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25 May 2016
Ball digs himself deeper into hole #nlpoli
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Dwight Ball's latest version of Ed Martin's departure from Nalcor only deepens the political quagmire into which the Premier and hi...
24 May 2016
Red Flags #nlpoli
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If you want to understand the depth of Dwight Ball's political problem, understand that as of Victoria Day, Paul Lane - never the shar...
23 May 2016
How government decides - From Bow-Wow to Basenji #nlpoli
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The Liberals' signature policy initiative is Bill 1 . It is so important that it is the only piece of new legislation the Liberals hav...
20 May 2016
How the other half pays #nlpoli
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Brian Jones. Statistics Canada can be your friend. CANSIM 204-0001 to be precise. You don't have to manipulate numbers. There a...
A different kind of P3
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Paul Lane won Mount Pearl-Southlands in 2015 by a mere 241 votes. In 2011 , he won a seat in the House of Assembly by 700 votes. Anyone...
19 May 2016
Did you hear the one about the Lane and the Ball? #nlpoli
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Paul Lane has taken Dwight Ball's measure. How Ball and the Liberals respond to Lane's challenge will determine the fate of the a...
18 May 2016
A dose of reality for Lorraine and her friends #nlpoli
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During Question Period in the House of Assembly on Tuesday, Lorraine Michael asked the finance minister for the information that showed that...
17 May 2016
Six Rationalisations Pretending to Be Policy #nlpoli
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Policy solves problems. At it's simplest level, policy answers a question. Cancelling Muskrat Falls is a good example. We are faci...
16 May 2016
Responsible Government #nlpoli
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Many of you may not have heard of Jerry Dean until this past week. Jerry is from Botwood. Last fall the people on Exploits district electe...
12 May 2016
Up the harbour and down the shore... once more #nlpoli
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Here's another one that started life as a column at the old Independent . And, as with "The politics of history" it can ...
11 May 2016
The politics of history (again) #nlpoli
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Originally written for The Independent in 2003 "The politics of history" has become a post that continues to resonate with your h...
10 May 2016
Stunnel mania #nlpoli
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Right off the bat, let's fess up to a mistake. The 2004 research into the Stunnel cost "cost a total of $351,674, with a contribu...
09 May 2016
Choices and values: ideologically-driven nonsense versus reality #nlpoli
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Memorial University history professor Robert Sweeny discovered something recent. he discovered that the finance minister's budget speec...
08 May 2016
Measuring Thick: either or edition #nlpoli
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While Des Whelan was clacking out his column for Saturday's Telegram one of the editors - B rian Jones - came at the government'...
07 May 2016
Measuring Thick: business edition #nlpoli
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You cannot manage what you cannot measure, says Des Whelan, president of the Board of Trade this year. Des gets a column in the province...
06 May 2016
Hole in ground to give Labrador "advantage of fixed link" to mainland: premier #nlpoli
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The provincial government will spend $750,000 this year to study the feasibility of digging a hole from the Great Northern Peninsula to Blan...
05 May 2016
The other side of the hill - choices and values 2 #nlpoli
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Wednesday's post - Choices and values - came from the perspective of someone outside the echo chamber of politics in Newfoundland and La...
04 May 2016
Choices and values #nlpoli
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Gerry Rogers, a New Democrat member of the House of Assembly, got a bit enthusiastic on Twitter the other night about " building [a] bu...
03 May 2016
Province to spend $750K to study feasibility of hole in the ground #nlpoli
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At a time when the provincial government does not have any money to spend foolishly, it is hard to fathom why cabinet is taxing books to rai...
02 May 2016
A cut too far #nlpoli
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There's a scene in the movie A Bridge too far where the British soldiers are trying to push down a road as part of a major attack on the...
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