The Sir Robert Bond Papers

The Alberta Conservatives are looking for a new leader. The old one quit last month amid a caucus revolt and a loss of popularity in polls. ...

How hard can it be for someone to figure out when they want to start a job? Seriously. A job you want, mind you, not one you have been f...

In a scrum with reporters after a public meeting about the Corner Brook hospital last Thursday,  Frank Coleman showed he has picked up the t...

People like things in life to fit together. When things don’t fit together, people get upset.  They get fidgety.  They try to make things ...

CBC Radio’s St. John’s Morning Show is so off-put by politicians who issue prepared statements that they’ve found a former journalist turned...

Some enterprising political science graduate student will be able to write a brilliant doctoral dissertation a few years from now on the par...

Depending on which interview you listened to on Tuesday,  Tom Marshall would be hanging around as Premier until the end of the summer. At ...

Premier-in-waiting Frank Coleman did speak to the Telegram on Monday evening about the controversy that has been raging all weekend over hi...

Premier-in-waiting Frank Coleman was off in Toronto on Monday – reputedly undergoing intensive media training -  and so he wasn’t willing to...

Public sector pensions in Newfoundland and Labrador are underfunded.  There’s not enough money in the fund account to cover all the likely m...

In the crude, modern way of putting things, shit got real for Premier-in-waiting Frank Coleman on Friday. The Telegram’s James McLeod tw...

Frank Coleman didn’t speak to reporters about the Conservative Party by-election loss in Virginia Waters. Someone wrote up a prepared stat...

Bill Barry, in the Western Star , on the Conservative leadership show he quit on Thursday: “I just chose to recognize that the leader h...

Now that Frank Coleman is the de facto leader of the provincial Conservative party, there’s no reason why Coleman can’t be in the Premier’s...

Mount Pearl is alive with rumours this week that Steve Kent is trying to cross the floor (back) to the Liberals. Kent’s open dispute with ...

The folks at Nalcor held a media briefing at 11:00 AM on Tuesday.  it was supposed to be about the release of the independent engineer’s rev...

Danny Williams said it. Tom Marshall said it. In the Virginia Waters by-election the Conservatives were trailing by 15 percentage points...

While the provincial budget for 2014 was all about spending government money, the budget speech did raise one issue that the provincial gov...

Pretty well every Conservative who is anyone in the province turned up on Wednesday night at Danny Breen’s by-election headquarters. Every...

The provincial Conservatives lost a crucial by-election in Virginia Waters on Wednesday, but not for lack of effort.  The could not possible...