Pages

▼
14 June 2007

Living in a fog: one Connie offers his thoughts

›
Mainland Connies think the people of Atlantic Canada are, to quote the Wonderful Grand Band, living in a fog, living in a dreamworld. Nonse...

Wait five minutes

›
Only a couple of days after dismissing legal action against the federal government as a waste of time, Premier Danny Williams is considerin...

300 or all politics is local

›
How many times have provincial cabinet ministers or the Premier's parliamentary assistant claimed that the 2005 Equalization offsets dea...

Why cabinet avoided a public inquiry

›
When judges have real powers they can upset carefully concocted sets of excuses. Like say Chief Justice Derek Green's conclusions on the...
13 June 2007

SK court case to undermine NL and NS

›
Saskatchewan's court case over Equalization will tackle the issue of fundamental fairness in the system, according to Premier Lorne Cal...

Offal News round up

›
Some choice posts from another local blog: 1. A post on the First Law of Petropolitics, a reprint of a column from the Globe on the impli...

Andrew Coyne on the Equalization racket

›
From the National Post : It is not true, then, to say that the Accord has been violated. It is true that Mr. Harper played Atlantic Canadian...

APEC assessment of Budget 2007 and Equalization

›
From the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council: June 13, 2007 APEC releases study on the Equalization Options of Budget 2007 for the Atlantic ...

Williams big on Harper promise...in 2006

›
From the archives, a couple of stories containing Danny Williams' fulsome praise for the newly elected Harper administration. Did the Pr...

A spotter's guide to plants and other political flora

›
That would be labradore , which ha staken lately to tracking the appearances of the various planted and scripted supporters of the current ...
12 June 2007

Don't blame me!

›
I didn't vote for 'em. In fact, Bond Papers raised some fairly consistent questions about the Harperites and some of the claims on...

Public policy on the fly

›
Does anyone else wonder if Kathy Dunderdale and her colleagues are making this stuff up as they go along? One of things likely contained...

A meaningless gesture

›
And an entirely pointless debate. Under amendments to the FPI Act passed last year - in just a single day - the power to break up the once-p...

Where's John?

›
The Atlantic Accord negotiating team photo. That's the real Atlantic Accord signed in 1985. Where's John Crosbie? Draw the obvious ...

Harper team fragmenting

›
Loyola Hearn is clearly out of touch. Now on top of that ctv.ca is reporting that Jim Flaherty's infamous weekend letter was originally...
11 June 2007

Housing trends, St. John's 1992-2007

›
Courtesy of the Dominion statistician, a chart showing average house prices and new house starts in St. John's, from 1992 to 2007. Housi...

Take it to the bank!

›
Danny Williams , from 2003 : Our voice in Ottawa must be strong and passionate, however it must also be rational and levelheaded. Only then ...

Pat Carney joins the fray

›
From the Chronicle Herald , a letter from Senator Pat Carney. It seems that Bond Papers isn't the only one questioning John Crosbie'...

A dispute that divides familes

›
Gerald Keddy , Harper Conservative member of parliament, married to... Judy Streatch , one of Rodney MacDonald's cabinet ministers. Now ...

Harper to Rodney and Danny: Bite me!

›
Now this could get really interesting if the Stephen Harper administration actually refers the current Equalization spat to the courts for ...