Pages

▼
09 June 2010

Salma Hayek and Maria Bello freak out over snake

›
Via HuffPuff:

Live blogging the Old Man at the Chateau

›
12:58 PM (Eastern):  It’s great when you can get the mainlanders to read stuff your publicists cranked out.  No fact-checking. 1:00 PM:  T...

Vermont’s energy future found… in Quebec

›
Sometimes it takes a while for news to reach your humble e-scribbler. Still, news from this past March is topical. Seems that Vermont a...

Will anger-ball performance still work with mainland media?

›
The Old Man’s publicists decided to let the world in on his sooper sekrit speaking engagement in Ottawa with a media advisory issued at 9:0...

Air ambulance controversy - curious ATIP redaction may hold clue to full story

›
A briefing note prepared for the province’s health minister in early September 2009 may contain important clues to when a decision was taken...
08 June 2010

Enviro minister of denial

›
Charlene Johnson, by some accounts the province’s environment minister, answering a question in the House of Assembly about a potential oi...

Working mills versus a catastrophe

›
As part of its restructuring efforts, AbitibiBowater just announced the company has offloaded four mills and some other wood products plant...

There are gulfs and then there are #oilspill gulfs

›
labradore explains in graphic detail the gulf between the Old Man’s bland assurances that such things could never happen here and what an ...
07 June 2010

Harper and Williams and message control: the second parts

›
The second part of Canadian Press’ expose . And for good measure, the second part of the 2006 BP series on the local version of the same ...
06 June 2010

Harper and Williams share love of total message control

›
Steve has Message Event Proposals. Danny just controls everything. The first in a series by Canadian Press ( h/t @stphnmaher ) and a th...

Weekly Top Traffic Drivers: May 31 – June 4

›
Lower Churchill decision up in the air, indefinitely The World the Old Man Lives In Lower Churchill cost estimates skyrocket ...
05 June 2010

Famous Comments by Telegram editors

›
1892:  ‘I’m certainly not buying any argument the city will burn to the ground.” 1894:  ‘I’m certainly not buying any argument that the co...

Oil’s down, budget pucker factor up …again

›
When you project an average price of oil at US$83 and forecast a billion dollar budget shortfall on that basis, having oil at US$71-ish mus...
04 June 2010

Physician heal thyself: Dunderdale version

›
Natural resources minister Kathy Dunderdale displaying her now-usual level of unjustified arrogance: I advise the Leader of the Opposi...

The pictures tell another #oilspill story

›
Natural resources minister Kathy Dunderdale, as quoted in a recent Telegram editorial: Mr. Speaker, in terms of an oil spill offshore...
03 June 2010

Very lucky indeed

›
The Old Man Hisself , in the House of Assembly this week, speaking of the $14.7 billion Lower Churchill project , arguably one of the most e...

Enviro minister trades with the enemy

›
Sometimes it’s hard to know which is funnier:  environment minister Charlene Johnson’s repeated attempts to be arrogant and condescending ev...

Williams party support drops nine points

›
Support for the Danny Williams Conservative party dropped nine points in three months according to the latest poll results from the provinci...
02 June 2010

Lower Churchill costs: now up to $14 billion and counting

›
According to Premier Danny Williams, the Lower Churchill project – which he estimates at a cost of up to $12 billion -  is “ the lowest cost...

North Amethyst pumps first oil

›
A few things to note about the news that the White Rose extension field – called North Amethyst – pumped its first oil this week; It t...