The Sir Robert Bond Papers

Syrian rebels have been using modern technology in the simplest of ways in their war against the Assad regime in Syria. In the picture a...

In his most recent report, Auditor General Terry Paddon disclosed alleged frauds identified during his review of the provincial government&#...

Standard and Poor's said on Friday that the company had lowered its credit rating for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador and Ne...

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Moody's Investor Services is the second rating agency to give the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador a negative trending  in light ...

“I wonder how I would feel if a province or a region in another province prevented Hydro-Québec from building its transmission line. I woul...

Apparently the surest way to piss off a couple of university academics a.k.a the NDP policy brain-trust is to point out how their take on th...

Jon Parsons   has an interesting take on the provincial government's financial mess.  It’s worth taking a few minutes to go through it. ...

Few people would be brave enough to start out a book on politics in  Newfoundland and Labrador with the words “Paul Lane.” Fewer still cou...

DBRS issued a revised rating for the provincial government on Thursday.  It remains "A" but a change to trending from "stable...

That didn’t take long. The fundamental strategic political problem Dwight Ball and his senior advisors have been busily building since las...

Premier Paul Davis was proud of the fact that a bond rating agency had confirmed the province's credit rating. Curiously, he never tol...

In April 2013, SRBP ran a series of posts about public spending. The goal was to show how the government could have avoided its serious fina...

Finance minister Cathy Bennett told CBC that "everything is on the table and we have to make sure that we don't leave anything tha...

by Craig Westcott The Ball administration is off to a shaky start. Actually, it seems afraid to start at all. Tuesday’s press conference a...

Rob Strong has been a key player in the local oil and gas industry pretty much since the earliest days.  He knows what he is talking abo...

From the announcement of "intense" public consultations to solve the provincial government's financial crisis: Question:  H...

A curious thing happens in societies where a huge amount of the collective income derives from outside the local economy and the local tax b...

You can easily lose track of the number of former cabinet ministers who will tell you the same thing. Ask them about the one lesson of gov...

Equalization is a really simple idea. In order to ensure that Canadians across the country have access to comparable services regardless o...