The Sir Robert Bond Papers

Politics [is] the art of pursuing common interests through... active listening, advocacy, public persuasion, compromise and negotiation. B...

CNLOPB regulates the Newfoundland and Labrador offshore The Government of Canada and ExxonMobil have reached a settlement in the oil co...

There are two aspects to Monday’s announcement about Muskrat Falls and electricity rates:  political and practical items related to Muskr...

Late Friday evening, the Muskrat Falls rate mitigation circus came to town. Again. Around 7:40 PM, long after everyone with sen...

Sliding b'ys. During the recent emergency in eastern Newfoundland and Labrador, both the provincial government and the City of St....

EOCs bring key people together in one spot  with the information needed to make crucial decisions during an emergency. Now we know why...

Communities on the northeast Avalon recovered relatively quickly from the worst blizzard in the province’s recorded history. However, th...

Left to Right:  Bill Doody,  Brian Peckford, John Crosbie, Jane Crosbie, and Beth Crosbie at the 1983 federal PC leadership convention ...

Think of it as classic political news in Newfoundland and Labrador. VOCM headline : “Premier commits to fixing patronage issues in gov...

Today marks the 15th anniversary of The Sir Robert Bond Papers. The first post  - 03 January 2005 - described the atmosphere at its birth...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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