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31 January 2014

Chill up spine time #nlpoli

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Two separate e-mails plunked the same article in the SRBP inbox on Friday. Both highlighted the same quote from this National Post story ...

Doing it right #nlpoli

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Premier Tom Marshall confirmed on Thursday that the provincial government will be doing the review of the provincial information and privac...
30 January 2014

Competition #nlpoli

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When they got up on Wednesday morning, everyone in the province who was paying attention knew that Bill Barry was going to launch his bid f...
29 January 2014

The Hobby Garden of Meh, Whatever #nlpoli

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What’s so striking about the race to replace Kathy Dunderdale as leader of the provincial Conservative Party is how spectacularly unspectacu...
28 January 2014

The Jim Bennett Effect #nlpoli

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Having tried to slide by without renewing their party,  the provincial Conservatives are now talking up the joys of change. They’ve talked...
27 January 2014

Forget the rinse. Just repeat. #nlpoli

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The same people saying and doing the same things as they have always done won’t change anything A provincial Conservative started out the ...
24 January 2014

So when’s the next election? #nlpoli

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Since Kathy quit and Tom Marshall taking over on Friday morning, people are wondering when we will go to the polls. There’s talk about a s...
23 January 2014

Other people’s agendas #nlpoli

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If you have not read Kathy Dunderdale’s resignation speech , take a moment and do so now. What is most striking about the speech is that t...
22 January 2014

The Second Longest Slow Good-bye #nlpoli

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Provincial Conservatives will get together on Wednesday morning and eventually admit the worst kept secret in local political circles:  the ...

Shifts and Changes #nlpoli

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Kathy is going. Tom Marshall gets to quit politics as interim Premier. That’s if the reports on Tuesday night hold through Wednesday mor...
21 January 2014

Minister Lane #nlpoli

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In all the political chatter on Monday,  no idea got a stronger negative reaction than the one from your humble e-scribbler that Paul Lane h...

Paul Lane: 2, Dwight Ball: 0 #nlpoli

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Paul Lane scored big on Monday. First, he secured his nomination and his seat in the next provincial election by running as a Liberal.  A...
20 January 2014

Terry Paddon’s Report #nlpoli

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If you want to understand what the provincial government’s audited financial statements really mean, you will have to skip Tom Marshall’s c...
17 January 2014

The Consumer Economy #nlpoli

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It’s the sort of thing that leaps out at you.  As SRBP mentioned on Thursday, in her book Shopping for votes veteran political reporter ...
16 January 2014

The Vibrant Unsustainable Super Energy Debt Warehouse #nlpoli

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The Conservatives used to say that Newfoundland and Labrador was eastern North America’s energy warehouse.  Once Danny Williams ran for the ...
15 January 2014

The 2012 Public Accounts #nlpoli

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There is always something interesting in the province’s audited financial statements and – sadly – it is often at odds with what the politic...
14 January 2014

If Nalcor got the peak load wrong #nlpoli

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The rolling blackouts on the island of Newfoundland could warn of bigger problems to come, if a new paper by the analyst JM is correct. Un...
13 January 2014

The Third Line #nlpoli

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Most people in Newfoundland and Labrador never think about the electricity into their homes.  They don’t know where it comes from and they c...
10 January 2014

“Independent” Review #darknl #nlpoli

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The Confidence Campaign #nlpoli #darknl

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The provincial government started its campaign to gain control of the political agenda on Thursday with its announcement that it would appoi...