The Sir Robert Bond Papers

The fancy word for it is revanchism. People who study words and language call it a borrowed word, meaning that we use it in English but got ...

There's a great column in Saturday's Telegram by Pam Frampton that anyone concerned about Muskrat Falls should read.  It's the ...

Reviewers have been so effusive in their praise for Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk  that one suspects that something is very wrong here.  T...

There's a phrase in Pam Frampton's Saturday column on Muskrat Falls. A bunch of words dropped in easily,  maybe offhandedly. Not...

Peter Marshall's  Heretics and believers:  a history of the English Reformation from Yale University Press (2017) arrived as a belate...

From my paper "Two solitudes",   Dorchester Review ,  volume 6, number 1, spring/summer 2016: "Newfoundland and Canada, s...

Facebook has become hugely popular in Newfoundland and Labrador and, not surprisingly, some creative and enterprising fellow came up with a ...

The best little book on Canadian politics and government in a long time. Starting with the basics,  Dale Smith describes how the Canadian...

The Telegraph is a major conventional newspaper in the United Kingdom. And it spreads fake news. There's nothing surprising in that...

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In the midst of a political controversy over recent fishing quotas in Newfoundland and Labrador, two people are talking about the need for b...

Very few Newfoundlanders and Labradorians let alone very few Canadians have ever heard of Monchy-le-Preux. People from St. John's migh...

With the release of Ray Guy:  the final columns, 2003 - 2013 ,  almost every column Ray Guy ever published is now available in book form. ...

For those interested in the controversy caused by an opinion piece in Macleans ,  here are some useful links. 1.  " How a snowstorm e...

"The Honourable Dwight Ball, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador , today announced this year's appointments to Queen's Counse...

After 12 years and two months, we are going to make some serious changes at Bond Papers. For one thing, we'll be going from daily pos...

Phase 2 of the Commission of Inquiry respecting the Death of Donald Dunphy will take place on March 9. It is a one-day symposium to discus...

ST. JOHN ’S, NL – The Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Ed Hollett as a senior researc...

Historian Gerhard bassler's new book from Flanker  examines efforts by the Government of Newfoundland to develop local industry by recru...

Perhaps one of the most disconcerting aspects of former Premier Paul Davis' testimony at the Barry Inquiry last week is the clear eviden...