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31 December 2012

The Perpetual Talking Point Disaster #nlpoli

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Premier Kathy Dunderdale’s year-end talking points for 2012 were pretty grim.  As she told CBC’s David Cochrane , the provincial governmen...

Talking Point Politics #nlpoli

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The Telegram’s Saturday front page story on Tory efforts to manipulate online polls and comments garnered two equal and opposite reactions...
28 December 2012

Creating a Baby Boom. Not. #nlpoli

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Flip over to the Occupy NL blog and you’ll see a critique of some recent SRBP posts on the provincial government’s bonus cash for live babi...
27 December 2012

Middle Earth Safety Briefing

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Air New Zealand capitalizes on Peter Jackson and his love of Tolkien: -srbp-

Attitudes to Guns #nlpoli

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Her pistol is concealable with any outfit choice. -srbp-

Top 10 Posts for 2012 #2012

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Here they are, folks, the 10 most-read posts of 2012 at SRBP. When will she quit?   Now that Muskrat Falls is sanctioned, how long will...
26 December 2012

Mars Attacks!

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Add this one to the New Year’s wish list:  coming in 2013 from Moebius . -srbp-
24 December 2012

Fertility Rates: a different perspective #nlpoli

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Via Occupy Newfoundland and Labrador ,  a different take on the success of the bootie call from the one presented in this corner recently. ...

If you’re serious about ideas… #nlpoli

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then get serious about blogging. From the Harvard Business Review : Writing is still the clearest and most definitive medium for dem...

Not with a bang, but a whimper #nlpoli

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The longest filibuster in Newfoundland and Labrador legislative history ended quietly Saturday morning. This was the second filibuster thi...
21 December 2012

JM 6 - Two Variants of the Interconnected Option

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Volume 6 - 2 Variants -srbp-

The Teens and 40s #nlpoli

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As the last instalment in our survey of birth rates, let’s take a look at the group 15 to 19 and the other end of the scale for statistics, ...
20 December 2012

The West Wing: the Stackhouse Filibuster #nlpoli

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The Dam Filibuster - Mr. Smith goes to Washington #nlpoli

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The 30-Something Birth Rates #nlpoli

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[ Note: This is a revised version of the original post.  The earlier one  was based on the wrong tables] The 2007 provincial government b...

The 20-Something Birth Rates #nlpoli

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As we told you a couple of weeks ago , it doesn’t look like the provincial government’s policy of paying cash for live births produced any i...
19 December 2012

Your future is in their hands: Filibuster edition #nlpoli #scoutsdishonour

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Government House Leader @King_Darin  doesn't think the standard of debate during the current filibuster over the Muskrat Falls bills com...

JM 7 - Bill 61: a relapse of the free market society #nlpoli

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Bill 61 Relapse

Perspective #nlpoli

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Premier Kathy Dunderdale likes to pretend that the critics haven’t been able to find a problem with Muskrat Falls. Well, that’s simply not...
18 December 2012

A closed market #nlpoli

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The provincial Conservatives will guarantee that taxpayers in Newfoundland and Labrador will be forced to pay for Muskrat Falls no matter wh...