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31 March 2014

Kremlinology 45: Optics 2 #nlpoli

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On Monday,  Danny Williams was actively campaigning with Danny Breen in Virginia Waters. Breen posted this photo to Facebook: Breen’s ...

Kremlinology 46: Verb Tense #nlpoli

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Premier-in-waiting Frank Coleman, anointed replacement for Danny Williams, turned up with CBC’s David Cochrane to explain to the On Point a...

Kremlinology 44: Optics #nlpoli

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Danny Williams appeared in Virginia Waters on Saturday  to campaign for Danny Breen, the Conservative candidate in the by-election. Breen’...
28 March 2014

The Whizzo Quality Assortment #nlpoli

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On the outside, the spring budget for 2014 looks like a delicious assortment of goodies for everyone.  You can tell it is delectable because...
27 March 2014

Talking about Change… #nlpoli

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As you recover from what is hopefully the last big storm of the 2014 winter season, cast yourself in the role of Conservative party strategi...
26 March 2014

Principle, Parliament, and Money #nlpoli

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The House of Assembly unanimously voted in favour of a bill on Tuesday that gives the government permission to spend $2.8 billion as part of...
25 March 2014

Will wonders never cease? #nlpoli

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As it turned out,  the “robust” oversight of the Muskrat Falls project that everyone was making a big deal about a few weeks ago is  - as yo...

How do they run things? Budget Lead-Up #nlpoli

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Finance minister Charlene Johnson will read the new provincial budget speech on Thursday. In keeping with the provincial Conservative trad...
24 March 2014

Setting the record straight on Meech Lake… again #nlpoli #cdnpoli

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There may be nothing new in documents from the federal cabinet in June 1990 about the failure of the Meech Lake Accord. After all, Brian Mul...
21 March 2014

Talk is cheap. #nlpoli

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It was only a matter of time before the government that says more and more about less and less figured out that its best mouthpiece was Ste...
20 March 2014

The Outsider #nlpoli

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Frank Coleman told an audience of reporters and supporters in Corner Brook on Wednesday that he was in the Conservative Party leadership ra...
19 March 2014

Hmmm. That sounds familiar… #nlpoli

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Premier Tom Marshall, in the House of Assembly , discussing what the provincial government can and cannot release: There is nothing in ...

Doing it exactly right #nlpoli

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No one could have picked a better panel of three people to review the provincial government’s access to information law than the three annou...
18 March 2014

When “different” is “the same” #nlpoli

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Only a couple of years ago, national media were writing about all the women running provincial governments across Canada. No less a pair ...
17 March 2014

The Apology Application #nlpoli

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For anyone who thinks it is unusual for the provincial Conservatives to backtrack or apologise, recall, the massive deployment of cabinet m...

D’oh! Telegram shags up Muskrat Falls access story #nlpoli

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According to a major Telegram story on Monday morning, the provincial government won’t be able to release some information about Muskrat Fa...

The Insiders #nlpoli

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The story of the 2014 provincial Conservative Party leadership contest is a study in politics on its most basic level. It is a story of th...
14 March 2014

Nalcor Oversight #nlpoli

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The provincial government will be establishing a committee of senior public servants to co-ordinate information on Muskrat Falls for cabinet...
13 March 2014

All hail the Glorious Leader Trope #nlpoli

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“ Province to deliver on promise of whistleblower law ”  read the headline for the CBC’s online story about the provincial government throne...
12 March 2014

Silence is the perfect expression of scorn #nlpoli

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by JM and EGH The BBC online news magazine carried an article on March 10 that should be of interest to all those following the Muskrat Fa...