The Sir Robert Bond Papers

Thanks for the free link, Liam O'Brien . Note to Liam - 1. Relax: Everyone knows you are a Connie. You don't have to keep struggl...

In searching quickly for a picture of the Pen here in St. John's, I got this hit back from google(tm). It is a paper by eminent histori...

Further to the weekend Progressive Conservative Party convention, can anyone explain why the official party website contains only a thank...

In both his speech to the provincial Tory convention this weekend and in his guest editorial in The Independent , Danny Williams gave us a s...

I noticed it. One regular reader of these e-scribbles came to the same conclusion and flipped an e-mail over the weekend to point it out. He...

Gordon O'Connor, Connie defence critic is a former Army type. Rick Mercer rips him a new one in this post about a planned trip to enter...

One of the latest marketing phenomena is so-called viral marketing. It's based on the simple idea of having your message carried for fr...

Air Canuck will be charging for the use of pillows and blankets, according to this Reuters story . Gone are the warm blankets and fluffy pil...

CNN covered a minor flap on Thursday with allegations that American soldiers involved in a brief question and answer session with George W. ...

Yet another bizarre e-mail resulting from the posts on the Colonial Building. This one contained nothing more than a quote from Nicolo Machi...

When the Smurfs were just a sickening kiddie fad, some of us used to joke about a campaign to eradicate the pesky aquamarine creatures accom...

Anyone familiar with Black Hawk Down will recall the scene where one soldier removes some plates from his frag vest because they are too hea...

VOCM ran one of their on-line questions of the day o Thursday asking people if they felt the province's flag should be changed to the Pi...

St. John's city council calls in expert to tackle its water and sewer woes. [We wish!] "A sewer worker is like a brain surgeon. We...

A series of unusual e-mails yesterday prompted some further digging into the management plan for the Colonial Building, as discussed in Our ...

The feds are creating an office to monitor gas prices. The province's office is a mess. Simple solution: hire George Murphy . The St. J...

For those who have visited capital cities anywhere in the western world, one is struck by the lengths to which nations go to preserve the vi...

In the photo at left, thousands of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians rush to the Colonial Building to see the historic seat of government tur...

Amen, Cerberus . Being guilty of engaging in comment exchanges, I vow to stop. Period.

Joint Support Ship [Provisional drawing, copyright Department of National Defence] According to Canadian Press , two of four bidders for a c...