The Sir Robert Bond Papers

One of the unreserved joys that comes from writing these scribbles is the moment when a post sparks something. Like on Monday, when a simp...

A release on Friday from Statistics Canada showed that the provincial economy shrank by almost 5% in 2012.  They even supplied a lovely cha...

One of the great things about having orders in council readily available is that people can find information. That’s exactly why the curre...

April 25 is the 218th birthday of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment . -srbp-

Ross Wiseman violated Gerry Roger’s rights as a member of the House of Assembly. He did so, by his own initial ruling, with no evidence wh...

First,  slander is something defamatory that someone says. Libel is what you call a defamatory comment that is printed.  So a poster would...

What is it about the provincial Conservatives and income tax? Kathy Dunderdale rabbited on about it last fall and again in January . La...

The Premier’s daughter tweeted this comment last Wednesday night. Few people consider the impact that political life has on the families...

As if the week hasn’t been going badly enough for her, Premier Kathy Dunderdale decided to make it all the worse on Thursday with her scrum ...

What was the tragedy of the orchestrated political lynching of an innocent member of the House of Assembly by the provincial Conservatives ...

The Conservatives in Newfoundland and Labrador are politically deaf.  They only hear themselves. Former fisheries minister Trevor Taylor u...

The provincial Conservatives could haul in up to $7.7 million through a new tax on telephones to be introduced ostensibly to pay for provin...

Cleaning out the home office has turned up a few forgotten gems. One of them related to the political impact of open line shows in the pro...

Even at the worst of their leadership feuding Jean Chretien and Paul Martin never frigged each other over the way Kathy Dunderdale and Jerom...

We already knew that the provincial cabinet had abandoned their budget before the document had been debated in the House.  That happened las...

International Association of Business Communicators (Newfoundland and Labrador) presents a professional development luncheon: According...

Provincial Conservatives in Newfoundland and Labrador have a political philosophy that is equal parts Machiavelli,  Kafka, and the Three Sto...

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Over at cbc.ca/nl, John Gushue has an excellent column on the recent prosperity , in particular the apparent contradiction between a suppose...

Only a few days ago, natural resources minister Tom Marshall was telling us that the Premier was an Iron Lady.  A compassionate one, mind y...