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30 September 2014
Errors in judgement #nlpoli
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March 13, 2014 was a Thursday. Normal cabinet day. According to Auditor General Terry Paddon’s report on the Humber Valley Paving contr...
29 September 2014
All our yesterdays #nlpoli
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Someone in Paul Davis’ campaign has a quirky sense of humour. They picked Bill Clinton’s 1992 election theme music for Davis to use as his...
26 September 2014
Premier Davis and the Dead Children #nlpoli
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Paul Davis will get a lift down to Government House this afternoon and swear the oath of office so Tom Marshall can finally get out of polit...
25 September 2014
No Privacy Protection in Marshall’s Office #nlpoli
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Someone sent a request to the Premier’s Office for access to all “Email [sic], memos, letters, notes between Elizabeth Matthews and the prem...
24 September 2014
Cabinet documents and deliberations #nlpoli
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One of the big changes Bill 29 made to the province’s access to information law was to give a list of documents that could not be released u...
23 September 2014
Needed: a local think-tank #nlpoli
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Anyone who was paying attention to these things has known for about 25 years that the province would face a demographic crunch starting ‘rou...
22 September 2014
Trouble getting SRBP? #nlpoli
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Some people have been reporting problems getting SRBP through their Internet service provider or IT support team. It isn’t clear what’s go...
Edges #nlpoli
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The Premier’s Office issued a couple of news releases last week about what someone they called the Premier-Designate would be doing. The ...
19 September 2014
Political Definitions #nlpoli
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Political conservatives like to talk about how government ought to be run like a business. They talk about it so much that it’s odd, then, ...
18 September 2014
No-brainer #nlpoli
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Perhaps it is just Danny Williams’ ingratitude that pisses people off. The multi-millionaire hockey team owner just got a massive subsidy ...
17 September 2014
No more give-aways #nlpoli
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Danny Williams is one of the richest people in Newfoundland and Labrador. He is a multi-millionaire who owns a successful hockey franchise ...
16 September 2014
The Ins and Outs of Newfoundland Politics #nlpoli
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Ralph Champneys Williams was a career British public servant who came to Newfoundland as the Governor at the tail end of one of the greatest...
15 September 2014
Insider baseball, again #nlpoli
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Paul Davis delivered one of the shortest victory speeches Saturday night of any person elected to lead a party in power. Davis said very l...
14 September 2014
Premier Paul Davis #nlpoli
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It took one more ballot than expected but Paul Davis is the new leader of the provincial Conservative Party and the Premier-designate of New...
13 September 2014
Disconnection Trending #nlpoli
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Tom Marshall got lots of coverage for his little ego-stroking farewell in the tradition of his ego-stroked predecessors. The media advisory...
12 September 2014
The Spectators and the “Me” Generation #nlpoli
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The official media advisory describes the event at Confederation Building this morning as an opportunity for Premier Tom Marshall to thank ...
11 September 2014
At last! #nlpoli
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Without a doubt, this is the most interesting, entertaining and revealing thing to come out of the Conservative leadership campaign. This...
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...
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