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Churchill Falls and Muskrat Falls - Background
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17 June 2016
Core Public Service Numbers #nlpoli
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Somebody requested the number of public servants through Access to Information and the folks in the department answered only half the questi...
16 June 2016
The Budget and the Economy #nlpoli
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The Conference Board of Canada says the recent budget has tipped the provincial economy into a recession next year. Finance minister Cathy...
Making the best of a bad deal #nlpoli
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Here's the short version of the implications flowing from Nalcor's announcement on Wednesday: 1. Continuing Muskrat Falls is a ...
15 June 2016
Cash Debt and GDP #nlpoli
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For those who find this stuff interesting, here are some numbers to mull over. You may have heard of comparing the net debt to the gross d...
14 June 2016
Marc "Two Engines" Garneau and Bad Decision-Making #nlpoli
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Cast your mind all the way back to the last time Canada bought new fighter jets. Ooop. Lost most of you already. No memory...
13 June 2016
What's wrong #nlpoli
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As with a lot of things in local politics, the most interesting thing wasn't the fact that Steve Marshall barred Roger Grimes from a ho...
10 June 2016
Turning Point #nlpoli
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The Great Filibuster of 2016 came to an abrupt end on Thursday afternoon as the two opposition parties decided to pack it in, having gaining...
09 June 2016
The 'eart of Darkness #nlpoli
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No one would be surprised if a cell phone video turned up in the next few days on youtube showing Dwight Ball before he broke his silence ...
08 June 2016
The Fan Klub, Churchill, and taxes - update
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As the provincial Conservatives and New Democrats filibuster the levy bill in the House of Assembly that Winston Churchill quote about taxes...
07 June 2016
The House and Twitter #nlpoli
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Guest post by Simon Lono The latest House of Assembly Twitter flap raises more issues that it first appears. Leaving aside the wisdom of...
06 June 2016
Entitlements and examples #nlpoli
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Canadian income tax law requires that all people over the age of 71 must take payments from their registered pension plan. Lorraine Michae...
03 June 2016
What's next for Nalco? #nlpoli
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Just so that everyone is clear on this, it has taken Dwight Ball every single day from May 23 until June 2 to admit that he knew Ed Martin...
02 June 2016
Priorities #nlpoli
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While everyone has been pre-occupied with Dwight Ball's psycho-drama this past couple of weeks, odds are most people missed a little bil...
01 June 2016
Anger Ball
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Premier Dwight Ball got angry on Tuesday. He's angry at the suggestion that he approved paying severance to Ed Martin. Well, reall...
31 May 2016
Martin continues to set provincial political agenda #nlpoli
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On the surface, Ed Martin's statement on Monday confirmed what we already knew. Dwight Ball knew about and approved of Ed Martin'...
30 May 2016
The Running Man #nlpoli
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With questions swirling about what Premier Dwight Ball knew about severance payments to former Nalcor boss Ed Martin and when he knew it, B...
29 May 2016
The Oracle of Brunei and The Prophet of Boswarlos #nlpoli
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You know that the local news media are hard up for stories when they post the musings about the current budget of somebody from Newfoundlan...
28 May 2016
The Oracle on the Parkway #nlpoli
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Crude oil was trading north of US$50 a barrel for about 30 seconds this week. What with the government's cash deficit being $3.0 billi...
27 May 2016
Last Rites #nlpoli
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This week Premier Dwight Ball became the punchline to a joke. Ball spent yet another day not giving straight answers to simple questions a...
26 May 2016
Alarums and Excursions #nlpoli
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Dwight Ball is hiding details of his involvement in the decision to give an enormous and unwarranted severance package paid to Ed Martin des...
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