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10 September 2014

Ragging the puck #nlpoli

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The Conservatives will have a new leader this weekend.  Tom Marshall will resign as Premier not long after and the new guy will take over....
09 September 2014

Everything has a price #nlpoli

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Danny Williams famously once said that at some point,  “ principle converts to cash.” When his old friend Tom Marshall named a court house...

A fitting reminder #nlpoli

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Tom Marshall has a few days left as premier so he figured the best thing to do would be to name the courthouse in Corner Brook after Danny W...
08 September 2014

Trash, Give-aways, and Conservative Policy #nlpoli

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Friday is trash day in the world of political communications. It’s the day when you slip out stuff that is unpleasant in the hopes people wi...
05 September 2014

They’ve got a little list #nlpoli

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Justice minister Terry French announced on Thursday that he’d be resigning in a couple of weeks time to take up a job in the private sector...
04 September 2014

Voter Choice #nlpoli

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When Kathy Dunderdale jumped or was flicked out of office in the first part of 2014,  CRA boss Don Mills issued a release covering his compa...
03 September 2014

Johnson to give colleagues the finger on Friday #nlpoli

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Finance minister Charlene Johnson will be leaving politics on Friday, September 5. Under changes that Johnson and her colleagues made to ...

Pension deal = good news #nlpoli

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Three things: 1.  The agreement to deal with the unfunded pension liability is a good thing for workers and for taxpayers.   It deals wit...
02 September 2014

Nalcor and the Eff In Way #nlpoli

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Over at Uncle Gnarley,   JM’s at it again with the first of a two-parter on Nalcor and its problems with forecasting for Muskrat Falls. Na...
01 September 2014

Family reasons #nlpoli

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The story flopped out on Friday morning,  broken by VOCM, based presumably on information that came directly from Charlene Johnson herself. ...
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...