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28 April 2020

Bursting bureaucratic bullshit bubbles #nlpoli

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The daily average for new CVD cases has been declining since late March. In one of the provinces hardest hit by COVID-19,   Ontarians g...
20 April 2020

The three CVD19 pressures the NL government will face #nlpoli

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Last week, SRBP raised the likelihood that declining numbers of active cases of CVD19 in Newfoundland and Labrador will put pressure on th...
15 April 2020

Trends #nlpoli

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How do you keep in place the very necessary and successful restrictions on public life needed to combat the spread of CVD19 when the succe...
14 April 2020

Doctor Aggie's H'Answer #nlpoli

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“What do I have to do to get you to listen?” health minister John Haggie asked rhetorically and with considerable exasperation at Monday’s...
13 April 2020

Number of active COVID cases in NL declines dramatically #nlpoli

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Newfoundland and Labrador is already emerging from the first wave of the COVID-19 infection. The data from the provincial government’s...
06 April 2020

Financial Fustications #nlpoli

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If we had Equalization, we'd have a budget surplus. On Friday, 20 Mar 20, Premier Dwight Ball wrote to the Prime minister to say t...
02 April 2020

Bollocks #nlpoli

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Kill the wabbit? Moody’s has changed its outlook on the provincial government’s debt from stable to negative while sustaining the A1 r...
30 March 2020

All around in circles #nlpoli

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Going around in circles must be frustrating. Plummeting crude prices have dropped refining margins to negative numbers and so it is...
27 March 2020

Facing the financial wall, again #nlpoli

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Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro makes money by making and selling electricity. In 2018, the last year for which we have statistics,   Hy...
24 March 2020

Bank of Canada to help GNL make payroll #nlpoli

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Bank of Canada 234 Wellington St, Ottawa The Bank of Canada announced today that it will purchase up to 40% of money market securities...
23 March 2020

The doctor is out... of the province #nlpoli

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Health minister John Haggie announced on Friday that doctors in the province could now start seeing patients remotely either by telephon...

Experience Counts - COVID Economic Balls-Up Edition #nlpoli

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Update:   The links below don't work any more. Both the screwed up one (March 20) and the revised one (March 21) appear to have dis...
11 March 2020

Cleaning up the mess of Muskrat Falls #nlpoli

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There are a couple of points in his 1,000 page report where commissioner Richard LeBlanc refers to politicians and other officials of th...
10 March 2020

NL after the oil boom and hydro bust #nlpoli

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Newfoundland and Labrador Historical Society George Story Lecture and Annual General Meeting Marine Institute - Hampton Hall The R...
09 March 2020

Remembering Simon Lono #nlpoli

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Today is Simon Lono's birthday. He would have been 57. This coming Saturday there's a celebration of his life. Drop by and s...
02 March 2020

Oil, Premiers, and Coming Soon #nlpoli

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Impact of Hebron flat royalty at prices below US$50 click to go to 2015 post West Texas Intermediate and Brent crude were both trading ...
24 February 2020

On the need for politics #nlpoli

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Politics [is] the art of pursuing common interests through... active listening, advocacy, public persuasion, compromise and negotiation. B...
17 February 2020

Settlement in ExxonMobil dispute #nlpoli

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CNLOPB regulates the Newfoundland and Labrador offshore The Government of Canada and ExxonMobil have reached a settlement in the oil co...
11 February 2020

Interesting news, buried under bull #nlpoli

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There are two aspects to Monday’s announcement about Muskrat Falls and electricity rates:  political and practical items related to Muskr...
10 February 2020

The Rate Mitigation Circus of Horrors #nlpoli

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