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17 March 2006

Honouring things Irish

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On this St. Patrick's day, take some time to visit pauldaly.net . Admire the work of an expatriate Irishmen who had the good sense and g...

Paddy-whacking

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It's St. Patrick's Day. Again. The day when the popular image of a proud, noble and ancient culture is reduced to the drunken rambl...
16 March 2006

Rumpole and the Old Boy Net, Newfoundland and Labrador version

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What would Horace think? No point in being Premier if you can't put your brother and former law partners in silk. The Queen's Counse...
15 March 2006

Loyola Regan strikes again

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Federal fish minister Loyola Hearn announced today that the total allowable catch for harp seals this year will be the same as it has been f...

Ed Byrne on PetroNewf and the equity position

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Atlantic Business Magazine has a great oil and gas supplement in the current issue, including an interview with provincial natural resources...
14 March 2006

Stephen Harper au Quebec: The heart and cradle of Canada

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Policy Options also has the full text of Stephen Harper's December 19 speech in Quebec. Some excerpts: Nous ne devons jamais oublier q...

Inside the mind of Stephen Harper

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Check out the latest issue of Policy Options for a raft of good articles on the last election and other public policy stuff. Then read the ...

More seal crap

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This article from the Toronto Star is by Rebecca Aldworth, who lived in Newfoundland and now works for the HSUS. Her piece is appropriatel...
13 March 2006

Bennett off base on Fishery Products International

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Provincial Liberal leader Jim Bennett today called on the government to investigate Fishery Products International Limited (FPI) because: ...

Equalization cold war heats up

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The coming battle between the federal government and the provinces over federal transfers and the battle among the provinces over federal-pr...

Afternoon trench coat radio

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As I sit here working this afternoon, I have been growing increasingly uncomfortable as Bill Rowe, host of VOCM's afternoon call-in show...
10 March 2006

FPI, Tom Rideout and the future of the fishery

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Fishery Products International (FPI) released a statement today on its plans for operations on the Burin Peninsula. One of the points made...
09 March 2006

Exports to China?

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Some details of Fishery Products International's plans to cope with competitiveness and financial issues are leaking out and according t...

Roll up the rim in Kandahar

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Canadian soldiers will be able to get Tim Hortons in Afghanistan. National Defence and Tim's parent company announced Wednesday that th...
08 March 2006

The young Canadian soldier

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When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blo...
07 March 2006

nottawa on the Equalization thing

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Of course, I was remiss in not pointing out - until now - that ex-pat Mark Watton blogged Michael Chong's comments on Sunday, under the ...

Williams' offshore deal helped break Equalization system

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Here's a story by Rob Antle from today's Telly that is being posted here for posterity. "The equalization formula is a complete...

The numbers aren't there

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The latest Corporate Research Associates (CRA) poll puts Danny Williams well ahead of the Liberals. Progressive Conservative party support...
06 March 2006

Waiting for Hebron

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By April 1, the local oil and gas industry will know whether or not the last major discovery offshore Newfoundland and Labrador will be head...
05 March 2006

Hearn confirms custodial management dead as Connie policy

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Canadian fish minister Loyola Hearn announced Friday that Canada would be working with other states "to oversee, in co-operation with t...