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29 August 2014
Postmodern Jukebox: Maps
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It’s the Friday before a long weekend. Enjoy some music. And if you like Morgan James, you can find more of her work at her website: w...
28 August 2014
Shockwaves #nlpoli
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The day after the by-election in St. George’s-Stephenville East, federal New Democratic Party member of parliament Ryan Cleary showed an in...
27 August 2014
Big Dams and Empty Promises #nlpoli
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Conservative leadership candidate Steve Kent may be running in third place in the race, but the guy makes bold promises. His energy policy...
26 August 2014
Free Tampons #nlpoli
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Jessica Valenti, a columnist at the Guardian newspaper argued in her column in early August, that women should get free feminine hygiene pr...
25 August 2014
Mystery Meat #nlpoli
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The Telegram’s exceedingly generous headline said that Conservative leadership candidate Paul Davis put meat to the bones of his campaign ...
22 August 2014
Summer reading: Command and Control
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From the blurb: “Written with the vibrancy of a first-rate thriller, Command and Control interweaves the minute-by-minute story of an acc...
21 August 2014
Identity Crisis #nlpoli
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Newfoundland is changing, Michael Crummey writes in the Newfoundland nationalists’ newspaper, the Globe and Mail. House prices are climbin...
20 August 2014
Information Underload #nlpoli
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Poor Sandy Collins. The Minister (of the Moment) of Public Engagement and a gaggle of senior public servants went to meet the access to in...
19 August 2014
Conservative Misinformation and the Public Sector Debt Problem #nlpoli
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There is no limit to how selectively provincial Conservatives will read a document in order to find some microscopic filament that might pos...
18 August 2014
Politics for 200, Alex #nlpoli
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Who was the first Newfoundlander elected to the Canadian House of Commons? What party did he represent? What year was he elected? What...
15 August 2014
Politicians and Cars #nlpoli
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The Liberals are touting their latest campaign-style television spot featuring Dwight Ball talking about accountability and connecting with ...
14 August 2014
Truth and Consequences #nlpoli
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Wednesday morning started with an intriguing but hardly surprising story. CBC’s David Cochrane tweeted that sources in the John Ottenheime...
13 August 2014
Perks #nlpoli
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A story in last weekend’s Telegram documented all the perks that former Premiers get. Aside from a severance package, a couple of extra m...
12 August 2014
The Shared Delusion #nlpoli
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Tom Marshall is a typical politician. He got into politics to make things better. And, as he reaches the end of his political career, To...
11 August 2014
Oculus #nlpoli
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Justin Simms makes films. His latest project is a documentary about Danny Williams. Funded by the National Film Board, the movie, imagin...
08 August 2014
The Stark Numbers #nlpoli
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Anyone who wants to get insight into the political landscape in Newfoundland and Labrador need look no further than the Abacus poll commiss...
07 August 2014
Cost Driver #nlpoli
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Companies large and small in the province are under considerable stress as a result of Nalcor’s Muskrat Falls project. The cause? This CB...
06 August 2014
August is polling month #nlpoli
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The provincial government headquarters offices in St. John’s will be closed on Wednesday for the annual St. John’s regatta. There won’t be...
05 August 2014
Paging Dr. Freud #nlpoli
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Reluctant Premier Tom Marshall said some interesting things in what appears to be his retirement interview with the Western Star . Like ru...
04 August 2014
The 2018-2019 Offshore Review #nlpoli
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In 2003, the new Conservative administration set as its first task to renegotiate the Atlantic Accord. They hadn’t campaigned on that iss...
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