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05 August 2016
Fernando 2: Liberals start Tory-style poll goosing #nlpoli
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It's August and Corporate Research Associates is in the field. On Tuesday, Ed Joyce t old the people of Holyrood, Isles aux Morts, an...
04 August 2016
Whitbourne, schools, and democracy #nlpoli
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Parents in Whitbourne took the provincial government's English School District to court over the closure of the local school. They won...
03 August 2016
Trump and Proto-Trump and babies #nlpoli
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Speaking about his popularity and the loyalty of his supporters: "They say that I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoo...
02 August 2016
Gandhi, Mandela, and a guy in a chicken suit #nlpoli
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If the provincial New Democrats had sent a garden gnome around the province, odds are that the photos he'd have brought back would be ...
01 August 2016
CF(L)Co v. Hydro-Quebec (Court of Appeal) #nlpoli
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The full text of the Quebec Court of Appeal decision in Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation v. Hydro-Quebec: pdf Sucks to be you Upda...
Continuing continuity #nlpoli
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In the face of thousands of well-informed people telling Dwight Ball that the provincial government must change direction to survive, in the...
29 July 2016
The Unhappy Gang #nlpoli
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The provincial cabinet ended a "retreat" at The Rooms by holding a news conference on Thursday using as a backdrop posters comm...
28 July 2016
Reforming the courts #nlpoli
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The numbers in Tuesday's post showed all the time spent in the court in each seat, totalled up for the month, averaged, then divided b...
27 July 2016
The truth about Danny Williams, Hydro-Quebec, and the Lower Churchill #nlpoli
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Danny Williams promised he would never cut a deal on the Lower Churchill with Hydro-Quebec unless it included redress for the 1969 contract....
One Danny does Two Ronnies #nlpoli
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In an exclusive interview, VOCM's Fred Hutton caught up with Danny Williams to talk about Williams' latest project. The former pre...
Good-bye John #nlpoli
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In their last year in office, the provincial Conservatives went on a patronage bend on top of the patronage bender they started in 2003. Th...
26 July 2016
How many days does a Provincial Court sit? #nlpoli
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If you listen to some people, Provincial Courts in the province are seriously overloaded such that with the loss of a couple of court house...
25 July 2016
Justice and the budget #nlpoli
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The latest in a string of little budget dramas ended on Friday afternoon. A group of lawyers that included former Conservative party preside...
22 July 2016
In-house and cheap #nlpoli
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Provincial government communications consists chiefly of making up vacuous comments for ministers to recite. They are called key messages....
The future of the information commissioner #nlpoli
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Donovan Molloy will be the n ew information and privacy commissioner . He'll do a fine job, to be sure, but there is something about th...
21 July 2016
The New Approach in Uncommunication #nlpoli
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There are times when you look at a government news release and just laugh . Apparently, people who catch fish illegally are now called &qu...
No qualified candidates? What nonsense. #nlpoli
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Let's make two things clear at the outset. First, the Globe and Mail is a rag. It's reputation has more to do with snobbery than...
20 July 2016
The historic franchise decision #nlpoli
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Tuesday was one of the most important anniversaries in our political history. As labradore reminded everyone, July 19 was the 70th annive...
19 July 2016
Apologise for what? #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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The Government of Canada never operated a single residential school for aboriginal people in Newfoundland and Labrador. Not one. That...
18 July 2016
The right decision on shrimp #nlpoli
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On the surface, it looks like a classic political compromise . The federal government caved to political pressure and reallocated the shrim...
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