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24 October 2016
The political dynamics of Muskrat Falls #nlpoli #dip-o-crites #cdnpoli
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The people of Labrador who have now occupied the work camp at the construction site are exercising the only political influence they have in...
21 October 2016
False choices #nlpoli
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It's not often you can see a "half-way" compromise as plainly as the one the provincial government announced on Wednesday abo...
20 October 2016
The Reverse Midas Touch Rides Again #nlpoli
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The crowd running this place these days has an unrivalled ability to look at a problem and find the worst possible response imaginable. On...
19 October 2016
Rumpole and Reversible Error #nlpoli
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Brian Tobin's favourite judge may be on his way to the Supreme Court of Canada but along the way he will probably have to answer a few q...
18 October 2016
The War of the Flea Circus #nlpoli
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Muskrat Falls has become a three-ring flea circus. In the first ring, we have the political ambulance chasers, a.k.a. Maudie Barlow and ...
17 October 2016
Caribous, Choice, and Craziness #nlpoli
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For a while, it looked like one of the island's major communities wouldn't be able to put a senior hockey team on the ice for the ne...
14 October 2016
Refitting the USS Nimitz (CVN-68)
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Ordered in 1967, laid down in 1968, launched in 1972 and commissioned in 1975, USS Nimitz is the lead ship of a class of 10 aircraft ...
13 October 2016
The politics of Sally Albright #nlpoli
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A surprisingly large number of people loved Monday's post about the political impotence of protesting against Muskrat Falls now that the...
12 October 2016
Eeyore and the Blustery Day #nlpoli
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Premier Dwight Ball stood up before a hand-picked crowd at The Rooms on Tuesday and told them they were there to help develop a strategy for...
11 October 2016
The Bigger Picture #nlpoli
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Whatever the provincial government is doing about its own spending or the provincial economy generally or whatever it is up to starts at 9:0...
10 October 2016
Politics as masturbation #nlpoli
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"I am warning you. Don't make me wear my pikachu costume." Demonstrations at Memorial University and at Nalcor headquar...
07 October 2016
Sweat Equity - new ISER book on housing policy #nlpoli
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Sweat Equity Cooperative House-Building in Newfoundland , 1920–1974 C.A. Sharpe and A.J Shawyer "The lack of decent urb...
06 October 2016
Canada's Dippers: taking the democracy out of politics #nlpoli
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The guy who didn't know what electoral district he lived in likes proportional representation. Provincial Dipper boss Earle " M...
The trouble with transparency - CADO version #nlpoli
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"How do you deal with a government computer system that is hopelessly out of date it wants you to 'update' your Internet brows...
05 October 2016
The trouble with transparency #nlpoli
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Last week, the provincial government's communications gang tweeted a picture, which we have reprinted on the right. It was supposed t...
04 October 2016
The Strategic Two-Step #nlpoli
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There's a sheet of paper taped on the underside of one of the drawers in the Premier's desk on the 8th Floor. It's very old...
03 October 2016
The Way Forward #nlpoli
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Last December, Dwight Ball laid out his plan to deal with the provincial government's financial problems. Ball made the comments to CB...
30 September 2016
Jerome! rides again #nlpoli
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Retired justice David Riche is the only independent person who has examined any information about Don Dunphy's death. Hired by the Roy...
29 September 2016
The letter Peter Whittle got #nlpoli
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This is the letter Peter Whittle got from his colleagues on the school councils federation executive. Whittle resigned today.
Samson sale price "reflective of risk": Galgay #nlpoli
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Jonathan Galgay sent along an email to add some information to the post last week about the city's tax assessment for the property at...
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