The Sir Robert Bond Papers

Not one mitigation scheme. Not two mitigation schemes. Three mitigation schemes. Delivered by the end of January. All wo...

What is reported is seldom what happened even though what happened is far more interesting than the stuff that falls into the orchestra pit...

When we do not talk about the most vulnerable people in our society – sex workers and people in homeless shelters to name just two groups ...

Lunacy is always easier to spot in other people. There is a Liberal conspiracy to rob Alberta of its precious fluids. People in Ne...

What is happening in Newfoundland and Labrador is not merely polarization in public opinion.  Polarization implies that people are within t...

If the Auditor General starts the investigation of wetlands capping as requested by the Public Accounts Committee, then she will be acting...

A few months ago, SRBP wrote a two-part piece that described the change in the way politicians, bureaucrats, and the public looked at mana...

The 2019 federal election in Newfoundland and Labrador is the tale of one of the most uncompetitive elections in recent memory. The ad...

The problem we have is not a lack of options and opportunities to sort out the government finances ourselves.  The problem facing Newfoundl...

The handful of people who pay close attention to politics in Newfoundland and Labrador are probably scratching the barely-healed-over scab...

VOCM's Question of the Day is not a reliable gauge of public opinion. But the three times that VOCM asked about race in the province o...

The latest quarterly poll from Narrative Research shows that a gaggle of folks who were likely New Democratic Party supporters returned to...

The most important implications of the Trimper Affair escaped notice. _____________________________________ In the midst of all the...

Holyrood is the latest place in Newfoundland and Labrador to go through what is, in many parts of the province, a regular event. One o...

Last week,   Newfoundlanders and Labradorians got a few reminders of the magnitude of the political problem they face in addition to the f...

Both Delia Warren and Dwight Ball believe that we need to diversify the provincial economy and reduce our dependence on oil. They bot...

Last week, the Premier’s Office sent out a picture of the Premier standing next to the mascot of a town in Newfoundland and Labrador. ...

Tony Collins Bill Rowe Lana Payne Bob Wakeham Follow the pattern. -srbp-

The threat from Muskrat Falls can only be removed by concerted action that addresses the project’s financial burden, restores integrity to ...

Politics and policy are much more complicated things than they appear to many people. Change is possible, but effective change can only com...