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28 September 2020

Policy confusion does no one any good #nlpoli

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Last week, the Liberal governments in Ottawa and St. John’s unleashed a bold new innovation in political announcements. Fridays used to be...
21 September 2020

Rumpole and The Old Bull #nlpoli

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Mr. Justice Don Burridge (Not exactly as illustrated) Supporters of the travel ban won a victory last week as Supreme Court Justice Don Burr...
14 September 2020

The Husky Boys' Challenge #nlpoli

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The Husky gambit last week presents the province’s leaders with a fundamental challenge.  Do we continue on the current path or do we change...
31 August 2020

Warning: Elephant Crossing #nlpoli

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Lots of people are very worried and some are quite upset about the government's plan to re-open schools next week. There's more than...
10 August 2020

Illusions of knowledge #nlpoli

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Last week, testimony in the travel ban case by the province’s chief medical officer Dr. Janice Fitzgerald and epidemiologist Dr. Proton Ra...
03 August 2020

The Walking Dead Duck

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This evening Liberals will elect a new leader. And about two weeks from now – likely Friday, August 14 – the new leader will take the oath...
27 July 2020

Dwight and Tom's legacy: more of the same #nlpoli

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Herb Kitchen died last week. He was the minister of finance in the early 1990s who brought down the difficult budgets, starting in 1991 t...
20 July 2020

Change versus more of the same: Summer 2020 edition #nlpoli

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Link to video Spring 1994. At the point Clyde Wells spoke to the graduating class of Memorial University’s business school th...
13 July 2020

The challenge of change #nlpoli

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Change is hard.  It's even harder when no one wants to change. Our Former Dear Premier Some people outside the Liberal Party have been o...
07 July 2020

Muskrat committee flags cost risk for potential alternate transmission software #nlpoli

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At the end of December 2019,   the Muskrat Falls Oversight Committee added development of alternate protection and control software for the ...
06 July 2020

Building on our successes #nlpoli

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"First and foremost, be totally honest with the electorate,”  former Premier Clyde Wells told Anthony Germain on CBC’s  Sunday Edition ...
29 June 2020

All the news the mob will let us print #nlpoli

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Saltwire laid off a hundred or so people last week, 25 of them in Newfoundland and Labrador. The most recent cuts are the result of revenu...
16 June 2020

SCC decision complicates school budgets for fall 2020 #nlpoli

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The provincial government’s budget problems, the amount it spends on education, and its plans for the fall living with COVID-19 just got a w...
15 June 2020

Racism in Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli

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Some people in Newfoundland and Labrador are talking about racism. This is good. Unfortunately, they are talking about racism somewhere ...
09 June 2020

Mimicry and Pantomime #nlpoli

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A couple of thousand people turned out in St. John’s on Saturday for a rally organized by a new group calling itself Black Lives Matter NL ....
01 June 2020

The facts of the case #nlpoli

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From the start of the pandemic, the provincial government  took decisions for political reasons, not medical ones.  It continues to do so.  ...
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...