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Churchill Falls and Muskrat Falls - Background
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28 April 2010
The Abitibi Expropriation Fiasco: TARFU
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The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador not only expropriated a paper mill it didn’t intend to seize, but two major houses and land righ...
27 April 2010
Is the Abitibi Fiasco on the agenda?
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The Premier’s trip to Ottawa announced late Tuesday morning is only a surprise if you didn’t know about it in advance. Regular readers o...
Where the money goes – 15 years later
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Just to put the Strategic Social Plan (1995) in a bit of context, you should realise that health care spending as a share of the provincial...
26 April 2010
The Abitibi Fiasco: a house divided
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Premier Danny Williams - House of Assembly, April 21, 2010 - on the costs associated with his disastrous expropriation bill: What we ...
Kremlinology 20: Who will replace Danny?
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There’s a question that will likely be on the lips of most Newfoundlanders and Labradorians within 12 months. Even if, by some strange set...
25 April 2010
Strong. Proud. Determined. …or something like that.
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For those who didn’t read Maxime Bernier’s speech that ruffled a few feathers in Quebec, Bernier posted the text on his blog . The speech...
Bank of Canada gov warns about recovery
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From the Globe and Mail : “Anyone who sits and looks at what happened and says, ‘Well, that wasn’t a Great Recession,’ hasn’t appreciat...
23 April 2010
Dunderdale on Abitibi/Fortis/ENEL expropriation: Oops!
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An obviously stressed natural resources minister Kathy Dunderdale admitted to the House of Assembly yesterday that there were problems with ...
Fragile Economy: now three steps back …and loving it
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Not only did the provincial government explicitly refuse to participate in talks that would diversify the provincial economic trade base, i...
22 April 2010
A million monkeys…
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There’s an old joke about putting a millions to work banging away at typewriters. Eventually, according to the law of averages, probability...
Western Star raises issue of Danny Williams’ resignation
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The Western Star, the only other daily newspaper in Newfoundland and Labrador and the newspaper in the Premier’s district, is raising the p...
Strategic Social Plan (1995) – Social Profile
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This Province's unique advantage is the strength of character, resilience, ingenuity and enterprise of its people. In the past 50 years,...
21 April 2010
Strategic Social Plan (1995) - Introduction
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In June 1992, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador released Change and Challenge , the Province's Strategic Economic Plan. In the...
20 April 2010
Dust to dust
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Apparently, the last wish of the Icelandic economy was to have its ashes scattered across Europe. -srbp-
Desperate Remedies
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All principle converts to cash . The official policy is reductio ad argentum . As your humble e-scribbler put it only a few weeks ago: ...
Offshore board announces 2010 land sale
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The official release: “The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) announced today the details of the 2010 Cal...
Megamania: Wacky edition
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A 40-year-old hydro-electric megaproject, on a river already home to massive hydro development, estimated to cost at least $6 billion, that ...
Strategic Social Plan (1995) - Forward
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This Strategic Social Plan Consultation Paper initiates the final phase of an intensive Provincial planning process which began more tha...
19 April 2010
Taking responsibility – comments, courts and disclosure
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A Nova Scotia court decision last week ordering The Coast to cough up details of people who left comments on the newspaper’s website caused...
18 April 2010
Will Americans shift oil attention to own offshore?
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According to figures in a 2006 study for the United States federal government, the Atlantic offshore area that may be opened soon to drilli...
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