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30 April 2019

Voter Turn-out and Popular Vote Shares of Parties, 1949 - 2019 #nlpoli

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Election turn-out has been declining steadily for provincial elections since the mid-1990s.  The 2019 general election is on track to show ...
29 April 2019

Where do elections come from? #nlpoli

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From fixed election dates to the number of candidates that run in an election,  what Newfoundlanders and Labradorians believe about one of ...
22 April 2019

Restoring Power - Mitigating the Impacts of Muskrat Falls #nlpoli

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Left untended, the Muskrat Falls project threatens the financial well-being of the government and people of Newfoundland and Labrador. The t...
17 April 2019

Budget 2019 - revised trends #nlpoli

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Budget 2019 was an election budget in the sense it contained a lot of little goodies, but there was nothing to get overly excited about. W...
16 April 2019

A CHEAP Framework - the PC and Liberal Muskrat Falls plans #nlpoli

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The Conservative and Liberal Muskrat Falls rate mitigation plans are the same.  Both include magical assumptions of revenue.  Both omit cru...
15 April 2019

Budget 2019 Context #nlpoli

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Most of the commentary about Budget 2019 on Tuesday will be focused on the short-term. Here are some slides that show longer-term trending....
09 April 2019

The 2005 and 2019 Federal-Provincial Agreements #nlpoli

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The Atlantic Accord functions in Newfoundland and Labrador politics in two ways.  There is the agreement between the Government of Canada a...
08 April 2019

The Atlantic Accord: background to the 1985 agreement #nlpoli

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The Atlantic Accord functions in Newfoundland and Labrador politics in two ways.   There is the agreement between the Government of Canada ...
01 April 2019

Gaslighting a society #nlpoli

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Saturday morning and Facebook delivered a video clip of Peter Mansbridge accepting a lifetime achievement award. After the obligatory tha...
26 March 2019

Everyone loses: new MQO poll for NTV #nlpoli

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On the eve of an anticipated election call, voters in Newfoundland and Labrador turn up their noses at everyone currently on the field. Th...
18 March 2019

Banning plastic bags and public policy in Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli

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Effective public policy must be based on a clear understanding of the problem and its relation to other issues, as well as public needs and...
04 March 2019

Unformation #nlpoli

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Changes in the news media,  changes in the audience, and changes in what information organizations provide to the pubic have created the U...
18 February 2019

Seven Days of Books in One #nlpoli

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The seven books from my part of the book challenge, with each described by the respective publisher's blurb: 1.  The myth of the stron...
11 February 2019

The Politics of Beige #nlpoli

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The trend is impossible to miss. Utterly undeniable. Since early 2016,  through poll after poll,  voters in Newfoundland and Labrador ha...
07 February 2019

Napalm sticks... #nlpoli

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The latest poll from MQO is being reported as a statistical tie by NTV  , while CBC says it shows a "neck and neck" race between t...
04 February 2019

The Turmoil and Topsy Turvy #nlpoli

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With so much changing in any office,  what has "always" been done really only goes back to the time of the last person who came i...
30 January 2019

Election year a time for serious issues #nlpoli

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This originally appeared in The Telegram , 30 Jan 2019. Budget consultations are not the place for serious discussions of government f...
28 January 2019

Turmoil, unusual #nlpoli

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A petro-state with political instability is a pretty weird idea  but then again we *are* talking Newfoundland and Labrador. The Governm...
19 January 2019

The Spring Election - when and why #nlpoli

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There's likely going to be an election before Victoria Day. If - by some miracle - the Liberals manage to win the Topsail-Paradise by-...
03 January 2019

Mitigating Muskrat Falls: Ron, Harry, and Hermione are still baffled #nlpoli

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Mitigating the impacts Muskrat Falls will have on taxpayers of Newfoundland and Labrador remains the single biggest unanswered question in...