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20 June 2005
Icelandic outmigration
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An e-mail from the far off Persian Gulf prompted me to dig a bit more at the issue of Icelandic outmigration. Here's a link that describ...
The Iceland model
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Predictably, the Open Line crowd and likely a few others are excited about the Icelandic model. They are thinking that if Newfoundland and L...
NOIA conference missing the feds
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The Newfoundland Ocean Industries Association conference starts today. Check out the agenda. The only federal participation at all is from ...
A simple constitutional question
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Since Danny Williams has no problem over-ruling a legal decision by a properly constituted school board, just because he has the power to do...
A simple question
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In the past week, Danny Williams has shown he is willing: 1. to overrule a school board for any reason whatsoever, despite having given the...
18 June 2005
More than a play - CBC Radio June 19
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Here's a heads-up on a radio documentary some of you might find interesting. It's by an old friend of mine who is a radio producer h...
17 June 2005
Curious ship with a golf ball on top
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Anyone driving on the waterfront in St. John's can see a vessel called Gulf Pacific , owned by Gulf Fleet, an offshore supply boat comp...
X-Band radars and Goose Bay - update
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CBC Radio news is reporting this morning that there is continued interest in locating an X-band radar system at Goose Bay of what would ine...
16 June 2005
Negatively impacting on the brain housing group: Another D'oh for D'underdale!
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Last year, no one in the provincial government managed to do a simple online search for information on Sino-Energy. One of the partners, a C...
15 June 2005
When you hear hoofbeats...
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think horses, not zebras. That's an old axiom used to teach doctors the simple logic of diagnosis. Go for the more obvious or most likel...
14 June 2005
Blogosphere Book Club
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I was actually tagged on this one last Monday by Liam O'Brien over at Responsible Government League and since the Governor General hers...
13 June 2005
The tragedy of common-place thinking
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Take a look at The Independent this week and you'll see an interesting study in contrasts. On the front page is a solid story by Stepha...
11 June 2005
USS Connie-prise season ender (updated)
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The Globe is reporting this morning that a recent poll for the Globe and CTV by The Strategic Counsel shows a further slide in Connie suppo...
10 June 2005
The Tragedy of FPI
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Halfway through the debate on changes to legislation governing Fishery Products International Limited (FPI), the whole focus has shifted to ...
Double threat: young and smart
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Last Saturday's Telegram carried a front page story by Rob Antle on a poll conducted by Ryan Research for the provincial government bac...
Nice photoshop job, Stevie
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Even though he was actually here, seems that Stevie Harper couldn't find time in his tightly scripted appearance at the municipalities c...
Yeah. that's the ticket. Hearn and Doyle hire ex-SNL character as strategy whiz
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The budget - including the offshore money - is a government bill. The Connies are in Opposition and up until now were hell bent on killing t...
09 June 2005
The first step to expanding the EEZ
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For those who are agitating for expansion of the country's exclusive economic zone (EEZ), here's a useful story from CBC . Call it c...
08 June 2005
A hard look at CRA numbers
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Without going into too much detail, it is worth taking a closer look at the actual news release issued by Corporate Research Associates on ...
Meanwhile back on another farm...
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There's a post coming on the FPI proposal and the re-emergence of talk show gadflies swarming around this issue. While I work on it, her...
07 June 2005
Singing a new song on the offshore
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Premier Danny Williams recently delivered a message to oil companies looking at offshore Newfoundland and Labrador, telling them that he wil...
06 June 2005
Connie comm strategy: duck and cover
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For those who follow these things, take a look at this link to a Canadian journalist blog. Harper's lack of a scrum or other media avai...
Canada doesn't own the ocean - Updated
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VOCM is reporting this morning that environmental group the Sierra Club has proposed salvaging the Titan booster left over from the Big Laun...
John has a long moustache
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On beaches in northern France, 61 years ago today, hundreds of thousands of young men from the United States, Britain, France, Canada and ot...
05 June 2005
Sunday morning, 8 AM: Quality time
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It's Sunday morning and while most people aren't reading blogs today (readership drops off by about 40% whether I post or not) , I t...
03 June 2005
C*O*N agents doctored tapes: expert
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CBC is reporting that a technical expert in audio recordings has found substantive evidence that the Grewal tapes made public recently have ...
02 June 2005
Meanwhile, back on the farm...
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Joe, disguised as a door, looks on in amusement as Danny Williams puts the blocks to the Liberals by calling a quickie by-election in Exploi...
Homer Grewal
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If you listen to the handful of Grewal that have been released - handful out of the others there should be - there is another thing that lea...
01 June 2005
More than a good poll and an announcement a week
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People who look at politics from the outside often focus on the stuff that they can see. In looking at the pending changes in the provincial...
Clips the Lampoon won't show you
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Here are a few clips from the Grewal tapes that Canadian Press and the National Lampoon missed. Oddly they aren't highlighted in the ori...
Grewal transcripts wrong. Updated
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Careful listening to the audio tapes released by Gurmant Grewal today show significant errors in the transcript provided on the Connie parli...
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