The Sir Robert Bond Papers
The real political division in society is between authoritarians and libertarians.
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Churchill Falls and Muskrat Falls - Background
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19 August 2009
The whole story sometimes hurts
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Cleary. Ryan Cleary. Wannabe (N)DP candidate Double Naught 1.5 License to shill. Wasting no time in turning his attention to his la...
18 August 2009
Great Gambols with Public Money: The Stunnel
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Normally, governments in Newfoundland and Labrador don't turn to the freakishly large, insane, totally whacked out, over-the-top, no-evi...
Great Gambols with Public Money: Sprung Cukes 3 – ministerial statement version
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Things got pretty bad when the Greenhouse was accused of dumping cukes on the Maritime market. The following is the ext of a statement by P...
Great Moments in Political Philosophy
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“…the whole reason we have elected officials is so we don't have to think all the time.” Homer J. Simpson -srbp-
17 August 2009
Freedom from information: a symptom of ponocchiosis
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That would be an inability to recognise realise that what one is saying is humourous because it contradicts the claim: Oram said verba...
Women in Arms
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From New York Times two videos on the experience of women serving in the American military side by side with men. The attitude toward ...
Route around park shorter
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Contrary to claims by project supporters going around the province’s second UNESCO World Heritage site at Gros Morne would produce a shorter...
Towns left off branch lines, no plan from gov’t to help
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Apparently, there are many towns in Newfoundland that will not be receiving high speed internet service . This despite a $10 million plus ...
16 August 2009
Dipper doodles: NL First meets the (N)DP
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Scanning the list of resolution at this weekend’s (N)DP convention – the “New” is optional - someone from Newfoundland and Labrador might ...
Great Gambols with Public Money: Sprung Cukes 2
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Another view of the Peckford Pickle Palace , this time with some questions which proved to be prophetic. Don't forget that at the time...
15 August 2009
A mid-summer night’s gambol
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“Love”, as Shakespeare put it, “looks not with the eyes, but with the mind and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” Of all the politi...
Missing in Action: the 2006 economic policy review
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In 2006, Danny Williams decided he needed to take a second look at the economic development plans he was following. "Over the pas...
Great Gambols with Public Money: Sprung Cukes
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Ah, how quickly they forget, these pleasant but heavily indebted, taxpaying people of Newfoundland and the sorry experience of governments t...
14 August 2009
Invent a weasel word…
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The New York Times’ Ben Schott challenges readers to have some fun and invent new words or phrases that have an obscured or no meaning t...
The reality of government polls
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Governments look on polls and the associated poll goosing as a means of shaping public opinion, not measuring it.
Pee in the shower
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See? Told it was a good idea. From Brazil, a cute 45 second spot that shows peeing in the shower saves water in the long run.
The Leprechaun Play
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Oil is there on the island’s west coast but why is it that the provincial government has to exploit the potential for oil instead of a loc...
13 August 2009
Company behind Fermeuse wind power project seeks bankruptcy protection
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Skypower Corp, the company behind a wind power demonstration project at Fermeuse, Newfoundland filed for bankruptcy protection on August...
Wolfe Island Wind Farm Project
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Canadian Hydro Developers Inc operates a 197.8 megawatt wind farm project on Wolfe Island, near Kingston Ontario. CHD installed the 86 tu...
12 August 2009
Oh yeah… it’s polling season
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The Premier might have been otherwise engaged for the Council of the Federation meeting last week discussing trivial things like the recessi...
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