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Churchill Falls and Muskrat Falls - Background
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14 January 2011
Empty gestures and tells
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The fact that Kathy Dunderdale volunteered a certain comment in a scrum on Thursday tells you it was a prepared line, likely to try and cou...
13 January 2011
Cabinet Shuffle Bored
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The back room plan to slide Kathy Dunderdale into the Premier’s job isn’t going so well. The Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight is back sho...
Connie Leadership 2011: Logically challenged Conservatives
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So if the whole thing was a slam dunk because all the Tories – by their own definition – were backing Kathy Dunderdale and Brad was wasting...
12 January 2011
Connie Leadership 2011: Dunderball Run!
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How many surprising things could we find out on Wednesday in the ongoing soap opera that is the back-room deal to a leadership contest of a...
The persistence of patronage politics
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Former auditor general Elizabeth Marshall made the news this past week in her new capacity as a Conservative senator from Newfoundland and ...
11 January 2011
Connie Leadership 2011: Is anyone surprised?
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Brad Cabana’s candidacy is ruled invalid. The Telly reported based on Cabana’s Twitter feed. CBC reported based on comments by conventio...
Connie Leadership 2011: Acorns and trees
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nottawa succinctly describes the way that Danny Williams’ supporters are applying the lessons he taught them to defeat a challenger to thei...
A sweet energy deal for someone
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The following op-ed piece is from opposition leader Kelvin Parsons. It appeared in several conventional news media last weekend. A sw...
Connie Leadership 2011: Brad and circuses
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Conservative Party insiders are so desperate to block any leadership contest that they are willing to creatively reinterpret the party const...
10 January 2011
Provincial Conservative membership provisions #nlpoli
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Here’s a simple discussion of the membership definitions under the current Conservative party constitution in Newfoundland and Labrador: “...
Connie Leadership 2011: Cabana candidacy causes Connie caucus consternation
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Joe Hickey turned out to be a giant jerk-off but Brad Cabana came out of nowhere and scuttled the carefully laid plans among the province’...
Kremlinology 29: Easybake Tories
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Kremlinology has always been a series about trying to interpret signs to see if they can point out what is going on behind the scenes in pol...
09 January 2011
Connie Leadership 2011: the caucus’ worst nightmare
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Joe Hickey is considering a challenge to Kathy Dunderdale as leader of the province’s Conservatives. The Telegram reports Hickey has the ...
08 January 2011
Traffic for 5K and 50 “members”
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Connie Leadership rigged ? Undisclosed risk: financing the Lower Churchill Connie Leadership 2011: democratic deficit Conni...
07 January 2011
Connie Leadership 2011: for the sake of five large and a gang of kids
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Apparently the requirements for membership in the provincial Conservative Party pretty wide. Might be interesting to see if anyone turns u...
Undisclosed Risk: the cost of freedom is loss
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You won’t hear the provincial Conservatives talking too much about an April 2009 deal to sell surplus power from Churchill falls to Emera i...
06 January 2011
High oil prices threaten economic recovery
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Via the Globe and Mail : "Oil prices are entering a dangerous zone for the global economy," the IEA's chief economist, Fa...
Connie Leadership 2011: editorial kick-back
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From the Thursday Telegram , comes a rather nasty editorial comment on the charade that is the Conservative caucus plan to replace Danny Wi...
Connie Leadership 2011: Persistent Rumour Department
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All Christmas. Jerome! will announce he won’t be running for re-election. Sometime before the end of January, he’ll make a statement. ...
Just imagine…
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For some reason, the Conservative government of Danny Williams wanted to smash Fishery Products International and sell off the bits and pie...
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