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06 September 2005

A Telly twosome for Tuesday

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Check the online Telegram today which is actually carrying two really worthwhile stories. (They carry lots, but not all are online.) First i...

Ward 4 sign wars

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Courtesy of Greg Locke comes this picture of one of several Kevin Breen signs that have been altered by an unidentified gagster. Breen is th...

Nawlins - a minor correction, planning failures, and other news

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The Washington Post issued a correction in its story over the weekend that stated Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco had not declared a st...
05 September 2005

Prayer no substitute for preparation: province lacks emergency plan

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Almost four years after the September 11 incident and despite examples of natural disasters in this province and neighbouring provinces over...

The struggle for control in Louisiana

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Anyone following media coverage of rescue and relief operations in New Orleans will notice the ferocity of complaints by municipal and state...
04 September 2005

Typhoons hit Gander

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Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoons made a stopover in Gander this past week and were captured on these digital images by local lawyer an...
02 September 2005

So much for rumours

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Rumours are usually nonsense and so it turned out this week that a couple of chatter-bits posted to the Bond Papers were...well...WRONG. The...

What drops from the back end of a male bovine?

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I don't know about the rest of my public relations colleagues, but people I know call a story like this BULLSHIT. Who gives a rats backs...

The best man for the job

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"Both the premier and I continue to believe that Andy Wells is the ideal candidate [to be chief executive officer of the Canada-Newfoun...

Hatching, matching and dispatching Mary Walsh

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This Macleans piece on Mary Walsh's little sitcom includes a quote from your humble e-scribe. The best part of the print version are p...

John Crosbie - Liberal sleeper

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John Crosbie, your long sojourn away from the Liberal Party will soon be over. Keep up the excellent work. You have managed to work for deca...

Efford staying - colour me surprised

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This release from John Efford was issued on September 1, 2005 at approximately 6:30 pm, Newfoundland Daylight Savings Time. Colour me surpr...

Fire the petroleum farce staff

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Some consumers in the province awoke this morning to the shock of an increase in gas prices of around 20 cents per litre. Those of us paying...

Parsons compensation increased

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This release yesterday from the provincial government announces an increase in compensation to Gregory Parsons. Mr. Parsons was wrongly c...
01 September 2005

The New Approach to hand-outs and whining

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Doubts about Loyola Sullivan's ability to grasp the picture beyond moving around digits on a page grows with this release on the feder...

Crap Talk dead?

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It may only be a rumour but there is talk around St. John's that Bill Rowe's Back Talk afternoon call-in show on VOCM will be dead i...
31 August 2005

Connie TV ads miss the mark

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When you take a look at the August flight of Conservative Party television spots , you can see the handiwork of someone who thinks that the ...
30 August 2005

Loyola and "sound fiscal management" - oxymoron [Revised]

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Loyola Sullivan turned himself in knots these past few days trying to explain why the province won't be offering any systematic help to ...

Premier makes local oil patch sweaty - but not in a good way

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The local oil patch grows increasingly nervous with the bellicose rhetoric from Premier Danny Williams about Hebron development and any fut...

B-17 and P-38 to visit province [UPDATE]

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You don't have to be an airplane buff to be excited - I mean really excited - that a fully restored B-17G "Liberty Belle", and...