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09 September 2010

A relentless gift for unintentional self-parody: TOS

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A sitcom about nothing: "Are you Master of your Domain ?" A certain blogger: Masters of our Domain :  province lowers...

A relentless gift for unintentional self-parody II

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A well-known politician, in a recent speech: Never standing still, never going backwards and never giving ground to anyone. A well-k...

Time to retire the old schtick

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On a certain level, you can’t blame Danny Williams for saying the same stuff over and over. After all, audiences like today’s gathering at...
08 September 2010

A relentless gift for unintentional self-parody

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A well-known politician, in a recent speech: Never standing still, never going backwards and never giving ground to anyone. A well-k...

Cruise ends abruptly in St. John’s

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Passengers on a 335 day circumnavigation of the globe that began in March got a surprise on Tuesday as they arrived in St. John’s, Newfoundl...

Transparency and Accountability: speeches

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We live in a funny country. The Clerk of the Privy Council – Canada’s top federal public servant – posts copies of his speeches to the In...

The Not-So-Great Escape

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Police and news media described two men who escaped from provincial prison on Tuesday as “ violent ”  or as having convictions for offences...
07 September 2010

Who speaks for cabinet?

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Apparently, a newly elected backbench government member of the House of Assembly who also sports a new title of “Legislative Assistant”. Her...

Process Stories, or real insiders don’t gab

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A piece this week in the Hill Times this week conjures up images of a West Wing episode. The night of Jed Bartlet’s re-election, some guy t...
04 September 2010

Traffic Drivers, August 30 – September 3

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A mix of old and new and for the first time a double tie for rankings. Bury my lede at Muskrat Falls Second escape from police, ac...
03 September 2010

Baby Torque

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Perceptions can sometimes be influenced by how information is presented. Prices are an easy example.  Saying that something is $9.99 someh...
02 September 2010

Info commissioners and ombudsmen call for open government

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Information commissioners, privacy commissioners and ombudsmen from across Canada issued a call on September first for government sin the co...

Digging (up) the past

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Geologists exploring western Newfoundland have discovered a fossil belonging to an amphibian that live about 325 millions years ago. ( cbcnl...
01 September 2010

Hebron awards FEED-EPC contract

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On August 27, 2010, the consortium developing the Hebron oilfield offshore Newfoundland and Labrador awarded the project’s front-end enginee...

Throw money at it: provgov to study garbage

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Sometimes it seems as if Gus Portokalos’ brother wound up running the Newfoundland and Labrador government. While Gus wanted to put windo...

Parsons back in custody

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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested fugitive Andrew Parsons on Tuesday night. Following up on a tip and surveillance, RCMP officers...

The August Traffic round-up

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Were you one of the 12, 969 13,034 people who viewed 18,744 18,828 Bond Papers pages in August?  If not, then you missed out on these, th...
31 August 2010

Bury my lede at Muskrat Falls

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The Proponent [NALCOR Energy] has failed to justify the Project in energy and economic terms and has not provided an assessment of greenh...
30 August 2010

Corner Brook soldier dies of wounds rec’d in Afghanistan

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Corporal Brian Pinksen, 21, a soldier with Second Battalion, the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, died at a hospital in Germany today of wound...

Math problem: oil production, oil prices and oil royalties

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“Back of the envelope calculations”,  a recent Telegram story assured us all, “put royalties for the first three months of the [current] fi...