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27 October 2020

The importance of what we talk about #nlpoli

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Nalcor will have to replace about 350 fibreglass beams used in the Labrador-Island Link because of a fault in their manufacture. Nalcor di...
26 October 2020

Husky and Come by Chance Updates #nlpoli

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There is no good reason for governments to intervene in the oil sector even as much as they have.  It has nothing to do with the gibberish o...
19 October 2020

Come by Chance and the Politics of Inertia #nlpoli

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Is *this* the real El Dorado? More than six months after they shut it down, the company that owns the Come by Chance oil refinery wants to s...
14 October 2020

Opening the taps #nlpoli

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Opening the Taps by Edward Hollett on Scribd -srbp-
13 October 2020

The state of news media in Newfoundland and Labrador - 1988 #nlpoli

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Some observations on the state of the news media in Newfoundland and Labrador, circa 1988, from Dr. Susan McCorquodale,  "Newfoundland:...
08 October 2020

How much is Churchill Falls worth? #nlpoli

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  The public policy advantage of quantifying or estimating what the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador might get in revenue from Church...
07 October 2020

Innu Nation suing provincial government not HQ over Churchill Falls #nlpoli

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  Laws suits get filed in court. Political claims for cash launch with a news conference, a website, and a deceptive news release that mis...
05 October 2020

The New Colonialists #nlpoli

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The New Colonialists don't look like the old ones The last day of September is known as Orange Shirt Day . It is a day to remember res...
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...