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30 December 2016

2016 in books #nlpoli

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1.   Brand Command by Alex Marland.  The book that political marketing and communications academics will be quoting for a while to come. ...

Top 10 Posts of 2016 #nlpoli

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These are the posts you read the most of all. 01.   Balls digs himself deeper into hole  - May 2016 and yet another twist in the tale of E...
29 December 2016

Reality Check: gas tax and debt/deficit #nlpoli

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Comment on Twitter: "If my household spends too much and goes into debt I don't expect others too pay for my mistakes, yet govn m...

Fact-checking CBC and Food Banks #nlpoli

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The headline on the CBC story just felt wrong. The kind of over-the-top exaggeration that just sounds biased. Distorted. Wrong. &qu...

The Tibb's Eve Accord #nlpoli

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Health minister John Haggie  said that the health deal signed with Ottawa on Tibb's Eve was the best deal that could be got. Haggie...
28 December 2016

Bullying and Bennett #nlpoli

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Cathy Bennett is the finance minister.  She's one of the most powerful and influential people in the province, bar none and certainly sh...
27 December 2016

Policy is people #nlpoli

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Kim Keating is a member of the newly-appointed council to advise the provincial government on oil and gas issues. She's a professiona...
26 December 2016

Beethoven's 9th Symphony

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24 December 2016

O come, o come Emmanuel

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23 December 2016

Canada-NL Health Deal: Warning Signs #nlpoli #cdnpoli

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Late Friday evening, the provincial government announced it had signed a deal with the federal government on health funding. We don't...

Es ist ein ros entsprungen

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22 December 2016

In the bleak midwinter

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21 December 2016

Spin, illustrated #nlpoli

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Spin is a bit more than a mere biased interpretation or a clever reframing of an idea.  In other words, there's more to it than saying t...

Ding dong merrily on high

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20 December 2016

Gender Gap - Sunshine edition #nlpoli

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The House of Assembly passed a bill during the last sitting that would allow the government to publish a list every year of all the people w...
19 December 2016

Gender Gap, 2004-2014 #nlpoli

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In 2004,  the median income for men in Newfoundland and Labrador was $10,000 higher than the median income for women.  By 2014,  the gap in ...
15 December 2016

The Darker Side #nlpoli

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The day after Cathy Bennett talked about the hate-filled and threatening messages she'd received after delivering last spring's budg...
14 December 2016

Brutal #nlpoli

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Any Liberals who thought they were out of the political woods got a harsh reminder of the truth on Tuesday. Their leader remains as unpopu...

Townie Elite #nlpoli

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Add Townie Elite to your online reading. Peter Jackson spent 25 years at the Telegram, where he used to write a regular column. Now he&...
13 December 2016

Unacceptable #nlpoli

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Finance minister Cathy Bennett did something very brave on Monday.  She did something far braver than carry on without disclosing some of th...