The Sir Robert Bond Papers

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Now that Muskrat Falls is officially a boondoggle,  all sorts of people are rushing forward to criticise it. Others are also rushing forwa...

Right off the start, let's affirm that Nalcor was created by an administration that was, from the time it took office, notorious for its...

In  announcing an inquiry  into some aspects of Muskrat Falls on Monday, the Premier muddled up some numbers that suggest the confusion at ...

One newsroom. Two different interpretations of  federal NDP leader Jagmeet Sing's position on Muskrat Falls. In Sarah Smellie's...

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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...

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...

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...