The Sir Robert Bond Papers

“The Lower Churchill hydro project has passed the environmental review process,”  CBC news tells us , and as a result the project has cleare...

For if it is to establish an order that citizens will agree to support, the state must go further than merely investigating their needs; ...

If you’ve been following the ongoing Muskrat Falls saga, you will recall that energy analyst Tom Adams raised some questions a couple of mo...

Twitter is a wonderful thing except that sometimes you can’t use the whole of a great quote. The following is a larger bit of one quote th...

Lots of people look to leaders in a crisis to see what lessons they can learn. Well, Kathy Dunderdale is special. She is an excellent  e...

From your humble e-scribbler’s e-mail this week came a copy of what is purported by an anonymous e-mail to be a sooper sekrit document. It...

On Tuesday, natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy told the House of Assembly: Essentially, what Muskrat Falls does, it allows 40 p...

…if the people are silent, you call them content;  if they protest, you say that they are given to disorder; and in the one case as in th...

Unions representing Hydro-Quebec employees are oppose to a plan to install so-called smart meters in Quebec homes.  According to the Montrea...

For those of us in Newfoundland and Labrador who  - from the outset - opposed the political style that settled on this province after 2003, ...

From the Telegram a former chief of staff in the Premier’s Office puts it as eloquently as only he could: If public discussion, questi...

Listen closely and you can hear the beep-beep-beep of the garbage truck of government comms as it backs up on the idea of laying off public ...

In defending the $140,000 –a-year patronage job she gave to former Tory candidate John Noseworthy, advanced skills minister Joan Burke told ...

CBC’s Rob Antle has updated work done over the past couple of years on government give-aways to private sector businesses in the name of ec...

Just for the heck of it, here’s the most recent CRA marketing poll adjusted to take out the misleading way CRA reports its clients poll num...

In an interview with CBC’s David Cochrane , Premier Kathy Dunderdale said that the public service has grown by more than 2,100 jobs in the p...

Seems that the goings-on in the provincial legislature are weighing heavy on many brows at the end of the first week the place is back in se...

From the offshore regulatory board: The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) announced today the details...

In a news release from the federal natural resources minister that heralded the future of Newfoundland and Labrador is energy, they didn’t ...

In some respects, it is a threat that would strike fear only into the hearts of Danny Williams’ Tories: If this problem is not resolve...