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31 January 2013
Demographics in pictures #nlpoli
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If you look at nothing else this week, take a look at a comment by Matthew Kerby called “ ’Representative’ by population in Newfoundland an...
30 January 2013
Pigs and Cows The Facts are Straight #nlpoli
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Denine to challenge Simms for mayor’s job #nlpoli
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If the word from the west holds true, Randy Simms won’t have too much time to worry about caribou and on-air meltdowns . The talk show ho...
29 January 2013
Rinse. Repeat. #nlpoli
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Not one, not two, but three provincial cabinet ministers announced a five year ban on hunting George River caribou on Monday. This is a v...
28 January 2013
The New Sexism #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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As the story goes, the crowd currently running this place were all set to issue a news release that the first woman premier in the province’...
25 January 2013
Too amazing to believe #nlpoli
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Every day in Newfoundland and Labrador, the news is like some kind of perpetual, live edition of Ripley’s Believe it or Not. Here’s a sam...
24 January 2013
Communications and Management Problems #nlpoli
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The Auditor General’s annual report on departments, agencies and Crown corporations doesn’t have any one bit that would kill any provincial...
23 January 2013
One Newsroom. Two Stories. @nlpoli
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For the English crowed in Newfoundland and Labrador, @cbcnl gave its audience one story from the Auditor General’s report. They focused on...
The Annual Mixed-Message Season #nlpoli
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Right after Ross Reid’s new job, Jerome Kennedy’s trip back to the finance ministry was the second most overblown story of the past week or...
22 January 2013
Verbiage Growth Strategy #nlpoli
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Right on cue in the controversy over the population growth “strategy ”, a provincial cabinet minister issued a news release late on Monday...
21 January 2013
Populations #nlpoli
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Ross Reid has a new job. He used to be federal fisheries minister. Since 2003 or so, Ross has been a deputy minister in the provincial...
20 January 2013
General Ignorance #nlpoli
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CBC’s Heather Barrett had a solid commentary this weekend on the recent revelations about how much young people in the province’s universi...
18 January 2013
Dunderdale hits churn record for 2012! #nlpoli
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A retroactive appointment announcement issued Thursday secured Premier Kathy Dunderdale’s record for the most changes in the senior ranks o...
The vanished Labrador fibre optic plan? #nlpoli
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A bit more digging has turned up a CBC story from December 2010 that first reported Nalcor’s plan to include fibre optic cabling with the L...
17 January 2013
Nexans to build Muskrat Falls underwater cable #nlpoli
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Nalcor has awarded a contract valued at more than $106 million to Nexans Norway AS to construct the underwater cable for the Muskrat Falls p...
We can get there from here #nlpoli
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People across the province are astounded that some students at Memorial University cannot correctly identify countries, continents, and oce...
16 January 2013
Happy Talk #nlpoli
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Cuts. Layoffs. A couple of tight years. Hard times. Premier Kathy Dunderdale, finance minister Tom Marshall, and natural resources m...
15 January 2013
No obligation to take electricity: Emera CEO #nlpoli
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From the Chronicle Herald : Emera CEO Chris Huskilson says there are several options available to Nova Scotians to meet future energy n...
The cost of not doing the math #nlpoli
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Natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy admitted over the weekend that he had not done the calculation to figure out if the equity stake ...
14 January 2013
Putting selective “facts” on the splitting table #nlpoli
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Premier Kathy Dunderdale wants to have a “conversation” about the provincial government’s financial mess and the ways we might fix it. That...
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