The Sir Robert Bond Papers

Last fall, we looked at cost per vote for provincial general elections.  At the time, Election NL hadn’t released the 2011 general electio...

A few years ago, some people believed that comments left on news stories and in online discussion groups could influence public opinion. A...

Public opinion changes. Individuals don’t hold exactly the same attitudes about things throughout their entire lives. That’s true of how...

According to the Telegram editorialist argued last week, this fuss over renovations was nothing at all. At any rate, renovations planned ...

Paul Lane. Paulie. Pepsi-man. Snook-ums. You are embarrassed. Someone ratted you out and made you look like bad. You hid out for...

With a tip of the hat to Gerry Rogers and Andrew Parsons, here are some posts from the SRBP archive that all bear on the current political m...

Newfoundlanders and Labradorians got a vivid example on Thursday of the Orchestra Pit Theory of Political reporting . For those who don’t ...

If you want to see a politician under significant stress, take a look at Kathy Dunderdale talking to reporters about her party’s heavily or...

CBC’s David Cochrane contacted the public works department*  Premier’s Office and asked about rumours he’d heard of renovations to the Prem...

Seems that finance minister Jerome Kennedy isn’t the only fellow out there conducting the annual budget “consultation” farce this year. Ac...

The Atlantic Provinces Economic Council thinks the provincial government should do something about its spending, what with declining revenu...

Finance minister Jerome Kennedy took his budget “consultation” roadshow to Corner Brook the other day.  Former finance minister Tom Marshall...

The justice department is the lead department enforcing the provincial access to public information law. As such, it’s a pretty serious in...

[ Almost Immediate Update at the bottom ] Why do they do it? People keep asking why the provincial Conservatives spend so much time and ...

The provincial “mid-year” financial update included a familiar claim about the Muskrat Falls project: We estimate that the province wi...

[ Stick to your Lane Update:  See bottom] No surprise that on the day after natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy talked about looming...

Jerome Kennedy told reporters on Wednesday that  he and his officials are forecasting that the provincial government will rack up almost $4...

Before they took office in 2003 – an election year -  the province’s Conservatives pounded the incumbent Liberals for the poor quality of d...

Newfoundland Act 12 & 13 Geo. VI, c. 22 (U.K.) An Act to confirm and give effect to Terms of Union agreed between Canada and Newfoun...

Letters Patent Passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, constituting the Office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Island...