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18 December 2008

Haste lays waste

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When it comes to things not local, the current provincial administration has two basic modes:  pick a fight with it or, if it is the federal...

Crude breaks 40 – on the way down

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West Texas Intermediate for January settled at US$36.22 in trading in New York despite a cut in production announced by the Organization of...
17 December 2008

One down…

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One to go? So if expropriating assets - “repatriating them” in WilliamsSpeak – worked in the AbitibiBowater case, what are the odds the pr...

Déjà vue all over again

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Just when everything was settling down, the brute force expropriation of AbitibiBowater assets has stirred everything up again. Lord Haw ...

The forest for the junk

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There's something about woods work in central Newfoundland that brings a tendency in some to take junks of wood to the sides of heads. ...

Whistling past the graveyard: forestry version

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Union and town politicians in Grand Falls-Windsor appear to be under the ludicrously mistaken impression that Tuesday's expropriation by...

Brute force of law: Williams administration revokes Abitibi rights and expropriates assets

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In a move Premier Danny Williams described as unprecedented, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador introduced legislation in the Hous...
15 December 2008

"Solidarity, Reg", patronage appointment version

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Somehow this slipped your humble e-scribbler's notice. Provincial New Democratic Party leader Lorraine Michael knew back in September ...

Fowler missing in Niger

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He was deputy minister at National Defence through the Somalia debacle .  Now he's gone missing in Niger while on a diplomatic mission....

Floundering

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Question:   In what year did Earle McCurdy and the fisheries union not go to the provincial government looking for cash to bail out the fi...
14 December 2008

Local math prof stirs international economics controversy

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Odds are no one heard of Antal Fekete. The Hungarian-born emeritus professor of mathematics at Memorial University in St. John's isn&#...

Separated at birth: the tag line version

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" Never give up.  Never give in." " Never give up.  Never surrender ." -srbp-
13 December 2008

Forget TORSTAR: Latest Harper/Ignatieff poll results

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Plus other stuff of equal importance, because politics is such serious business . -srbp-

Purple Reign of Darkness

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Danny Williams receives personal files on reporters who interview him. He confirmed that fact, telling reporters the files are to help him...
11 December 2008

Fun with anagrams

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Anagrams. Take a word or words and mix up the letters to make new words or phrases. Like, say, NALCOR ENERGY, the provincial government&...

NALCO Reborn

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If nothing else, the current provincial administration is good at naming  - branding - things. Well  that is, if by "good" you m...

Facing oblivion

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From the guy the insiders picked to run the Liberal Party: I’m not looking for a road to 24 Sussex. I'm looking for a road that ta...
10 December 2008

True or false

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One of these statements is true. The other is not. The only question is which one is which. Natural resources minister Kathy Dunderdal...

And a week later everywhere else...

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IOCC ices expansion plans. December 2 at Bond Papers , thanks to Kathy Dunderdale's loose lips in the House. December 10 everywhere...

The economics of Snuffleupagus

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Funny thing how people miss stuff. Like a Bank of Montreal economist who offered this view of the provincial financial state: "...