The Sir Robert Bond Papers

The latest eruption of  the Manning political controversy volcano is evidence of many things.  Not the least is that Premier Paul Davis and ...

Shortly after she was appointed to cabinet,  Judy Manning told CBC that she was taking a significant cut in pay from her solo law practice ...

NTV commissioned NTV to poll opinion about the provincial Conservatives a month after Paul Davis took over as Premier. The party choice n...

As it becomes more clear that the two recent murders of Canadian soldiers had less to do with terrorism and more to do with people who are o...

CBC’s On Point   this weekend delivered up some all-too-familiar conversation on the budget and a political panel talking about Judy Manni...

While you are busily mulling over the possible implications the drop in oil prices might have on the provincial government’s budgets,  distr...

  We will remember them.     Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent                 Corporal Nathan Cirillo      ...

They just don’t look like recruiting ads . That’s the most striking thing about a series of television ads airing in Newfoundland and Labr...

It’s hard to imagine a more politically tone-deaf set of ads than the three currently in circulation by the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary ...

Lots of people are wondering what the changes to the price of oil will do to the provincial budget. It will have an impact:  no doubt abou...

“I didn’t see this coming,”  Memorial University economist Wade Locke told the Telegram’s James McLeod the other day. Locke was talking abo...

People interested in one of the big geological uncertainties that could affect the Muskrat Falls dam will have a chancer to hear from an int...

Premier Paul Davis changed the name of the justice department to “public safety”.  The local chapter of the Canadian Bar Association wrote ...

Charlene Johnson quit the legislature first. The chief electoral office has been plugging special ballot voting in the seat she vacated si...

Some people who read The Independent last week thought that there was a debate going on between Hans Rollmann and Drew Brown over Judy Ma...

Like clockwork, about two weeks after Danny Williams last got his mug on the news, the most thin-skinned media hound on the planet got himse...

A recent article in The Atlantic looked at the infant mortality rate in the United States and why it appears so high in comparison to the r...

Unelected cabinet minister Judy Manning was “surprised” that her personal relationship with Paul Davis’ political bagman came up in a recent...

“CHC Helicopters Canada is establishing a presence in St. John’s.” There is something about that comment from a spokesman for a company t...

The St. John’s Board of Trade is about the only business advocacy group in the world that doesn’t actually believe in free enterprise. The...