The Sir Robert Bond Papers

CBC’s online story takes a weird tack on the tale of recent financial and management problems at Eastern Health, the province’s largest regi...

From the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board : The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-N...

Newly minted Premier Kathy Dunderdale from her 20 Questions interview in the Telegram, December 24, 2010 : Still, Dunderdale maintains...

Mr. Speaker, if the members opposite think that the level of scrutiny that we do over a $3 billion expenditure in health care is to take ...

As often as they say it, the facts don’t bear out the claim some politician like to make about the provincial public debt. The Premier did...

If the provincial government can actually get control on its spending and head down the road to management reform along the lines that Easte...

Basic public relations problem. Say one thing. Say another thing. A few weeks later, do something else, twice over. For starters, he...

Here’s what Premier Kathy Dunderdale said on March 6 about possible job cuts in the provincial public sector (emphasis added in all): ...

For those getting ready for this afternoon’s announcement by Eastern Health, here are some figures from Statistics Canada on employment in t...

Once upon a time,  premiers would spend time on radio talk shows every now and then taking calls from the punters. Not so since 2003 and...

A new poll by CROP (via Paul Wells ) shows that Quebeckers support having students at Quebec’s post-secondary colleges and universities pay...

About 30 years ago , Kathy Dunderdale started out her political career fighting against fisheries reform. Last December,   she scolded fis...

Premier Kathy Dunderdale should appoint municipal affairs minister Kevin “Fairity” O’Brien to handle intergovernmental affairs. While Dund...

In a scrum on Wednesday, May 23 , Premier Kathy Dunderdale said: “What we are talking about, in fact, is a two hour window here.” In t...

“In the fishery of the very near future,” SRBP wrote in February , “fishing subsidies like federal employment insurance wage subsidies,  sta...

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Arguments are so much more convincing when claims match with the evidence. Otherwise you wind up with a credibility gap .  It’s bad enough...

In an interview with CBC’s David Cochrane , federal intergovernmental affairs minister Peter Penashue called Premier Kathy Dunderdale’s bluf...

Municipal affairs minister Kevin “ Fairity ” O’Brien stood in the House of Assembly on Wednesday “to highlight the continued progress in imp...

Via Monkey Cage comes a link to a study that shows that the average speech comprehension level in the United States Congress has dropped a...