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20 September 2011

Ceeb spins story for Tories #nlpoli

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Rather than correct a mistaken early report on the cost of the Liberal party’s pension proposal the CBC online decided to torque the story a...

New Poll. New Result #nlpoli

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Quick. Where’s Kathy Dunderdale today? A new poll by advertising agency M5’s opinion research firm will give you a clue. The poll replica...

The NDP and Regressive Social Policy: education #nlpoli

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those who are interested in education policy and the current election campaign will be fascinated by a chunk of one conversation that broke ...
19 September 2011

Dippers on point for first CBC political election panel #nlpoli

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Give the new Democrats’ Dale Kirby full marks for nailing natural resources minister Shawn Skinner hard over the blatant abuse of taxpayers ...

The Damn-Fool Fisheries Policy

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Yesterday’s man delivered yesterday’s ideas and claimed it was the future. Liberal leader Kevin Aylward unveiled his party’s fisheries pla...
18 September 2011

White Knuckles

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Voting is Open Now… for NL Blogger’s Choice Awards!

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If you are looking for a catalogue of local blogs there is only one place to go;  the Newfoundland and Labrador Blog Roll . It’s the well-...

Classical gas #nlpoli

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Former Conservative policy advisor Cabot Martin knows a thing or two about energy.  The guy worked in the energy department in the 1970s and...
17 September 2011

Traffic without Danny Rolls

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Danny Williams had no roll in this week’s traffic. No buns. No loaves either. But as it turns out he had a big role in the posts that ...
16 September 2011

There’s independent and then there’s Navigant #nlpoli

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Nalcor chief executive Ed Martin told a CBC audience on Thursday that the Navigant report meets the joint review panel’s requirement for a c...

The Popcorn Calculation #nlpoli

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From the Telegram’s editorial on Wednesday: The problem is that, when the proposed appointment first came to light, Premier Kathy Dun...
15 September 2011

Good to the last vote: Grit version #nlpoli

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Not to be outdone by the Dippers, the Grits and their leader Kevin Aylward will release their fisheries policy on Friday at 11:00 AM at the ...

Good to the last vote: NDP paints own caricature #nlpoli

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Your humble e-scribbler said it most recently just a few days ago : The two opposition parties are less concerned about the financial c...

Privacy commish sues Dunderdale gov over “political” e-mails on gov comps, phones #nlpoli

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The province’s access to information and privacy commissioner is taking the Dunderdale administration to court for its refusal to provide th...

There are no free lunches #nlpoli

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Heard that before, right? And it’s true. Just because it is true - and most adults know it is true – doesn’t mean that all of them still...

@cbcnl using Nalcor lobbyist as election commentator #nlpoli #cdnpoli

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  CBC Newfoundland and Labrador will be using registered Nalcor lobbyist Tim Powers as an election commentator but Powers will apparently ...
14 September 2011

The first big political story of the campaign… #nlpoli

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  And it’s got legs. The story appeared first right here on Monday morning. CBC Monday night with a blockbuster interview with ...

The Arrogance Factor #nlpoli

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Can Len Simms be far behind your humble e-scribbler asked back in June when deputy minister Ross Reid quit his job to run the Tory campaign...

The Clinton Paradigm #nlpoli

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Premier Kathy Dunderdale scrummed with reporters on Tuesday and right off the bat, CBC’s Chris O’Neill-Yates went at the Matthews fiasco. ...

Dipper candidate screwed by Tory election law mess #nlpoli

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New Democrat candidate George Murphy is being accused of breaking the province’s election finance laws Murphy’s chief financial officer s...