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10 June 2005
Double threat: young and smart
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Last Saturday's Telegram carried a front page story by Rob Antle on a poll conducted by Ryan Research for the provincial government bac...
Nice photoshop job, Stevie
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Even though he was actually here, seems that Stevie Harper couldn't find time in his tightly scripted appearance at the municipalities c...
Yeah. that's the ticket. Hearn and Doyle hire ex-SNL character as strategy whiz
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The budget - including the offshore money - is a government bill. The Connies are in Opposition and up until now were hell bent on killing t...
09 June 2005
The first step to expanding the EEZ
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For those who are agitating for expansion of the country's exclusive economic zone (EEZ), here's a useful story from CBC . Call it c...
08 June 2005
A hard look at CRA numbers
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Without going into too much detail, it is worth taking a closer look at the actual news release issued by Corporate Research Associates on ...
Meanwhile back on another farm...
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There's a post coming on the FPI proposal and the re-emergence of talk show gadflies swarming around this issue. While I work on it, her...
07 June 2005
Singing a new song on the offshore
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Premier Danny Williams recently delivered a message to oil companies looking at offshore Newfoundland and Labrador, telling them that he wil...
06 June 2005
Connie comm strategy: duck and cover
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For those who follow these things, take a look at this link to a Canadian journalist blog. Harper's lack of a scrum or other media avai...
Canada doesn't own the ocean - Updated
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VOCM is reporting this morning that environmental group the Sierra Club has proposed salvaging the Titan booster left over from the Big Laun...
John has a long moustache
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On beaches in northern France, 61 years ago today, hundreds of thousands of young men from the United States, Britain, France, Canada and ot...
05 June 2005
Sunday morning, 8 AM: Quality time
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It's Sunday morning and while most people aren't reading blogs today (readership drops off by about 40% whether I post or not) , I t...
03 June 2005
C*O*N agents doctored tapes: expert
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CBC is reporting that a technical expert in audio recordings has found substantive evidence that the Grewal tapes made public recently have ...
02 June 2005
Meanwhile, back on the farm...
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Joe, disguised as a door, looks on in amusement as Danny Williams puts the blocks to the Liberals by calling a quickie by-election in Exploi...
Homer Grewal
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If you listen to the handful of Grewal that have been released - handful out of the others there should be - there is another thing that lea...
01 June 2005
More than a good poll and an announcement a week
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People who look at politics from the outside often focus on the stuff that they can see. In looking at the pending changes in the provincial...
Clips the Lampoon won't show you
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Here are a few clips from the Grewal tapes that Canadian Press and the National Lampoon missed. Oddly they aren't highlighted in the ori...
Grewal transcripts wrong. Updated
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Careful listening to the audio tapes released by Gurmant Grewal today show significant errors in the transcript provided on the Connie parli...
31 May 2005
No fiscal imbalance, says AIMS head
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Here's a link to comments by Brian Crowley of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies on the so-called fiscal imbalance between the f...
30 May 2005
Hearn continues to fight his own party
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No one should ignore the fact that Loyola Hearn's plan to have the finance committee separate the offshore revenue deal from the main b...
National Conservative Lunacy
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As the House heads back after a weeklong break, everyone who thought the confidence games were over in the Commons is finding out that the C...
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