stock Exchange. Note the peak on Wednesday follow...
18 December 2008
Haste lays waste
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When it comes to things not local, the current provincial administration has two basic modes: pick a fight with it or, if it is the federal...
Crude breaks 40 – on the way down
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West Texas Intermediate for January settled at US$36.22 in trading in New York despite a cut in production announced by the Organization of...
17 December 2008
One down…
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One to go? So if expropriating assets - “repatriating them” in WilliamsSpeak – worked in the AbitibiBowater case, what are the odds the pr...
Déjà vue all over again
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Just when everything was settling down, the brute force expropriation of AbitibiBowater assets has stirred everything up again. Lord Haw ...
The forest for the junk
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There's something about woods work in central Newfoundland that brings a tendency in some to take junks of wood to the sides of heads. ...
Whistling past the graveyard: forestry version
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Union and town politicians in Grand Falls-Windsor appear to be under the ludicrously mistaken impression that Tuesday's expropriation by...
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