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Churchill Falls and Muskrat Falls - Background
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12 February 2009
Freedom from information: no comment on process because the process exists
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On January 8, your humble e-scribbler sent an e-mail to the natural resources department seeking some clarification of issues related to the...
The notional national media
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Go to the Globe and Mail website. Try and find a story from the February 11 edition by Rheal Seguin on a supposed border flap between Que...
11 February 2009
The dark side of local media celebrity
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“The cost of celebrity” - the first of a four-parter at Geoff Meeker’s media watch blog. Thank the stars or whatever that bloggers don’t ...
10 February 2009
Trouble in Harper-ville
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Two senior advisors set to leave the Harper PMO is not a good sign for the Conservative leader. Even Don Martin is talking about it. Me...
Brain drain
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Eddy Campbell, acting president at Memorial University, is taking up the president’s job at University of New Brunswick . UNB likes his un...
Dunderdale a peace envoy to Ottawa?
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Deputy premier Kathy Dunderdale turned up in Ottawa on Monday. As part of the usual courtesy, the Speaker of the House of Commons drew att...
Ontario Dippers made illegal donation to NL Dipper in 2003
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Unless “Ontario NDP” is someone’s really odd name, the New Democratic Party in Ontario made a donation to a Labrador New Democrat’s re-elect...
09 February 2009
Words matter: the Mike Duffy version
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What Senator Mike Duffy said right before the words for which he was rightly criticised: Honourable senators, I urge you to ignore the...
The smear of schmeergelder
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When former New Brunswick gas regulator David Nelson couldn’t impugn a think tank report that shows – as drivers know – that gas price regu...
Government to woods workers: you’re SOL
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In December, the provincial government introduced a bill to expropriate Abitibi assets in the province. The approach would work – said the...
Innu land claims vote postponed
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The Labradorian is reporting that the vote on the Innu land claims agreement originally scheduled for 31 January has been postponed indefin...
5 years and counting: still no sustainable development act
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A 2003 Provincial Conservative election promise - to ensure that economic development and the environment were in sync - remains unfilled ...
08 February 2009
Uncommon tourism potential: A vision of hydro towers in a UNESCO World Heritage site
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On Friday, the provincial government announced the creation of a new bureaucracy to promote tourism to the province , as if that was the ans...
Selective perception
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The Telegram’s front page story on Friday reports on a study released by the Montreal Economic Institute that, according to the Telegram ...
Verbal tics (4)
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Who: Danny Williams When: Saturday, February 7, 2009 Where: Interview with Kathleen Petty for CBC Radio’s The House . Score: 23 “y...
“We want to be independent and self-sufficient”
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Some views on Canada, Confederation, Newfoundland and Labrador and what it is all about, from the words of one man and his administration, s...
The Hurt Locker: Monkey-tossing can’t work when people know the truth
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Remember that right from the start Bond Pape rs pegged this latest Equalization flap as a way of pretending that whatever fiscal mess the g...
05 February 2009
Verbal tics (3)
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Who: Danny Williams When: February 3, 2009 Interview: Scrum video. Score: 55 “ya knows” in 16 minutes and 56 seconds. Does not ...
Dog-whistle
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In politics, dog-whistling is the use of words that are likely to be interpreted by certain segments of the population in ways that others w...
A duff in the…
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So maybe Senator Mike Duffy was a bit over the top in his remarks a couple of days ago – and grossly inappropriate in the senate chamber - ...
04 February 2009
Face-off!
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A study in contrasts between two hockey players. The one: Kovalev said he talked to Lang when he got out of the hospital. “He di...
I wanna be your sledgehammer
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“But you don't get hit over the head with a sledgehammer,…” The legislature is supreme and that is good, as Premier Danny Williams...
03 February 2009
PurPle haZe
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“Who the f*ck’s he trying to impress?” came the voice of a steadfast friend as soon as the phone came up close to an ear. “Who?” says your...
Breaking: Iggy owned by DW
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Michael Ignatieff will try and save face in today’s budget vote by claiming he is asking Liberal members of parliament from Newfoundland and...
02 February 2009
Wagging the dog
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Evidently it’s far better to pound at Equalization than take some action against American protectionism on behalf of a provincial economy ...
It is better to give than receive…
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but when you both can give and receive, it’s even nicer. $10,000 for the group, and a couple of hundred for the candidate of the party ...
Equalization “best of” times, the worst of times
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As your humble e-scribbler writes this latest Equalization post, Liberal member of parliament Scott Simms is telling some reporter at CBC t...
Shocker: Provincial Tory pol threatens federal MPs over budget
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Provincial Conservative Doc O’Keefe - the mayor of St. John’s - says that Liberal members of parliament from this province are putting the...
01 February 2009
Province takes shares for cash
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The provincial government took shares rather than provide loans with eight of the companies identified by the provincial innovation departme...
Taxpayer cash in mysterious company unrecoverable
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The provincial government will have to write off upwards of $675,000 in taxpayers money sunk into a mysterious company in 2006 according to...
Saturday leftovers
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1. Lana Payne, head of the province’s labour federation, writes a Saturday column in the Telegram accusing Iggy and Harper of playing the...
Do they give awards for non-news?
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Presidency position goes public. The provincial government decides to posts ads for people interested in being head of the status of women...
31 January 2009
Steadfast shifting
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A day after a Bond Papers post documenting the flips, flops and contradictory positions taken by the provincial government on Equalization ...
Iceland set to name new PM
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The new Icelandic prime minister is the country’s longest serving parliamentarian with previous experience in cabinet. She’s also openly ...
Equalization flips, flops and fumbles
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Danny Williams once scorned the O’Brien formula that counted only 50% of the province’s oil and mineral revenues saying that the concept ha...
29 January 2009
The tolling of the bells
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While most of us don’t understand the intricacies and complexities of Equalization, we’ve had enough experience to know that when Danny Will...
Vale Inco nickel processor a go
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The company’s release : In December 2008, Vale Inco Newfoundland and Labrador submitted a draft Implementation Plan for the Long Harbour...
The Halo Effect
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Handlers always have to keep an eye for the background where their boss is speaking. They look for potted plants, odd colours, people or ...
28 January 2009
Shocker: coalition dead; Ig-team to vote for budget
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Amazing, isn’t it? No one could possibly have seen this coming. -srbp-
The day of reckoning
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News reports are that the Premier is calling on federal members of parliament to vote against the federal budget, regardless of what they wo...
The scrum, raw
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From the cbc.ca/nl website, the raw video of the Premier’s Tuesday scrum . Two things to note: 1. CBC’s David Cochrane is persistent in...
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