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16 August 2010

When it sucks to be you

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What else do you need but a website that takes trendy, hideous business jargon and translates it into plain English? You know the garbage-...

No surprise in Quebec’s position on federal cash

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No one should be surprised that the Government of Quebec is objecting to federal funding of an electricity line between Newfoundland and Lab...
15 August 2010

Williams, Dexter ink secret energy deal …but with whom?

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A service contract between a public authority and a private sector concessionaire, where the public authority pays the concessionaire to ...
14 August 2010

Fact Check: the mainstream and Williams/Quebec

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The following quotes all appeared in recent media stories about Danny Williams’s comments on energy developments and Quebec. Neither of th...

Traffic Drivers, August 9-13

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The Old Man, Old Habits and Old Chestnuts The World the Old Man Lives In NALCOR: the power of constipation Connies, pork and ...
13 August 2010

Finance department reveals low tech privacy shag up

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An unidentified employee in the finance department mailed personal information on 78 applicants to the province’s heating subsidy program to...

A campaign against typos in the Untied States

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Your humble e-scribbler* brought you links to the campaign against typos back when it happened in early 2008 all as a way of segueing into a...

Loyola new ambassador to Dublin next?

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Looks like Loyola Hearn is up for a new job. With former Prince Edward Island Tory Premier Pat Binns shifting from his comfortable digs i...

Housing starts in NL down by 28% in July

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Housing starts in the province were down 28% in July 2010, compared to July 2009 according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation . [Lin...
12 August 2010

The Old Man, Old Habits and Old Chestnuts

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labradore lays bare the foolishness that is the Old Man’s latest anti-Quebec tirade . Score one for His Premierness’s crack research a...
11 August 2010

A summer like no other: torquing in Technicolor on the cheap

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One of the great things about summer for perpetual campaigning is that cabinet ministers can spit out sheer nonsense and reporters for the l...
10 August 2010

A summer like no other: the labradore analysis

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Take a gander at this analysis at labradore of the stunning blizzard of funding announcements from a single ministry in the Williams admin...

Offshore #oilspill review gets indefinite extension

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A provincial government review of offshore oil spill response that was supposed to be done with 90 days will now have an indefinite extensio...

Disclosure and scheduling delay Vermont/Quebec hydro deal

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A 25-year power purchase agreement between Hydro Quebec and Vermont is being held up because of HQ’s concerns about disclosure of sensitive ...

Williams-era capital spending pales in historical terms

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Danny Williams is proud of how much money his administration spends, like, for instance, the amount spent on roads, bridges, schools and oth...
09 August 2010

Connies and "stimulus"

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According to the parliamentary budget officer , capital works projects funded by the federal government's stimulus program are far enoug...

AbitibiBowater creditors meeting

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10:00 AM Eastern Time, September 14, 2010 at the Hilton Montreal Bonaventure. Big ad in the business section of the Monday Globe and Mail....

NALCOR: the power of constipation

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Supposedly all we need is to know that the provincial government’s energy corporation, d.b.a. NALCOR, is “ aligned” and will take all the t...
08 August 2010

Connies, pork and electoral ridings

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On the federal level, the Globe and Mail reports that the federal Conservatives directed federal spending cash from the stimulus program he...

Telly Torques Tourism: one story, two headlines

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Submitted for your approval:  the same story with two headlines.  “Northern peninsula needs to spark interest: group” as the Telegram put...