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Churchill Falls and Muskrat Falls - Background
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21 November 2017
Multiple Interlocking Rationalizations #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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In announcing an inquiry into some aspects of Muskrat Falls on Monday, the Premier muddled up some numbers that suggest the confusion at ...
20 November 2017
When a change is not a change: the NDP and Muskrat Falls #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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One newsroom. Two different interpretations of federal NDP leader Jagmeet Sing's position on Muskrat Falls. In Sarah Smellie's...
03 November 2017
Newfoundland soldiers arrive in Britain (1940)
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02 November 2017
The Poppy
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According to the Royal Canadian Legion's Poppy Manual , the Legion will never authorize the display of a poppy on "blogs or discu...
08 September 2017
Fixing the date or fixing the election #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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Arguably, Justice Gillian Butler’s decision in a six year old case on the special ballot provisions of the provincial election law is one o...
28 August 2017
The Quebec Demon #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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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 ...
07 August 2017
Muskrat, risk, and memory #nlpoli
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There's a great column in Saturday's Telegram by Pam Frampton that anyone concerned about Muskrat Falls should read. It's the ...
24 July 2017
Dunkirk (2017)
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Reviewers have been so effusive in their praise for Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk that one suspects that something is very wrong here. T...
17 July 2017
Traces of the Grossly Impudent Lie #nlpoli
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There's a phrase in Pam Frampton's Saturday column on Muskrat Falls. A bunch of words dropped in easily, maybe offhandedly. Not...
11 July 2017
Heretics and Believers
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Peter Marshall's Heretics and believers: a history of the English Reformation from Yale University Press (2017) arrived as a belate...
30 June 2017
Canada 150 #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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From my paper "Two solitudes", Dorchester Review , volume 6, number 1, spring/summer 2016: "Newfoundland and Canada, s...
23 May 2017
The Newfie Thing #nlpoli
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Facebook has become hugely popular in Newfoundland and Labrador and, not surprisingly, some creative and enterprising fellow came up with a ...
15 May 2017
The unbroken machine #nlpoli
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The best little book on Canadian politics and government in a long time. Starting with the basics, Dale Smith describes how the Canadian...
12 May 2017
Junk reporting of medical research
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The Telegraph is a major conventional newspaper in the United Kingdom. And it spreads fake news. There's nothing surprising in that...
01 May 2017
World Press Freedom Day - May 3
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24 April 2017
Plain language, power, and politics #nlpoli
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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...
14 April 2017
Monchy-le-Preux #nlpoli
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Very few Newfoundlanders and Labradorians let alone very few Canadians have ever heard of Monchy-le-Preux. People from St. John's migh...
03 April 2017
Ray and Robert #nlpoli
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With the release of Ray Guy: the final columns, 2003 - 2013 , almost every column Ray Guy ever published is now available in book form. ...
27 March 2017
The Andrew Potter Affair #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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For those interested in the controversy caused by an opinion piece in Macleans , here are some useful links. 1. " How a snowstorm e...
20 March 2017
Queen's Counsel and other things that sound alike #nlpoli
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"The Honourable Dwight Ball, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador , today announced this year's appointments to Queen's Counse...
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