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16 March 2011

Head-scratching and nose-pulling over latest twist in Matthews appointment debacle

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A few of the people steadfastly supporting the provincial government’s pork-barrel attempt to get Elizabeth Matthews on the offshore regulat...
15 March 2011

Where is the Hebron development application?

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Last January , the Hebron partners said they’d be submitting their development plan for Hebron to the offshore board by the end of the year....

No more give-aways indeed: Big Oil’s L’il Buddy considering cash breaks for major oil companies

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According to the cover story in the latest issue of Natural Resources magazine, the provincial government and representatives of the major ...
14 March 2011

Matthews bails on board position

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Elizabeth Matthews is bailing out of her controversial nomination to serve as vice-chair of the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore pe...

Matthews appointment to offshore board kept under wraps until leak

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Flip back to the provincial government news release archive for last December and there’s one thing you won’t see:  an announcement appoint...
13 March 2011

Toronto Sun needs oil fact checker

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Here’s the quote: So you’ve got the only oil refinery processing Newfoundland crude owned by the South Korean government, while the oth...
12 March 2011

Good Tory? End of story

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Telegram editor Russell Wangersky maps out the new normal in federal and provincial politics in a devastating column titled “ Lies, the new...

Traffic with no secret appointments (Mar 7–Mar 11)

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Dunderdale boosts Tory support from last Williams poll MOU PIFO 2 The importance of education:  education and the economy Tor...
11 March 2011

Getting more women involved in elected politics

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Take a gander at this clip from a recent edition of CTV’s Power Play with Don Martin. It features an interview with Nancy Peckford, executi...

AbitibiBowater, Democracy and the Public Interest

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There’s a new commentary from an Ottawa-based think tank on the AbitibiBowater expropriation.  The commentary is basically Brian Lee Crowley...
10 March 2011

Labrador hydro: That 70s Show reruns

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Listening to Leo Abbass on CBC radio Wednesday afternoon, you could almost imagine you were back in the 1970s.  Harry Hibbs.  Banana sea...

Personal Bankruptcies in Newfoundland and Labrador

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The following chart shows personal bankruptcies in Newfoundland and Labrador from 1991 to 2009. Data is from Statistics Canada, compiled b...
09 March 2011

The secret of life in Newfoundland and Labrador

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The secret of life and comedy is timing. In this case, the secret of life in Newfoundland and Labrador would be the curious coincidence in...

A trading nation: 2011 update

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Newfoundland and Labrador exports more to the United States than any other foreign location.  This is a point made in a 2005 post but more ...
08 March 2011

Drilling in Gulf is dangerous and unmanageable

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Marilyn Clark, a Magdalen Islander studying at Memorial University, argues that oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is unman...

The importance of education: education and the economy

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The National Post’s Kelly McParland offered a colourful chart last November comparing a number of things, including federal transfers to p...
07 March 2011

Dunderdale boosts Tory support from last Williams poll: government pollster (revised numbers) #nlpoli #cdnpoli

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Corporate Research Associates issued a correction to its latest polling numbers for Newfoundland and Labrador on Monday and the result is tr...

White Rose field may get GBS

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According to the Telegram, the White Rose partners are looking at using a concrete gravity base structure or GBS. The concrete well-head ...

Tories at 44.5%, UND at 39%: government pollster #nlpoli #cdnpoli

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Double-down Update: CRA's issued a correction that its UND category was 23% as shown in the table not 39% shown in the text.  T...

MOU PIFO 2

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For those who haven’t watched it yet, the raw video of fisheries minister Clyde Jackman’s news conference on the fisheries restructuring re...