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30 April 2009
Expropriation has financial impacts on NL-based Fortis
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From Fortis Inc’s first quarter financial statements , issued Thursday comes an indication of the wider impact Bill 75 has had. Bear in mind...
Williams offers to subsidize AbitibiBowater
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No matter how you slice this, any severance pay going to former AbitibiBowater employees in Newfoundland and Labrador will come out of taxpa...
Tory-gate hits 30K mark
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There’s at least $30,000 of public money for Tory party work in the Ed Byrne statement of facts, according to the official opposition. Th...
Disquieting similarities
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Via labradore , a disquieting trend among certain people leaving comments on various websites over time. 1. During the Cameron Inquiry w...
In which Pooh worries about H1N1 Influenza A
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29 April 2009
Warren the K: anti-tobacco lobbyist
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Effective March 1, 2009, Warren Kinsella is a registered lobbyist with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador as part of a nation-wide ...
Total shocker: Abitibi pensioners version
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AbitibiBowater is in bankruptcy protection. The company has stopped topping up unfunded employee pensions on the good-faith basis they’ve...
28 April 2009
Fitz can give him some pointers
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Former Connie/Tory member of parliament Bill Casey is Nova Scotia’s new ambassador to Hy’s. Maybe our own Man in a Blue Line Cab can giv...
The House of Assembly, condensed
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1. bit courtesy of Courtesy of nottawa . For the record, the grandstanding was not supplied by the Premier. He is apparently still on s...
27 April 2009
Speed kills
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…a political career. -srbp-
26 April 2009
Phake photos add up to more tourism travails
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As you can see at Geoff Meeker’s blog and at labradore , the provincial tourism departments advertising campaigns are marred by what amou...
25 April 2009
Tory-gate: the opinion columns version
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From the Saturday Telegram, Russell Wangersky’s column: In fact, [chief electoral officer Paul] Reynolds defends the spending by sayi...
24 April 2009
Two charged with 73 election finance violations
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Hang on, there. Don’t get excited. It isn’t Tory-gate. The mayor of Vaughan, Ontario and her husband have been charged with election...
Freedom from Information: another missing report by Bill Marshall
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Coincidence of coincidences. Your humble e-scribbler mentions Bill Marshall in jest in a post that connects back to the whole Ed Byrne Tor...
23 April 2009
Tory-gate: former electoral officer supports spending probe
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Paul Reynolds’ predecessor knows that to do. Former chief electoral officer Chuck Furey says that he’d have appointed a retired judge to ...
AbitibiBowater launches NAFTA challenge
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The following was released today by AbitibiBowater (paragraphing changed for legibility): US$ ABWTQ (OTC) ABH (TSX) MONTREAL, April 23 /CNW...
Tory-gate shocker: Williams backs hand-picked chief electoral officer
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What else would we expect the Premier to do but back the guy he picked for the job? -srbp-
Tory-gate: Making wrong a right
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1. labradore does the usual fine job of documenting the Progressive Conservative Party’s reliance on paid campaign staff. Note especially...
22 April 2009
Offshore board invites public comment on Hebron project environmental document
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Form the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board: The public is invited to comment on the draft comprehensive study s...
Tory-gate: the PC party election spending scandal
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1. The Chief Electoral Officer’s statement on why he is refusing to investigate. Note that CEO Paul Reynolds apparently only spoke with ...
21 April 2009
Word from the bunker: Reynolds issues red herring statement
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Chief electoral officer Paul Reynolds – under fire over the Progressive Conservative Party election spending scandal - issued a written stat...
20 April 2009
The ghost of Richard Squires: party work with public money
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According to the statement of facts in the Ed Byrne case, members of the House of Assembly were reimbursed for expenses incurred while repre...
Real political identity confusion
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The province’s l’il Liberals are holding a fundraiser in May. For 25 bucks you can have some pancakes and listen to a guest speaker. Who...
IOC may shut operations from July to October
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Ironore Company of Canada (IOC) has advised the Newfoundland and Labrador labour minister that the company will close its mining operations ...
18 April 2009
More partisan business with public money ?
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It appears the Provincial Conservatives fought two by-elections on the Great Northern Peninsula in 2001 with public money. CBC News has a...
17 April 2009
For the record: The Tory Organizer and the Swirling Scandal
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From the agreed statement of facts in the Ed Byrne fraud and bribery conviction, the sections related to Wayne Clarke, a Provincial Conserva...
Mr. Byrne goes to jail
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Danny Williams’ predecessor as Provincial Conservative Party leader and his former right-hand political man is headed to jail after pleading...
16 April 2009
Chief electoral officer refuses to investigate alleged campaign finance irregularity of his old political party
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According to CBC’s David Cochrane, a Progressive Conservative organizer received $3,000 for working on the by-election in St. Barbe in 2000...
The Matrix runs on Windows XP
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Just in case you are wondering, Winston : -srbp-
Offshore board appoints retired Justice Robert Wells to head helicopter crash probe
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The following was issued today by the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board: The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador O...
AbitibiBowater seeks creditor protection
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The following was issued today by AbitibiBowater: US$ ABH (NYSE, TSX) MONTREAL, April 16 /CNW Telbec/ - AbitibiBowater Inc. ("...
15 April 2009
Gimme your lunch money, dork: the latest editorial version
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The Telegram editorial this wintry Wednesday in April tackles the ever-stimulating issue of federal-provincial fiscal relations. That’s f...
Chinese officials in town
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Wags will no doubt make much more of the story at the government’s official news agency that Chinese officials are in town to learn how we ...
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