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11 September 2010

Traffic Drivers, Unlove Boat Edition

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Cruise ends abruptly in St. John’s Process Stories or real insiders don’t gab Cruise ship sale and passengers “not even an issue”...
10 September 2010

RBC lowers NL GDP forecast for 2010

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Highlights of the latest RBC Economics forecast for Newfoundland and Labrador in 2010: Real GDP to grow at 3.3% for the year, down fro...

Mayor dismisses impact on passengers; world cruise pax owed more than quarter million

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While obviously out-of-touch St. John’s mayor Dennis “Doc” O’Keefe can blithely dismiss the impact of a recent cruise cancellation on the pa...

Fiscal Discipline

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If you want to get a sense of where Newfoundland and Labrador fits on the spending landscape across Canada, take a gander at a comparison of...
09 September 2010

NALCOR issues update on Parsons Pond

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News release as issued: Nalcor Energy – Oil and Gas update on Parsons Pond drilling program September 9, 2010, St. John’s, NL - Nalcor...

Cruise ship sale and passengers “not even an issue”: St. John’s mayor

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According to King 5 News , Milo Myers and his wife are out at least US$12,000 for a planned cruise on the Spirit of Oceanus from St. Pier...

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...