The Sir Robert Bond Papers

This is the year of the youtube election. Some of them, like Alison Coffin’s recession pitch or Dan Crummell’s “ I live in the district ”...

The Telegram did voters a valuable service the last weekend of the campaign by printing responses from candidates in metro districts to two...

If you want to know why Forum Research’s poll is out of line with the other polls done on the provincial election, you need look no further ...

Residents of Newfoundland and Labrador awoke Thursday to a massive sucking noise as amateur pundits, media commentators, and newsrooms acros...

The provincial election campaign a decidedly nastier turn on Monday. Conservative leader Paul Davis is trying his best to save the party’s f...

  “It was a previous Liberal government that wanted to actually privatize Hydro. This particular government wants to strengthen Hydro, wan...

Corporate Research Associates’ latest poll is in line with polls by MQO and Abacus. The table below shows CRA’s quarterly poll results si...

The mighty Muskrat Falls turned up a few times in the leaders’ debate on Monday night. Now that the project’s huge problems are plainer,  ...

The only winner in the debate was David Cochrane.  He’s no Paul Wells but he did a fine job of wrangling the three leaders. And that’s t...

Muskrat Falls has been the big issue in two successive elections. In 2011, the parties wanted to talk about the project, while voters didn...

The only people who think this is a dull election don’t know anything about politics. Seriously. On the day before nominations closed fo...

The province’s major media outlets have taken different approaches to political coverage in this election from what they did last time. Th...

While the townie media are clamouring for details from people who don’t have the details, it’s important to look at what the people with the...

In all the elections in the 21st century, the three political parties in Newfoundland and Labrador have proposed what are essentially the sa...

In his major interview with NTV on the first weekend of the formal provincial election campaign,  Premier Paul Davis insisted that his part...

If the polls are right, we could be looking at an unprecedented shift in politics in Newfoundland and Labrador. We could be looking at lot...

A third poll has confirmed that the provincial Liberals have the support of an overwhelming majority of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians. ...

The provincial election campaign is barely a week old and already we have seen certain themes and interpretations emerging that are the prod...

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If you want to get a sense of how accurate polls were in the last federal election take a look at the ones we have in public and compare tho...