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09 May 2006

Ready for a better tomorrow

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If the past is used by politicians like Danny Williams as a demon to frighten small children and the politically naive, the future is the gr...

Going it alone...with partners

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While media reports are reflecting Danny Williams own "go-it-alone" words from today's announcement on the Lower Churchill h...
08 May 2006

Liberal caucus charts course for oblivion

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For those who may have missed the machinations within the provincial Liberal Party, Jim Bennett's idea of a two-tier minimum wage had no...

Patricia Anne Cowan, 1943 -2006

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I don't recall when I first met Pat Cowan. It was most likely April 20, 1989 at Hotel Newfoundland when she joined her fellow newly-ele...

When the world is in the crapper...

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and it looks like no one loves you except your family and the people who get paid to love you, what's a guy to do? Announce a Lower Chur...

Masters of our domain: the Danny Legacy Option wins Lower Churchill contract

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Regular readers of Bond Papers will recall that in August 2005, we predicted that Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams would ch...
05 May 2006

Williams doppleganger shows up in Corner Brook

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Some guy delivered a speech in Corner Brook today claiming he was Premier Danny Williams. Among other things, this guy said that government ...

Where is the PetroNewf bill?

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In the current sitting of the House of Assembly, Bill No. 1 is an amendment to the Hydro Corporation Act which will set up the Crown-owned ...
04 May 2006

Secret Nation was a documentary after all?

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The following originally appeared in the Montreal Gazette (Sept 26, 1993) when the local film Secret Nation hit theatre screens across the...

Houston offshore oil and gas show: No Danny. No Ed. No John either?

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From the Halifax Chronicle-Herald comes the news that no Newfoundland and Labrador government officials were present for the internatio...
03 May 2006

Mr. Fitz goes to Ottawa

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John FitzGerald will be replacing Bill Rowe as Danny Williams' personal plenipotentiary to Disneyland on the Rideau, affectionately know...

Harper's real view of the 2005 offshore deals

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From the federal budget document Restoring fiscal balance in Canada: focusing on priorities : Concerns Over Funding Arrangements Targeted t...

Williams' oil and gas corporation: institutionalizing dependence (reprint)

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The House of Assembly will soon turn to debating the only major piece of legislation on the current agenda: amendments to the Newfoundland ...
02 May 2006

Chavezism spreads: Bolivia nationalizes gas fields

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Under a May Day decree, Bolivian president Evo Morales has seized control of at least one refinery in the South American country and ordere...

High dollar affects us too

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Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is concerned that having the Canadian dollar trading at near par with the American dollar plus any measures...

The rubbish tip of history

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A self-congratulatory column in the Toronto Star this weekend by Independent editor in chief Ryan Cleary included some curious comments, a...

Fish and oil

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People are wondering if the provincial government will try and take an equity position in the fishery, in the same way they are trying to do...

Great minds think alike

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Former Mulroney chief of staff Norman Spector's column in Monday's Globe and Mail tackled the issue of the Harper administration&...

The scripted zinger for a scripted question

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It may be an overly technical point but natural resources minister Ed Byrne sounded just a little too scripted in the House of Assembly at o...
30 April 2006

John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006

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Internationally acclaimed economist John Kenneth Galbraith has died at the age of 97. The Canadian-born Galbraith received an honorary docto...