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13 December 2010
The joys of monopoly
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From Dan Leger at the Chronicle Herald comes a simple description of how taxpayers get shafted in any scheme of regulated monopolies: ...
Dunderdale confirms Bond story on Fortis and Enel
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As you read here on Friday , the provincial government is handing back property seized in December 2008 to Fortis and Enel. NTV ran the st...
How to win without news media – Part 2
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A month or so ago, some of you may have read the post called “How to win without news media” and the story of Texas governor Rick Perry and ...
12 December 2010
Crazy Crazy Train
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On the sousaphone: - srbp -
11 December 2010
Ho, ho, ho the Traffic. December 6-10
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Connie Leadership 2011 (Who’s running. Who’s not.) Williams’ disgraceful Christmas card (Tacky idea, badly photoshopped. That’s r...
10 December 2010
Conservatives to give back seized hydro assets
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Natural resources minister Shawn Skinner gave notice on Thursday of a bill that is part of the compensation for two companies caught in the ...
09 December 2010
The Bow Wow Parliament at work
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Among the important pieces of legislation introduced in the House of Assembly for the eight days of its fall sitting, an act to amend the Re...
Freedom from Information: Not exactly the news
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For starters, there is no news in telling us that the provincial Conservatives are not delivering on their promised whistleblower legislatio...
All your incoherence are belong to us
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For your amusement or amazement, here are some choice, unedited portions of a speech by Conservative member of the House of Assembly Kevin H...
NB Tories and NL politics
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Corporate Research Associates president Don Mills thinks that the Conservatives should break whatever promises and do whatever else it takes...
08 December 2010
Russell launches survey on Muskrat Falls proposal
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Now this should cause a bit of a stir in some quarters: Labrador M.P. Todd Russell today announced that he is conducting an opinion sur...
Who isn’t running in 2011?
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While lots of things can change between now and next October, here are the current members of the House of Assembly who your humble e-scribb...
07 December 2010
The Boom Gap
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The value of building permits in Newfoundland and Labrador went from $79.9 million in September to more than $188 million in October. Gre...
Have yourself a tacky little Christmas
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So far Danny Williams’ parting finger to the taxpayers of Newfoundland and Labrador is going over like a fart in church. People are shower...
Connie Leadership 2011
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Here’s your scorecard for the upcoming rumble. This should also help you cut through the noise likely to come from all sorts of sources....
06 December 2010
Williams’ disgraceful Christmas cards
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Danny Williams is sending out a batch of Christmas cards – presumably at taxpayers expense – identifying himself as the Premier of Newfoundl...
Tory support drops sharply
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Support for the province’s ruling Conservative Party dropped by about 10 percentage points in Danny Williams’ last month in office according...
The Cable Atlantic solution
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They say that you can never go home again but Danny Williams’s parting gift to the people of Newfoundland and Labrador seems to be more than...
05 December 2010
The end of history
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From the Telegram’s Saturday edition, comes a provocative idea from another opinion piece: If Churchill Falls is the alpha and omega o...
Another Muskrat Falls sceptic
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Add talk show host Randy Simms to the pile of people who now appreciate that the Lower Churchill announcement wasn’t about a deal to get the...
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