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08 May 2011
Not a Mommy Blogger…not that there’s anything wrong with that
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A few weeks ago, your humble e-scribbler stumbled across St. John’s Toddler, an exceptionally well done local blog by Erika Pittman. Whil...
07 May 2011
Election Week Traffic, May 2011
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Big week with lots of fascinating political developments, not the least of which was finding out that Al-Qaeda would admit what the Canadian...
06 May 2011
Not keen on government subsidies
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While it may have slipped by in the election hoopla on Monday, the people who decided to vote in a CBC online poll made it pretty clear they...
Crude drops below US$100
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West Texas Intermediate crude oil for June delivery fell below US$100 in New York trading Thursday. Brent crude, the benchmark for Newfou...
05 May 2011
Shocker: local candidate not important
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Canadian voters tend not to pay much attention to the local candidate. Your humble e-scribbler made the point earlier on Thursday in a len...
Separated at Birth: two and a half men edition
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Realtor Jim Burton. Jon Cryer: - srbp -
How do they elect these candidates?
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Craig Welsh is a bastard who used be be from St. John’s. Now he lives in Iqaluit where he spent some time the other day pondering some of th...
04 May 2011
This is just the beginning
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People seem to forget that the federal New Democratic caucus was already made of people who seemed a little… what’s word… sketchy. The lat...
The Dunderdale Referendum, encore
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Pretty well every single conventional media outlet ran a story in the wake of the federal election about how the results might affect Kathy ...
Jack knows jack
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Living in the west end of St. John’s out by working dairy farms you get used to the smell of cow manure and chicken crap. Nothing however,...
St. John’s South-Mount Pearl: Vote Results Commentary
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Take a look at the vote results in St. John’s South-Mount Pearl in the last four federal general elections and you can see the dramatic swit...
03 May 2011
Why the Liberals lost…and the way ahead
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You will read plenty of commentary on this election and the overwhelming majority of it will be complete and unvarnished horseshit. Put it...
Election 2011 Witticisms
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With a Conservative majority, odds are good senate reform will move along in the near future. That could resurrect the idea of a Triple E ...
St. John’s South-Mount Pearl: some first observations #elxn41
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Jack Layton is the new member of parliament for St. John’s South-Mount Pearl. Remember those signs? It wasn’t an accident the most vis...
The Dunderdale Referendum Election #elxn41
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Premier Kathy Dunderdale and her team of provincial Conservatives decided to throw their weight behind the federal Conservatives in this ele...
02 May 2011
Dunderdale admin pours more cash into Corner Brook paper mill
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On top of the millions in subsidies it has already provided to Corner Brook Pulp and Paper (Kruger), Kathy Dunderdale’s administration ann...
Bin Laden is dead!
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From the New York Times account: In a dramatic late-night appearance in the East Room of the White House, Mr. Obama declared that “jus...
Change is in the air… or maybe not #elxn41
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In Election 2011, perhaps more so than any other recent election, people can see the shortcomings of national opinion polls. They may capt...
01 May 2011
April Showers Traffic for 2011
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A fascinating month of April for traffic at ye olde e-scribbler’s corner of cyberspace shows a wind range of stories. There’s the surprise...
30 April 2011
A little perspective, people #elxn41
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Nanos Research produces polls that are usually deadly accurate for the entire country. But… If you look at the regional breakdowns it ra...
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