The Sir Robert Bond Papers

Federal provincial relations Cast your mind back to the early part of 2012.  Kathy Dunderdale was frustrated .  She couldn’t figure out ho...

The end of the calendar always brings the string of Best of, Top 10, and any other kind of year in review piece.  In the conventional media ...

For your reading pleasure as we head into the last weekend of 2013 is the list of the top 13 stories at SRBP, as determined by what the read...

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Some of you may have been surprised to find out this weekend that Nalcor has a scheme to import cheap electricity into the province. A cou...

The marine rescue sub-centre story is one of those things that typifies politics in Newfoundland and Labrador. It’s entirely the creation...

Two years. That’s all it took to destroy the provincial government’s historic fisheries policy that had been built on the highly successfu...

Three deputy minister appointments announced on Tuesday brings the number of senior executive appointments in the public service to 24 in th...

Someone organized a stunt designed solely to gain publicity and no one invited the Old Mullet Hisself to huff and puff and pose for the ...

The Liberal Party executive may have screwed up by failing to put in place any campaign finance rules during the recent leadership but the c...

In a letter last May to his federal counterpart, economic development minister Keith Hutchings described minimum processing requirements as...

1.  Nova Scotian customers protected; this province not. ( Telegram , December 11, 2013) by Ron Penney and David Vardy The UARB has be...

Cost estimates for the Muskrat Falls project have apparently jumped by 16% -  $1.0 billion  - in the past year.  That’s based on information...

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There’s something perverse about the way politicians these days use a memorial to the dead of two world wars in the last century as a backdr...

When Premier Kathy Dunderdale spoke to a St. John’s Board of Trade last May ,  she claimed the federal government had tried to tie the feder...

Two news stories last week reminded us once again of the nature of federal-provincial relations for Newfoundland and Labrador over the past ...

Just for the sake of looking at some numbers, here are some statistics on university enrolment in Newfoundland and Labrador over the past de...

Premier Kathy Dunderdale doesn’t govern by polls. That’s what she told reporters – yet again – as they asked her about yet another poll th...