The Sir Robert Bond Papers

Saskatoon Health Region released a report on July 18 on the rates of sexually transmitted infections in the city in 2013.  A CBC report ...

Government is like a lot of things in life:  it’s about finding solutions to problems. Okay. If that upsets your cynical sensibilities, ...

If you are a Newfoundland politics junkie who hasn’t been reading Uncle Gnarley ,  then you’ve been missing out. You can fix that by readi...

If you do nothing else in the next few days,  take the time to read the decision issued Friday ( via CBC ) by a Quebec superior court judge ...

The cheque’s been cash.  There’s no more cash flowing. But the deal is not quite done, yet.

This week, Statistics Canada released their latest compilation of crime statistics based on reports by police. The figures in the release ...

In any delegated political convention, you need to elect delegates in each of the districts who will vote for your candidate at the leadersh...

There are times when a politician’s comments are so stunned they just take your breath away. The first few days of the Damn-fool Fishery ...

Tony Collins loves Muskrat Falls. He loves it so much that every now and again he takes the valuable space from his column in the weekend ...

It’s summer. We don't need to talk politics all the time. Here’s a song from the past that some people will remember.  It only did w...

On Monday,  Quebec premier Philippe Couillard left the impression that the third and fourth dams on the La Romaine river were in doubt.  C...

The Duke of Connaught,  Governor General of Canada and uncle of King George, visited St. John’s in the middle of July, 1914.  During his vis...

One of the great things about political campaigns is that the players have a chance to surprise observers. We saw that in the Liberal leader...

In September 2008 ,  four cabinet ministers went to Harbour Grace to announce that the provincial government was giving the company $8.0 mil...

After a couple of false starts over the past year,  it looks like NTV has started posting episodes of Issues and Answers online.  That’s ...

The Telegram’s Peter Jackson used the most recent JM paper on consumer electricity prices and Muskrat Falls as part of his Wednesday column...

A couple of years ago,  Liberal leader Dwight Ball said the Liberals would use earnings from Muskrat Falls to lower electricity prices for c...

Cost over-runs on Muskrat Falls as well as other costs not included in previous calculations by Nalcor will likely increase current electric...

If you are one of the political savants who thinks that dominating Twitter makes for a modern, inspired, and successful political leadership...

To understand the real Steve Kent and not the manufactured front he presents to the world these days, take a look at this 2007 post by Simon...