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29 May 2015

Parting Gifts #nlpoli #cdnpoli

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Peter MacKay may have quit federal politics but that didn't stop him from porking up the federally-appointed courts before he left. On...

More delays in taking out the trash #nlpoli

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On Monday ,  municipal affairs minister Keith Hutchings announced that the provincial government was setting back the clock on the provincia...
28 May 2015

Yesterday #nlpoli

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The news should have been good. Party leader Dwight Ball announced on Wednesday that the Liberals had rid themselves of the debt the part...
27 May 2015

Conservatives abandon ridiculous position on European trade… again #nlpoli

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In January , trade minister Darin King wrote a letter to his federal counterpart about the European trade deal. King said the provincial...
26 May 2015

The party is over #nlpoli

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There are times when you wonder why anyone pays attention to a crowd like the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council. They showed up in St. J...
25 May 2015

Everything will be fine. Or not. #nlpoli

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This pretty picture shows a very ugly problem. Look at the point (2008) where the red and blue lines separate.  The area in between repres...
22 May 2015

A week of truth for the Conservatives #nlpoli

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Not that we didn’t know the provincial government had already granted exemptions to its supposedly sacred minimum fish processing requiremen...
21 May 2015

TBT: a cabinet divided #nlpoli

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The latest case of the Premier and one of his ministers saying different things can’t be put down to brain farts. You also cannot dismiss ...

Oil Royalty and Oil Price Forecasts (2015) #nlpoli

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Don Mills says people in Newfoundland and Labrador have a false impression of the state of the provincial economy. Wade Locke says Mills i...
20 May 2015

Brain Farts #nlpoli

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Some people have a hard time with the idea that a great many political decisions are not the product of deep thinking, extensive research, a...
19 May 2015

Political Pandermonium #nlpoli

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You can tell the election is already going on.  You can tell because of what some of the political workers are doing. The Liberals are goi...
18 May 2015

Owing it forward #nlpoli

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The provincial government will balance its books this year by borrowing $2.1 billion. Lots of people don’t know that,  as Michael Caine wo...
15 May 2015

Never heard anyone say that before #nlpoli

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“This may be our last shot at it,” said captain of industry Paul Antle this week as he set off to find other captains of industry to help hi...
14 May 2015

And it’s only Wednesday #nlpoli

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Imagine, if you can, what it must be like to be Sandy Collins.  Sandy is a very young man who is -  right now -  living the first line of hi...
13 May 2015

A Memorial at Gallipoli #nlpoli

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The provincial government announced four years ago that a caribou memorial at Gallipoli would be part of the Honour 100 commemorations to ma...
12 May 2015

When is a cut not a cut? #nlpoli

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A couple of years ago, the province’s auditor general noted that a Crown agency responsible for developing an integrated health information...
11 May 2015

Ethnic identity economics #nlpoli

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Wade Locke and Don Mills are two of the faces most associated with the current Conservative administration in Newfoundland and Labrador, asi...
08 May 2015

Trends: corpse kicking after a lost decade of delusion #nlpoli

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Don Mills is the latest fan of the provincial Conservatives to turn on them savagely. The St. John’s Board of Trade had Don back to delive...
07 May 2015

The Fourth Party #nlpoli

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A Telegram editorial on Wednesday contained a curious comment.   The subject was news that broke this week about the provincial governme...
06 May 2015

Austerity #nlpoli

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All this talk of austerity, gutting the public service…. Then you look at the salary costs, from the provincial budget. There’s somethin...