The Sir Robert Bond Papers

In a province that is so heavily dependent on public sector spending, it’s hard to imagine anyone would think that having the government pla...

Our poverty reduction strategy has been nationally acclaimed. -  Premier Danny Williams, National Post, August 2010 * Food bank use ...

The province is different  - Ontario, this time – but the raw politics underneath a pledge to cut electricity rates for all homeowners is p...

Far from being hard done-by when it comes to federal jobs in the province, Newfoundland and Labrador is pretty much on par, according to a r...

No, it isn’t like uncommunication . The Canadian Association of Journalists has a new draft set of guidelines on correcting online informa...

This is a government that talks more and more about less and less . The latest example: a feasibility study of a single province-wi...

From the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies comes a timely rejoinder to the policy in Prince Edward Island of subsidising energy prices ...

Talking Points Memo turned 10 this weekend. Here’s the story of how it started, via The Atlantic . Here’s how it looks now and here’s ...

So get this. The provincial government in Prince Edward Island is going to borrow a bunch of money and turn it over to a private sector c...

The Daily Show gives the Los Angeles Missile story the ending it deserves. Turns out that the California missile was a passenger jet.  Th...

The Top 10 Bond posts for the week, based on pageview activity: Lower Churchill:  US and NL taxpayers may help subsidize costly big hyd...

From the Globe and Mail come some words of economic caution about the price of crude: “The energy market has been the Johnny-come-late...

Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski seems likely to be re-elected in the first victory for a write-in candidate in an American federal election si...

At the going down of the Sun and in the morning, we shall remember them.

In Kingston, a new mess at Canadian Forces Base Kingston carries the name of a man who survived internment in a Japanese prisoner of war cam...

So innovation minister Shawn Skinner will be attending Remembrance Day ceremonies at the “St. John’s National War Memorial” on Thursday. T...

Kathy Dunderdale might not be too worried about the environmental impacts of an offshore oil spill.  Charlene Johnson might have trouble f...

The video   - shot by a KCBS news helicopter - shows what seems to me a missile fired from the ocean offshore Los Angeles and heading out to...

In the United States, the National Labor Relations Board is accusing a company of illegally firing an employee over a comment she made on Fa...

Premier Danny Williams is promising a Lower Churchill deal before the end of the year and one way he could finance the project is by offlo...