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31 October 2013
Liberals gain from NDP crisis. Tories no change. #nlpoli
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The headline is as dramatic as NTV could make it: Leadership crisis sends NDP tumbling to third place in NTV/MQO poll The numbers lo...
30 October 2013
Delusional Hat Trick: Lorraine, Trevor, and Ryan #nlpoli
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No sooner had Lorraine Michael pronounced the New Democratic caucus back together again than two of its members announced that they would le...
29 October 2013
Oil and Gas Update: 2013 edition #nlpoli
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First, the oil. Regular readers will recall the Article 82 issue that will affect how much money the provincial government collects from ...
28 October 2013
Opposition Syndrome #nlpoli
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Politics is often about compromise. Compromises are great when they work. They suck when they don’t. The provincial New Democrats spen...
25 October 2013
Where there’s smoke… #nlpoli
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Four members of a political caucus don’t usually demand their leader’s resignation unless they had a reason... or a bunch of reasons that bu...
24 October 2013
Socially-responsible reporting trumps irresponsible government every time #nlpoli
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For starters, the messenger the provincial government comms geniuses selected to scold CBC wasn’t their best possible choice. Well, not if...
23 October 2013
The New Undemocratic Party #nlpoli
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At the end of the first full day of the political crisis inside the New Democratic Party, the people of Newfoundland and Labrador learned mo...
22 October 2013
The Night of the Pen Knives #nlpoli
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Sometimes political party leaders get to chose how they leave the job. Other times they don’t. The Liberals punted Leo Barry out of the ...
Commentary – After the election #nlpoli nspoli
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Following is a commentary by Don Mills of Corporate Research Associates in response to the post “ CRA, Abacus, and the 2013 Nova Scotia Gene...
21 October 2013
Vale delays Long Harbour smelter… again #nlpoli
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Earlier this year, mining giant Vale was saying they’d start production at the new Long Harbour smelter in 2013 , but after a meeting with ...
18 October 2013
The Gnarley Saga #nlpoli
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In case you missed it, flip over to Des Sullivan’s blog Uncle Gnarley and look at the tale Des has put together about why Jerome Kennedy q...
17 October 2013
CRA, Abacus, and the 2013 Nova Scotia General Election #nlpoli #nspoli
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In the recent Nova Scotia General election, Corporate Research Associates and the Halifax Chronicle Herald teamed up to provide readers wit...
16 October 2013
2013 Model Show and Exhibition
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The St. John’s chapter of the International Plastic Modellers Society (IPMS) will hold an open plastic model exhibition and competition from...
15 October 2013
How not to promote immigration #nlpoli
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The provincial Conservatives currently running the place have finally discovered what pretty well everyone else in government knew 20 years ...
14 October 2013
Conservative Confusion #nlpoli
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When they were high in the polls it was because they were making the right decisions. Now that they are in the political polling basement ...
11 October 2013
So the photo ops were a deception? #nlpoli
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Reporters asked the premier on Wednesday about comments by Nova Scotia premier-elect Stephen McNeil about Muskrat Falls. Here’s what CBC ...
10 October 2013
Leading the World #nlpoli
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In your otherwise dull Thursday, take a look at an article in The Atlantic about an army of paid Internet commenters from Russia. This p...
Government Abandons Energy Plan … quietly #nlpoli
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These days, you have to hunt around the government website to find the provincial energy plan . That’s despite the claim on the website – o...
The Ode to Newfoundland #nlpoli
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09 October 2013
Self-reliance versus Dependence #nlpoli
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In both Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador, the local media will report when a town gets a new fire truck. The difference ...
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