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Churchill Falls and Muskrat Falls - Background
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13 August 2013
Nalcor’s Complaints to the Regie #nlpoli
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Last week, the Quebec Superior Court dismissed a motion to hear an appeal from Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro over decisions taken by the Q...
12 August 2013
Access denied: CFLCo and Hydro-Quebec version #nlpoli
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Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation tried but failed in 2012 in an effort to see hundreds of thousands of pages of confidential Hydro-Que...
09 August 2013
Churn, churn, churn #nlpoli
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For your consideration: a conspicuously large number of changes in the senior levels of the provincial public service over the past four ye...
08 August 2013
The Poster Child for the Churn #nlpoli
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On Tuesday, Premier Kathy Dunderdale appointed Julia Mullaley to the top job in the provincial public service - Clerk of the Executive Counc...
07 August 2013
Newfoundland and the start of the Great War #nlpoli
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Next year marks the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War One. There’s no sign of any commemorations or other events to mark the...
Darkness on the Edge of Town #nlpoli
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Here’s what St. John’s mayor Dennis O’Keefe told city council on Monday, according to the Telegram on Wednesday: O’Keefe proceeded to ...
The Smartest Move She Ever Made #nlpoli
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Appointing Ross Reid as her chief of staff is probably the smartest thing Premier Kathy Dunderdale has ever done and will ever do. Reid i...
06 August 2013
The Q2 2013 Churn Appointments #nlpoli
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Cabinet made 12 appointments at the deputy minister and assistant deputy minister rank in the second quarter of the 2013 calendar year (01 ...
05 August 2013
On bigotry and prejudice #nlpoli
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The Telegram editorial last Friday offered a few comments on some recent examples of nasty words tossed at people not from one place or ano...
02 August 2013
Don’t tell the Newfoundlanders – Uncle Gnarley version #nlpoli
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If you want some really sharp insight into the latest developments in the Muskrat Falls saga, check out the Thursday post at Uncle Gnarley t...
Whatever happened to Ryan Cleary? #nlpoli
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The story is the kind of thing that used to set the arch-nationalist Ryan Cleary screaming about the ignorance of mainlanders and tearing at...
01 August 2013
Media Facilitation 101 #nlpoli
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The Thursday morning post of Liberal leadership campaign videos included a technical note that explained why the videos in it didn’t fit wi...
Liberal Leadership Videos #nlpoli
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Two Liberal leadership candidates are using youtube videos as a way of getting their message out. Paul Antle has a professionally produced...
31 July 2013
Relative Costs #nlpoli
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Leave entirely to one side the spectacle of the guy who gets paid as the consumer advocate sitting there on the CBC flailing his arms around...
30 July 2013
The Cabana Cases #nlpoli
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For those who want to read them, here are two decisions related to Brad Cabana’s recent Muskrat Falls case. The first is the decision on h...
Voids and Spatter #nlpoli
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Watch too many crime shows and after a while a few of the ideas start to sing into your skull. Take blood spatter for example. In some ki...
29 July 2013
Yakabuski nails it… again. #nlpoli
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Konrad Yakabuski warned in 2006 that Newfoundland and Labrador would probably get a huge financial shock trying to develop the Lower Churc...
More Gil Bennett nuttiness #nlpoli
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Gill Bennett is a smart guy. That’s why he is in charge of a project as large as Muskrat Falls. So when Gil Bennett says something that o...
27 July 2013
Look to Quebec courts, not prov gov for disclosure: Marshall #nlpoli
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The people of Newfoundland and Labrador won;t get information on Muskrat falls water management from the provincial government or its energy...
Dunder-Dex offside with Emera #nlpoli #nspoli #cdnpoli
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Premiers Kathy Dunderdale and Darrell Dexter may be telling everyone that the Maritime Link can;t be stopped but the private sector company ...
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