The Sir Robert Bond Papers
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Churchill Falls and Muskrat Falls - Background
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13 August 2008
The changes at Humber Valley
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1. Layoff of 40 staff , as Newfound NV looks to stick to its core business lines. 2. A brief profile of the new boss at Newfound NV. ...
Some Harper observations
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1. Anyone else notice that the not-campaigning Stephen Harper spent all his time in Fabian Manning's Avalon riding? Seems a bit odd ...
'The national interest" and marketing imperatives: a jarring symmetry of excuses
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Submitted for your consideration: “I think the viewers should be able to understand that, in the national interest, for the perception of t...
Memorial University crisis: it just keeps getting worse
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Danny Williams, former Rhodent, should have known that academics are not ones to take his usual blather as if it were gospel. No surprise ...
Nothing says federal election, the Harper version
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When the Connie head honcho comes to town bearing public cash, you know there's an election on the horizon. Related: Clyde Jackman may...
12 August 2008
Some political creativity
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An Obama mash-up [tip of the straw sun hat to John Gushue ]: And then there's a Tony Blair one done before Blair resigned:
Bring in the Auditor General
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While the crowd at Tammany on Gower are fighting over the recent firing of an internal auditor, they are missing a fairly obvious solution ...
Come by Chance expansion in works
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It is far easier to expand an existing refinery than to try a greenfield project. That's something Bond Papers has contended since NL...
The Great Government Consumer Rip-Off
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The 2003 general election did not herald a new approach, a new era in public policy or much "new" of any other sort except elites....
11 August 2008
When the last seam is welded...
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Passing environmental approvals is one thing, but as the NLRC refinery project showed, there's a lot more to building a greenfield proje...
Oil prices continue fall
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Crude oil hit US$114 a barrel Monday on the New York Mercantile Exchange down from the record high of $147 set only a month ago. The Mond...
New headquarters and military info system for CF by 2014
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The Canadian Forces will have a new operational headquarters complete with an integrated information management system by 2014, according to...
06 August 2008
Pull the other one, the MUN version
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His latest version of events doesn't match any of the other versions, including his own earlier version. There is no effort to pull bac...
04 August 2008
Cameron Inquiry deadline extended to March 1, 2009
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The order-in-council was gazetted on July 28, 2008 with absolutely no mention from the provincial government. The commission must hand i...
Eddy shoulda bought tickets
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From the voice of the cabinet minister , last week, as the Memorial University crisis ramped up: Premier Danny Williams has not been av...
What happens after every climax?
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Quick. Without looking it up or asking your own yaks-milk-is-pink fountain of otherwise useless information: 1. Name the three astronau...
03 August 2008
Oh yeah, Pam's fried...just like a whole raft more
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Telegram editor Pam Frampton has been writing about the Memorial University thing for some time now. Her column on Sunday is not for the...
The pack politics of ambition
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Politics is a strange thing. There's a lot of individualism and ego but at the same time there's some really obvious group behavio...
02 August 2008
The market for oil and gas support industries
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The real key to long-term economic benefit from oil and gas is not in revenues flowing to a state-owned oil company, but from the developmen...
The best and the worst
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From the Star Phoenix (Saskatoon), a perspective on the province and its politics: It did not present a very becoming picture of the p...
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