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29 June 2012
And he is still wrong #nlpoli
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The guy who helped create the monster called Nalcor thinks Muskrat Falls is a great idea. But Lieutenant Governor John Crosbie backs it fo...
28 June 2012
The Premier and her glass house #nlpoli
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One of Kathy Dunderdale’s more obnoxious qualities is her love of insulting other people . She couldn’t let the House close without doing...
Muskrat Falls Policy Shift: The Audio #nlpoli
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You read the post. Now listen to Tom Marshall. -srbp-
Shifting from non-renewable to renewable #nlpoli
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Scan through the official record for the House of Assembly for the spring 2012 session and you will find example after example after example...
27 June 2012
Major Policy Shift on Muskrat Falls, or Uncle Tom's Problem #nlpoli
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Finance Minister Tom Marshall called VOCM Open Line on Wednesday morning to talk about Cabot Martin and the pile of cash Tom is sitting on. ...
Garnishee Tom’s pension first #nlpoli
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Spendthrift finance minister Tom Marshall is willing to spend your money and mine to keep the Corner Brook paper mill afloat. As CBC tells u...
Not even close to a Heritage Fund #nlpoli
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A few people likely read Cabot Martin’s opinion piece in the Telegram on Muskrat Falls this past weekend and scratched their heads. Open ...
26 June 2012
Migrants and Migrant Labour #nlpoli
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Russell Wangersky devotes his Tuesday column this week to migration and labou r. He starts out with a discussion of the recent quarterly p...
The Truth Hurts #nlpoli
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For those of us who loved the West Wing , we can look forward to his latest effort, an HBO series about news media called The Newsroom . [vi...
25 June 2012
Alberta-bound #nlpoli
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This graph will likely cause some people to scratch their chins or heads. The reason is simple: it isn’t the story they’ve been told, name...
$#*! Jerome said: Hebron Benefits #nlpoli
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Hear what comfortable words Jerome! sayeth, back when he was finance minister ( December 9, 2008 ): The $4 billion six-year plan is as ...
More $#*! the Premier said: copper fastened Hebron Benefits #nlpoli
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December 16, 2009 Mr. Speaker, their ignorance of this project is staggering, and what is frightening about it is they put this out lik...
$#*! the Premier said: Hebron Benefits #nlpoli
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November 27, 2008 : One of the things that I am proudest of – I mean, the benefits that we negotiated under the Hebron agreement have n...
24 June 2012
How Irish are we: Serbian edition
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It’s the Serbian accent that really makes it. -srbp-
Caribou over Afghanistan
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Your eyes are not playing tricks on you. That’s a DHC-4 Caribou , known to Americans as a C-7, upgraded with turboprops. They are indee...
22 June 2012
444 Squadron: answers to questions #nlpoli
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As a general background on 444 Squadron at Goose Bay, here is the text of a question posed in the House of Commons by member of parliament M...
Looking beyond the Hebron sandbox #nlpoli
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ExxonMobil drew a line in the sand this morning, and the minister and I are here to draw another line in the sand, as far as this project...
21 June 2012
More to it than oil prices #nlpoli
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Politicians spent a few hours this week harrumphing about the impact falling oil prices might have on the provincial budget this year. T...
20 June 2012
Dear Jack: Turn off your frackin’ phone #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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Talk about making an arse of yourself in public. Here’s Jack Harris in the House of Commons: -srbp-
No stinkin’ knowledge required #nlpoli
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Say one thing for Kathy Dunderdale, she tells it just like it is. In response to questions about the qualifications of four people the pro...
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