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16 October 2008

The Blue Shaft

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Narrow partisan considerations reared their ugly head in a meeting of the legislature's management committee. An independent study co...
15 October 2008

St. John's East: a quick look at the results

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Jack Harris was the beneficiary of a double whammy on Tuesday. First of all, Danny Williams' former law partner profited from the nea...

St. John's South-Mount Pearl: a quick look at the results

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The Family Feud had a pretty clear impact on the vote result in St. John's South-Mount Pearl. The difference between the Conservative ...

The real ABC goal

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Bond Paper's post election summary: "...the Blue Machine is a better friend than enemy, at least for other Blue people."...

The NL election summary

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1.  Since 1949, Newfoundlanders and Labradorians have typically voted in the majority anything but Conservative in federal elections.   Bigg...
14 October 2008

The greatest piece of nonsense in a generation

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Memorial University political science professor Michael Temelini likes to refer to the 2005 Atlantic Accord as an example of what can happen...

Incompetence or corruption?

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Either way, you can call it a plague. There's no other word that comes easily to mind to describe the insidious, weasel-politicking th...
13 October 2008

International roundup of financial crisis developments

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1.  The United Kingdom will loan Iceland 100 million pounds sterling to assist its Landesbanki repay British creditors of the nationalis...

The old Connies make a come back

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Hiding candidates from the media and shoving reporters who try and ask a question. Yeah, not like we haven't seen that before . Wil...

Aussie Dippers

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It may be the website for The Australian , but a Canadian IP address will turn up a Canadian ad. There's a CIBC one. And one for the...

At the last minute, Harris ducks

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In the last hours of the campaign, New Democrat candidate Jack Harris was hit with a simple, straightforward question. Rather than answer ...

The Fruitloop Factory

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There's no allowing for the myriad reason why people feel the need to make stuff up, nor that they would use this false stuff for their ...
12 October 2008

Iceland eyes IMF

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As they prepared to head to Moscow to negotiation a four billion euro bailout, Icelandic officials gave signs on Sunday the country was look...

Vote Dipper to stop the seal hunt

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Why else would IFAW care about an election race in Canada?   -srbp-

Fishing for votes

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Outgoing Connie fish minister Loyola Hearn is extending the damn fool fishery - an annual cod plunder disguised as tradition - just in tim...

Harper hides

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Okay, so the guy who will only speak to reporters in highly controlled conditions, is now canceling all media availabilities for the remain...
11 October 2008

"Confederation is in danger": Cleary

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Ryan Cleary, New Democratic Party, St. John's South-Mount Pearl, on his election blog: “Confederation is in danger,” I said. “J...

"Worse than first thought": Aussie foreign minister

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From The Australian : THE government's cabinet budget committee will meet later today to take any action deemed necessary from key ...

CTV/ATV hatchet job

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ATV and CTV are getting ripped for their hatchet job of Stephane Dion, and rightly so. Geoff Meeker's media blog at the Telegram is a...

Dear Conrad...

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Get a grip. Obama was leading McCain before the meltdown. McCain's miserable performance in the wake of the economic crisis has on...