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30 June 2014
Paying everyone but ourselves #nlpoli
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Nalcor boss Ed Martin told everyone in the province last week that his pet project has increased in price by almost another billion dollars ...
27 June 2014
Muskrat Falls costs break $8.0 billion #nlpoli
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$6.99 billion is the new cost estimate for the Muskrat Falls dam and the link to the island. With that much money and with such a record ...
26 June 2014
The ATIPPA Review Round-Up #nlpoli
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Tuesday’s video is available at parcnl.ca. Your humble e-scribbler is Number 2 on June 25. At the front end of the Number 1 video is ...
25 June 2014
parcnl.ca #nlpoli
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If you want your SRBP fix this Wednesday morning check out the Privacy and Access Review Committee hearings at 11:00 AM. They are streamin...
24 June 2014
Summer Political Reading List #nlpoli
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If you are looking for some political reading over the summer, here are a few books worth checking out. Tragedy in the Commons by Alison ...
23 June 2014
Grassroots #nlpoli
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You’ll likely hear a lot of talk from Conservatives over the next few weeks about their “grassroots.” Trevor Taylor, for one mentioned th...
21 June 2014
Welcome Back, Cochrane #nlpoli
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If you are needing a political fix this weekend you can get two of the better variety online. David Cochrane is back from an extended abse...
20 June 2014
Nothing was further from the truth #nlpoli
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A decade ago, the offshore regulatory board reduced its estimate of the recoverable reserves in the Terra Nova field from 405 million barre...
19 June 2014
Taking nothing out #nlpoli
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Sometimes a comment is so profoundly revealing you just can’t let it slide by. This one came from Milly Brown, the Premier’s communication...
18 June 2014
Wednesday Quickies #nlpoli
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As your humble e-scribbler spent time on Tuesday finishing off a presentation to the ATIPPA inquiry next week (11 AM, 25 June), here are a...
17 June 2014
Premier Mulligan #nlpoli
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The news on Monday was not Frank Coleman’s announcement. The news was in the reaction of provincial Conservatives to word that Coleman wou...
16 June 2014
Understanding election polls #nlpoli
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If you want to get a decent discussion of the Ontario election results and the way polling research tracked the campaign, take a look at a p...
13 June 2014
Criticism #nlpoli
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Take a gander at this letter to the editor of Overcast by someone using the name Samuel Wilkes. It’s about a problem in the arts communit...
12 June 2014
Sometimes a cigar … #nlpoli
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“Fundamentally, the [Conservative Party leadership] process works,” former Conservative cabinet minister Shawn Skinner said on CBC’s On Poi...
11 June 2014
Pollyanna Peek-a-Boo and the Economic Unboom #nlpoli
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Premier Peek-a-Boo took time out of his long, slow wander to the Premier’s Office this week to do an interview with the Grand Falls-Windsor ...
10 June 2014
“Out-sourcing” social programs and policy #nlpoli
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The incredible story from Ireland about the remains of 800 babies and children found in a discarded septic tank caused your humble e-scribbl...
09 June 2014
Air Canada to London: back again #nlpoli
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How times change. Last week, industry minister Susan Sullivan attended an announcement by Air Canada that they would be bringing back year...
06 June 2014
A farewell to Tom Marshall #nlpoli
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Tom Marshall spent his last few hours ever as a member of the House of Assembly on Thursday, as the spring session drew to a close. Tom’s ...
05 June 2014
There’s good news and there’s bad news #nlpoli
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Corporate Research Associates and the provincial Conservatives played up the change in government satisfaction in the release of CRA’s quart...
04 June 2014
And then things went horribly wronger… #nlpoli
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John Crosbie, the elder statesmen of Conservatives in the province took a shot at Danny Williams for his continued interference in the inte...
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