The Sir Robert Bond Papers

The Premier had a carefully rehearsed message when reporters asked him on Thursday why he had appointed everyone in cabinet back to their ol...

The House of Assembly will have to deliver a budget that keeps access to new public debt for the foreseeable future. The politicians must s...

In the episode that aired on 26 May 2019, Premier Dwight Ball told NTV's Issues and Answers that the deficit for the current budget is ...

Simon Lono  - husband, father, grandfather, advocate, orator, writer, mentor, friend  - died Friday, May 24, 2019.    He was 56.    When...

An inherently unstable minority legislature where the parties have a history of finding political agreement through public spending is not...

You will hear a lot of spin about Thursday’s election result.   Doesn’t matter where it is coming from.   It is all spin and all spin i...

The prospect of a minority government coupled with the need to pass a budget in the legislature after the election could produce a long, ho...

Public ignorance of our political system is a scourge.  Tackling that is the first step to meaningful electoral reform in Newfoundland and ...

The chart below looks like there has been a huge jump up and down in “no choice” and a corresponding big change in party choice but actua...

While the MQO poll shows the Liberals in the lead, a new poll from Abacus  - released with an hour of this appearing - will likely show tha...

The financial reality confronting any administration after May 16 is the same regardless of which party wins the election.   The governm...

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

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

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

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...

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

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....

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

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

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