The Sir Robert Bond Papers
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31 January 2017
What is it about Quebec and mass killings? #nlpoli
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Compared to the United States, there haven't been a lot of mass killings in Canada. Period. Full stop. Canada is predominantly ...
Local news media in the post-factual world #nlpoli
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Chris O'Neill-Yates is a veteran CBC journalist. Like most people in her line of work, Chris is on Twitter plugging both her own work ...
30 January 2017
Duff in the hole encore #nlpoli
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Oh dear. The CBC has gone off to the mainland to get Duff Conacher to make a comment about the need for political finance reform in Newfo...
Mean Tweets #nlpoli
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In the United States, a late-night television program created a regular feature that has celebrities read the comments made about them on T...
27 January 2017
Feehan, electricity prices, and the bigger problem. #nlpoli
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Jim Feehan's proposal to change the way we price electricity in the province got some media attention -over the past 24 hours. Feehan ...
26 January 2017
Faroese fishermen skirting Canadian port ban via St. Pierre #nlpoli
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Fishing boats from the Faroe Islands are getting around a ban on shipping through Canadian ports by unloading their catch in St. Pierre firs...
25 January 2017
Kevin, Donald, and Danny #nlpoli
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A Forum poll released on Monday showed 27% of those surveyed thought celebrity businessman Kevin O'Leary would make the best leader of...
24 January 2017
Ratings trump truth: Justified edition #nlpoli
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Updated (scroll to the -srbp-) Someone in Gander Bay has been catching and selling quantities of smelt. The Department of Fisheries and ...
23 January 2017
Sovereignty #nlpoli
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Newfoundland and Labrador is one of the very few countries on the planet that got itself into such a financial mess that it gave up self-gov...
20 January 2017
Another premier... same health care facility #nlpoli
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A gaggle of provincial politicians representing districts along the west coast of Newfoundland turned up in Corner Brook on Friday for anoth...
Ratings trump truth #nlpoli
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Sometimes the universe delivers you the magical set of circumstances you just can't ignore. Danny Williams turned up at the St. John...
19 January 2017
New French anti-terror measure impacts Newfoundland #nlpoli
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A group of 35 young people traveling from St. Pierre to Corner Brook at the end of the month are going to be affected by a new French anti-c...
Actions and Words (2016) #nlpoli
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The provincial cabinet has known since January - at least - that the powerhouse at Muskrat Falls is only 15% completed despite a huge payout...
18 January 2017
A bail out, a bail out ... #nlpoli
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Conversation about the province's financial state in the past couple of weeks have turned to talk of bailouts and threats to the provinc...
The Narrative War (2015) #nlpoli
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The day after a massive Liberal victory in the general election, CBC’s David Cochrane posted an analysis piece on the new administration...
17 January 2017
The last man on the moon
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Gene Cernan died on Monday. He was many things in his life but Cernan will be best known as the last man who set foot on the moon during...
Cognitive Dissonance (2014) #nlpoli
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People like things in life to fit together. When things don’t fit together, people get upset. They get fidgety. They try to make thin...
16 January 2017
A muskrat by any other name... #nlpoli
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Memorial University economist Jim Feehan proposed in the December issue of Canadian Public Policy that the provincial government should cha...
The Keystone Kops Ride Again (2013) #nlpoli
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We already knew that the provincial cabinet had abandoned their budget before the document had been debated in the House. That happened la...
13 January 2017
Conservatives and Millennials #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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The talk was supposed to be about the political culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Does it ever change? What Tim Powers wound up spen...
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