The Sir Robert Bond Papers

Take a gander at Hansard for Wednesday and you’ll see an interesting series of questions put to Shawn Skinner about the settlement in the S...

Being the premier of any province is a tough job. It’s hard to appreciate just how tough the job is unless you’ve been there or have been ...

Credit where credit is due correction:  see bottom of post   Justice minister Felix Collins is creating a gigantic mess. In February, ...

This originally appeared at The Persuasion Business. Odd as it might sound, public relations professionals spend a chunk of time trying to...

Compensating a group of companies involved in the Star Lake affected by the Abitibi expropriation will wind up costing the taxpayers of this...

Add Edward Hearn, a former director of Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro to the growing list of people publicly questioning the proposed Muskr...

A new Sprung greenhouse in the wilds of Labrador Invented story:  political appointee and CBC attack government’s political opponent ...

These originally appeared in two parts on July 23 and July 24 , 2007 at The Persuasion Business. Part One You don't have to be Conr...

This post originally appeared February 27, 2008 at The Persuasion Business : Johnny Cab is a clever character in the 1990 movie Total Reca...

While it isn’t clear if the provincial status of women council started the ruckus but there’s no doubt that political appointee Linda Ross i...

According to Premier Kathy Dunderdale: Now, Mr. Speaker, we have recall power from the Upper Churchill that is now available for industria...

Factoid:   66% of adult Newfoundlanders and Labradorians lack the  numeracy skills (mathematics and logic) to function in modern society....

Former Progressive Conservative finance minister John Collins surprised a few people this past weekend by publicly criticizing the plan to ...

No, this is not an April Fool’s joke almost a week late. In answering a question on the source for government electricity price forecasts ...

Insecurity is not a good trait in leaders. Among local politicians it tends to come across with boasting or, in the more recent examples, ...

As your humble e-scribbler told you before Christmas, the provincial government plans to build the Muskrat Falls project based solely on wha...

Minutes of a September 2008 executive meeting of the provincial Progressive Conservative party show that the members voted unanimously in fa...

The provincial Conservative Party executive committee approved a motion to spend up to $180,000 of party funds on the Anything But Conservat...

Danny Williams sat in his office in the Paramount Building – converted from an old movie theatre where the roof collapsed in the 1970s – and...

People used to joke about how the provincial Conservatives under Danny Williams were a one man band. Joke no more. To coincide with the ...