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14 February 2009

Not quite so way-back machine: September 2006

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Konrad Yakabuski wrote on the Romaine project in September 2006 and your humble e-scribbler linked to the story at the time and covered the...

Political Darwinism

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How appropriate in this week of celebrating the guy who pointed out natural selection to the rest of us that the federal Conservatives shoul...
13 February 2009

Nurses, government do the power dance

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First, government tried threatening the nurses with an imposed settlement and back-to-work legislation in hopes of frightening them off thei...

Experience counts: Gerry Byrne

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Humber-St. Barbe-Baie Verte member of parliament Gerry Byrne’s letter to the editor of the Western Star appeared today. In it, Byrne out...

Hydro towers in national parks: first Gros Morne, now Mealy Mountain

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The proposed Lower Churchill infeed will also involve stringing an electrode from the main transmission line into the territory of the propo...
12 February 2009

IOC expansion on hold until markets improve

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Rio Tinto Group will be cutting its capital expenditure budget from US$9.0 billion to US$4.0 billion in 2009 in an effort to deal with the g...

Freedom from Information: Nat Res Two-fer Thursday

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The province’s natural resources department had rough day Thursday when it came to answering straight questions with straight answers. As ...

Expropriation bill companies report financial results

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Two of the companies affected by the expropriation bill last December reported dramatic financial turn-arounds last year. Manulife report...

Freedom from information: no comment on process because the process exists

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On January 8, your humble e-scribbler sent an e-mail to the natural resources department seeking some clarification of issues related to the...

The notional national media

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Go to the Globe and Mail website. Try and find a story from the February 11 edition by Rheal Seguin on a supposed border flap between Que...
11 February 2009

The dark side of local media celebrity

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“The cost of celebrity” - the first of a four-parter at Geoff Meeker’s media watch blog. Thank the stars or whatever that bloggers don’t ...
10 February 2009

Trouble in Harper-ville

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Two senior advisors set to leave the Harper PMO is not a good sign for the Conservative leader. Even Don Martin is talking about it. Me...

Brain drain

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Eddy Campbell, acting president at Memorial University, is taking up the president’s job at University of New Brunswick . UNB likes his un...

Dunderdale a peace envoy to Ottawa?

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Deputy premier Kathy Dunderdale turned up in Ottawa on Monday.  As part of the usual courtesy, the Speaker of the House of Commons drew att...

Ontario Dippers made illegal donation to NL Dipper in 2003

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Unless “Ontario NDP” is someone’s really odd name, the New Democratic Party in Ontario made a donation to a Labrador New Democrat’s re-elect...
09 February 2009

Words matter: the Mike Duffy version

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What Senator Mike Duffy said right before the words for which he was rightly criticised: Honourable senators, I urge you to ignore the...

The smear of schmeergelder

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When former New Brunswick gas regulator David Nelson couldn’t impugn a think tank report that shows – as drivers know – that gas price regu...

Government to woods workers: you’re SOL

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In December, the provincial government introduced a bill to expropriate Abitibi assets in the province. The approach would work – said the...

Innu land claims vote postponed

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The Labradorian is reporting that the vote on the Innu land claims agreement originally scheduled for 31 January has been postponed indefin...

5 years and counting: still no sustainable development act

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A 2003 Provincial Conservative election promise  - to ensure that economic development and the environment were in sync  - remains unfilled ...