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30 April 2015
The little things will get you #nlpoli
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Maybe someone can point to this information somewhere please. Maybe your humble e-scribbler missed it. But in the past couple of days, t...
29 April 2015
Yes. The government has big financial problems #nlpoli
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Yet another academic paper emerged on Tuesday that pointed out that the provincial government has a big financial problem caused by followi...
28 April 2015
Contending Political Strategies #nlpoli
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Starting last Friday, the ironically-named Conservatives currently running the place started holding a series of “pre-budget” announcements....
27 April 2015
Hysteriana #nlpoli
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The response to the proposed boundaries for districts in the House of Assembly has been…what’s the word for it? … oh yes, totally off-the-w...
24 April 2015
You know things are going badly when… #nlpoli
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… you launch your election campaign at at huge fundraiser and your signature policy announcement gets slaughtered on Twitter within seconds ...
23 April 2015
Another little thing that stood out #nlpoli
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From Tuesday’s throne speech , here’s another little passage buried away, that could prove to be one of the most significant parts of any th...
22 April 2015
The little things that stand out #nlpoli
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Throne Speech 2015 was the kind of document you’d expect from a group of politicians who are out of new ideas. People are making a big de...
21 April 2015
Pre-emptive rebuttal #nlpoli
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This excerpt from Tuesday’s federal budget speech seems aimed at province's like Newfoundland and Labrador where the government promised...
The problem with no problem #nlpoli
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Dwight Ball is the latest Liberal to emerge from the candidate protection program. He popped up on NTV on Monday evening to tell us all tw...
20 April 2015
The Political Game of Stupidity #nlpoli
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Last week, the provincial Liberals came out of the candidate protection program to talk about the Dunphy shooting. Liberal justice critic ...
17 April 2015
Has anyone seen the Liberals lately? #nlpoli
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This editorial by Craig Westcott originally appeared in The Pearl newspaper and is re-produced here with permission. Two of the most ...
16 April 2015
Goldilocks and the three mayors #nlpoli
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Almost a week after we all got a peek at the new provincial electoral boundaries, things have settled down in some areas and the insanity h...
15 April 2015
Minority Report #nlpoli
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One of the police officers responsible for the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary’s Twitter presence did an interview with CBC’s Anthony Germai...
14 April 2015
Politics, the police, and tragedy #nlpoli
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Last October, Premier Paul Davis appointed Lynn Moore to his new advisory council on crime. Moore is in private practice these days but, a...
13 April 2015
Political Boundary Issues #nlpoli
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Some people thought that the electoral boundaries commission wouldn’t get its job done within 120 days. On Friday, those people found out...
10 April 2015
The week from hell #nlpoli
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You gotta feel for police chief Bill Janes and the rest of the men and women of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary. All this happened bet...
09 April 2015
The irresponsible rush to judgment #nlpoli
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For those not involved but deeply concerned about the events in Mitchell’s Brook on Easter Sunday, one of the more disturbing aspects of the...
08 April 2015
For the Quebec lovers #nlpoli
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We’ve got two recent pieces on events in Quebec. Don Macpherson explains why the student “strikes” aren’t really strikes at all. And fo...
07 April 2015
The Dunphy Shooting: serious questions #nlpoli
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Question Number 1: Who has been trying to spin the story by feeding both David Cochrane and Fred Hutton with confidential information? Th...
06 April 2015
Soothsayer #nlpoli
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Wade Locke has had a profound impact on public policy in this province like no academic since Parzival Copes . Locke has been intimately i...
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