The Sir Robert Bond Papers

The wrong candidate the last time. The wrong candidate this time . The wrong candidate any time. -srbp-

ALCOA, the company that retained a lobbyist for two years on the Lower Churchill project, is slashing another 350,000 tonnes from its produ...

Remember the three great statements people said but no one believed? Well, add a new one to that:  the " we don't have a quorum &...

Brent crude - the benchmark for Newfoundland and Labrador's offshore light sweet - is trading at US$53.10 at 2:30 Eastern time. -srbp...

Vale Inco will build a smelter at Long Harbour, as the company announced in its October 16 capital expenditure report and as Bond Papers to...

Introduction When Brian Peckford and Clyde Wells spoke of getting the provincial government off Equalization, they understood that such a ...

St. John's deputy mayor Ron Ellsworth is showing that talk is cheap. In his case, that would be his own talk about greater openness in...

There's a fine line between an homage and a blatant rip-off of an idea. In this case, a video produced by local advertising company B...

An unconventional armistice day post. Update: Spike Milligan was arguably one of the most influential comedians of the 20th century. An ...

Robert Zoellick , head of the World Bank, is warning that the global credit crisis threatens to become a human crisis. One of the most lik...

From the New York Times , a story on the impact Iceland's economy collapse has had on ordinary Icelanders: In Kopavogur, a suburb o...

As much as Danny Williams and his team tried to bad mouth the Voisey's Bay deal, it will deliver just as it has been delivering millions...

that might possibly lead to making stuff to make cans that we can assume a can-opener to use on. Take a deep breath. We are now in a world w...

Telegram editor Russell Wangersky points out in his column this week that local political campaigns suffer from an obvious lack of new idea...

Union members at AbitibiBowater's Grand Falls Windsor paper mill rejected a company restructuring plan. The company is looking at way...

1.  Brent crude is trading at $58.67 per barrel. 2.  The Canadian dollar is worth $1.18 against the American dollar. It's easier to...

In tough economic times, migrant labourers are a clue to how bad things are getting. They are a clue. Like a canary in the coal mine or...

Public relations involves communicating with people to gain and maintain support. Communicating:  the activity of conveying information. ...

1.  A creditors' meeting today will determine if NLRC will finally fold, putting an end to the refinery project near Come By Chance. ...

Apparently, the provincial government is organizing some sort of province-wide celebration of not getting Equalization. 1. What are the od...