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23 December 2019

SRBP on VOCM's On Target #nlpoli

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For those who missed it, your humble e-scribbler appeared on VOCM's On Target with Linda Swain twice this year. Here are links to the ...
18 December 2019

Borrowed Money and Borrowed Time #nlpoli

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Tom Osborne was in Ottawa on Tuesday with his fellow finance ministers trying to squeeze some extra cash out of the federal government.  ...
17 December 2019

Three books for Christmas #nlpoli

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Top Choice  Where Once They Stood  is arguably the most significant work on modern Newfoundland and Labrador political history in mor...
16 December 2019

Lomond cleared by Citizen's Rep of wrongdoing in email deletion #nlpoli

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In a report on his investigation, Citizen's Representative Barry Fleming said that while deputy minister Ted Lomond had directed the de...
11 December 2019

All three parties in NL gain in polls #nlpoli

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The latest poll from Narrative Research shows the distorting effective of disregarding the "undecideds". The number of people wh...
10 December 2019

Transitory Records #nlpoli

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In dealing with one aspect of the business of getting Carla Foote from Executive Council to The Rooms,  deputy minster Ted Lomond suggested ...
09 December 2019

Political Foote Ball #nlpoli

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Since 2003, the legislature has become more about political theatre than the public interest.    This past sitting of the House proves how...
03 December 2019

Chaulk and Cheese #nlpoli

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If the members of the House of Assembly vote to accept the reports from two statutory officers as presented they will have to accept that ...
02 December 2019

Setting minimum wage #nlpoli

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The minimum wage should be tied to the economy, predictable, transparent, and removed from political interference. One way of setting mi...
27 November 2019

A mouthful of burp #nlpoli

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Not one mitigation scheme. Not two mitigation schemes. Three mitigation schemes. Delivered by the end of January. All wo...
25 November 2019

The Rookies, the House, and the Orchestra Pit #nlpoli

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What is reported is seldom what happened even though what happened is far more interesting than the stuff that falls into the orchestra pit...
12 November 2019

The importance of what we care about #nlpoli

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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 ...
04 November 2019

The New Welfare Bums #nlpoli #cdnpoli #ableg

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Lunacy is always easier to spot in other people. There is a Liberal conspiracy to rob Alberta of its precious fluids. People in Ne...
28 October 2019

Roger Grimes: the unlikely reactionary #nlpoli

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What is happening in Newfoundland and Labrador is not merely polarization in public opinion.  Polarization implies that people are within t...
23 October 2019

Politicians shirk their duty... again #nlpoli

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If the Auditor General starts the investigation of wetlands capping as requested by the Public Accounts Committee, then she will be acting...
22 October 2019

The Difference between Then and Now #nlpoli

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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...
21 October 2019

Regional Parties from another Region #nlpoli

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