The Sir Robert Bond Papers

Putting a freeze on any discretionary spending is the very least that the provincial government could do in light of the dramatic – but ent...

Paul Davis wasn’t around on Tuesday night to talk to reporters about the by-elections.  He had a family medical problem to deal with. So t...

“What does Paul Davis do now?”  That was the start of the conversation.  A serious question after the latest in a string of by-election lo...

In the 1980s, local entrepreneur Craig Dobbin bought a batch of helicopter service companies across Canada and merged them with his own comp...

The Crown Prosecution Service lost an application last week to overturn a decision by a Provincial Court judge. That’s not the newsworthy ...

People are looking back a century to the start of the First World War so,  on the political side, it’s interesting to take a trip back and s...

The Liberals kept poking at Premier Paul Davis in the House of Assembly on Wednesday about the European free trade deal announced last year ...

We’ve got a provincial government in Newfoundland and Labrador that has been budgeting for years to spend more than it brought in. Way bac...

A post last week offered a quick confirmation that, as finance minister Ross Wiseman said,  provincial government spending accounts for abo...

You really do have to wonder how anyone could be expected to keep things straight when the people they rely on to help them understand keep ...

Danny Williams’ hockey team tried a little marketing ploy this week.  They sent out a bulletin to news media disguised as a news release.  ...

Premier Paul Davis hasn’t delivered any speeches, issued any news releases, or done anything else to explain who he is and what he wants to ...

A couple of weeks ago, finance minister Ross Wiseman said that he can’t cut government spending because it is such an important part of the ...

Originally left as a comment on the post about Remembrance Day,  Dave sent this along as an attachment to an e-mail because it was too long ...

  Corporal Kenneth Chad O’Quinn, 2 Canadian Mechanised Brigade Group Headquarters and Signals Squadron, killed in action, 03 March 2009...

More people will pay attention to Remembrance Day this year than usually might.  The murder a few weeks ago of Corporal Nathan Cirillo, and ...

If you want to see a fine example of the political management of a potentially devastating scandal,  take a close look at how Justin Trudeau...

A couple of recent posts included the invented word “stragedy”.  As some of you figured out, it’s a deliberate combination of strategy and t...

The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) released its annual summary of health care spending health care last week. This is a p...

The Conservatives were looking to the by-election in Conception bay South to break their losing streak. As it seems now as voters in the d...