The Sir Robert Bond Papers

There are times when you have to wonder if provincial cabinet ministers actually realise how moronic they sound to everyone else. David Br...

NDP leader Earle McCurdy called the province’s major open line show on Thursday and by the sounds of things he hasn’t backed off the positio...

“All options are going to have to be considered I guess, from both the revenue and the expenditure side, to make the best of a challenging s...

There’s something a bit surreal about the news this week. Well, not really the news itself, so much as the way people are reacting to it. ...

Does anyone really take Wade Locke seriously anymore? Really? Do they? Seriously. Go back to last October to see why. The next t...

Most of you have probably never heard of a fellow named Alonzo John  Gallishaw.  John Gallishaw is best remembered in his native land for ...

A couple of years after his war with one prime minister, Danny Williams was locked in another war with another federal first minister. Wil...

The story of the 2004 war with Ottawa is the story of disconnects,  mismatches, incongruities, of things that just didn't add up. Octo...

On June 4, 2004, Danny Williams delivered a keynote speech to delegates at the oil and gas conference organized annual by the association th...

New Democratic party candidate Linda McQuaig caused a bit of a stir in the first week of the federal election campaign when she said that in...

The 2004 “war” with Ottawa over a version of federal Equalization payments to Newfoundland and Labrador is an early episode in the provincia...

Labrador economy must diversify to survive, say opposition parties. There is a CBC headline to conjure with. Pure political magic for t...

The Telegram has been running a series this week on the number of communities in the province where people can’t drink the water supplied b...

Not so very long ago,  provincial Conservatives were crowing about how they would be running all sorts of mining projects in Labrador using ...

Historian Ray Blake’s new book  Lions or jellyfish:  Newfoundland  - Ottawa relations since 1957 is likely to be be on many reading lists. ...

Cast your mind back to April 2007 In his ongoing penchant for fighting with everyone and for small-mindedness,  Newfoundland and Labrador ...

The first English debate is over. Here are some quick observations to help you cut through the huge amount of noise coming from the conven...

Pierre Karl Peladeau won’t say yes or no to development of Old Harry, according to ledevoir.com . Le Devoir interviewed the Parti Quebeco...

Updated   If you want to get a really good summary of the contending election strategies at this early stage of the federal campaign, re...

It’s one of those persistent comments. You don’t hear it or see it every day but, once in a while it comes back. Like in 2013 .  Some g...