The Sir Robert Bond Papers

"We need to find a way to bridge us [from] where we are currently until the commodities rebound and be [sic] the significant contributo...

New governments often wind up in a bit of a pickle. They walk into a new job where they are supposed to be the folks in charge, but they v...

Apparently, they do. In four randomised field experiments , researchers at Columbia University found that lawn signs increased vote sha...

1.   The Dunphy Shooting:  Serious questions   In January, we are supposed to get the results of the police investigation into the shooting ...

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First, anyone who keeps talking about the two percent HST cut simply has no idea what the hell is going on in provincial finances. Serious...

The new Liberal administration is firmly, irrevocably committed to completing the Muskrat Falls project regardless of the final cost to the ...

Members of the House of Assembly had the good fortune of having two fine candidates for Speaker. While SRBP endorsed Scott Reid, the H...

The comments section at SRBP is gone,  this time for good. The theory was great. People could offer their own views on your writing and ...

Liberal member of the House of Assembly Scott Reid is a candidate for Speaker of the House. By the looks of things,  members will have a c...

A very short post by James Gordon at Uncle Gnarley contains a whole lot of information about the dam Muskrat Falls. Gordon is a retired...

A month ago,  a CBC “analysis” by David Cochrane warned against a band of Liberals running the government with too much power. Two weeks ...

15 minutes. That’s all Tom Marshall said it would take to sell out the bonds on Muskrat Falls. He also said that a federal loan guarant...

Last spring,  SRBP looked at some speculative budget projections using some different prices for oil and  assumed growth in revenue fro...

The new Liberal administration will take power later this morning. Dwight Ball will lead a cabinet of 12. This is only the fourth time ...

Some people are upset that the provincial sales tax won’t be going up by two percent. The current harmonized sales tax rate is 13%. If ...

And there it was. Top of the front page.  Screaming headline. Economist warns Liberal plan doesn’t make sense. Right underneath ...

According to a statement from the federal finance department on Wednesday,  “the federal government will take any necessary steps to ensure ...

CBC and the Telegram   carried a story on Tuesday that the province would be hit by a “mild recession” next year. There’s not much real new...