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26 May 2020

Fighting the Boogeyman with Dwight, John, and Janice #nlpoli

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford pleaded with Ontarians to get tested for COVID-19 on Sunday , even if they were not showing any symptoms. He rep...
24 May 2020

In front of your nose #nlpoli

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Orwell, c. 1940 Colourised by Cassowary Colurization A truly free and democratic society must be based on fundamental rights and freedo...
20 May 2020

The Authoritarian Impulse #nlpoli

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Special Measures Enforcement Jim Dinn used to be a teacher. As head of the provincial teachers’ union , he spearheaded a drive again...
13 May 2020

Terra Nova field production halted for up to two years #nlpoli

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No one should be surprised that the partners in the Terra Nova field are planning to lay up the production platform and will likely sto...
12 May 2020

Ferkakte #nlpoli

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In the past 36 days,  the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador has reported no new cases of CVD-19 on 21 of them. Three weeks worth o...
06 May 2020

The Bow Wow Parliament creates a Kangaroo Court #nlpoli

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The Bow Wow Parliament The first casualty of the current pandemic in Newfoundland and Labrador was democracy and on Tuesday, the pan...
05 May 2020

Troubling travel ban may be illegal, unconstitutional #nlpoli

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Government of Newfoundland and Labrador  guards at COVID-19 Border Check Point (not exactly as illustrated) No other province in Cana...
04 May 2020

The trouble with bubbles #nlpoli

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Another type of Bubbles Stay in your bubble. A cute, clever little phrase that Newfoundlanders and Labradorians have been hearing ...
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...