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30 September 2015
Pride and Failure #nlpoli
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‘”Pride is a big factor” a manager at Muskrat Falls told the Telegram’s James McLeod on Monday during the latest media junket to the Big D...
29 September 2015
Rumpole and the Family Compact #nlpoli
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Sixteen of the province’s 22 full-time provincial court judges are either already in or are on their way to St. Andrews, New Brunswick. Th...
28 September 2015
White is the new black #nlpoli
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2002. Stephen Harper said that his party had a program that would help change the dependence in Atlantic Canada on government spending, a ...
25 September 2015
The N-word #nlpoli
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New Democratic Party leader Tom Mulcair likely never imagined that an insult he threw at a couple of Parti Quebecois politicians in the Queb...
24 September 2015
That's Doctor King to you #nlpoli
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Not surprisingly, Darin King has decided to leave politics after only eight years. King is just the latest in a long line of pensionable C...
23 September 2015
Crossing Topsail Road #nlpoli
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A new high school has put the better part of a thousand young people on Topsail Road opposite a raft of fast food outlets and a major mall. ...
22 September 2015
Three things about Hurricane Igor #nlpoli
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hard to believe but it has been five years since Hurricane Igor ripped through Placentia Bay and into Trinity Bay. What stands out most ab...
21 September 2015
No race in Avalon, except for the truth #nlpoli
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Tom Mulcair will not be coming back to Newfoundland and Labrador again during the current federal election. He certainly won;t be coming b...
Les vrais newfies #nlpoli
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Sometime late in the last century, Bloc NDP leader Tom Mulcair said something in the Quebec National Assembly about Newfies. Mulcair apolo...
18 September 2015
Cabinet control of Crown corporations #nlpoli
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Hearings at the pubic utilities board revealed that senior executives at Nalcor received hefty bonuses again in 2014 as they have in other. ...
17 September 2015
Political Calculations 2 #nlpoli
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The next provincial general election finishes on November 30, 2015. Not the way you are used to thinking of it, right? You think the ele...
16 September 2015
Political Calculations #nlpoli
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As you look ahead to the fall election, the bigger political addicts among you are likely trying to figure out different aspects like how th...
15 September 2015
Putting the questions about the debate #nlpoli
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The Liberals have decided to skip the provincial leaders debate sponsored by VOCM and the St. John’s Board of Trade. The reason, according...
14 September 2015
The state of federal politics in Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli
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There is a problem, apparently. A very big problem. In the current federal election, none of the federal party leaders have visited the ...
11 September 2015
Near the bottom of a very big rabbit hole #nlpoli
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Thursday was one of those days where you felt like you had dropped down the rabbit hole with Alice. Or maybe had indulged a bit too heavil...
10 September 2015
Three months later … #nlpoli
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In June, SRBP used the CRA poll from the second quarter of 2015 as the basis for a bit of “what if” thinking. Consider that the Liber...
09 September 2015
Finding the voice of the next generation #nlpoli
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“My Government will harness the desire among Newfoundlanders and Labradorians to cultivate greater cultural, financial and moral autonomy vi...
08 September 2015
Senior appointments in 2015 #nlpoli
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Orders in Council up to the end of August 2015, show that the cabinet has made on 13 appointments at the rank of deputy minister and assist...
07 September 2015
Adios to another one #nlpoli
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Clyde Jackman is the latest provincial Conservative to quit politics. That’s not surprising. He was supposed to go in 2011 but hung aroun...
04 September 2015
Timeliness #nlpoli
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The federal and provincial governments need to sort out a royalty regime for the areas of the seabed outside the 200 mile exclusive economic...
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