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29 August 2005
A banana municipality or just plain bananas? Mail-in voting system ignores monkey business
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A post last week on Bond Papers brought attention to the prospect of vote fraud in the upcoming municipal election in St. John's owing ...
A public embarrassment
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This week, governors from the New England states and premiers from Ontario, Quebec and the four Atlantic provinces are in St. John's for...
Canadian campaign blog
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For political junkies, few things could get them as excited as a new blog from an anonymous but obviously experienced campaigner. Campaign C...
28 August 2005
Eric Gullage to challenge Coombs?
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There's a rumour circulating in some circles that former city councillor, former member of the House of Assembly and former cabinet mini...
27 August 2005
Blog changes
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Some of you may have noticed some changes on the sidebar over the past few weeks. 1. The experiment with advertising died a quiet death. Asi...
26 August 2005
Don't quit your day job, Andy
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Some people might think that this announcement moves Andy Wells one step closer to heading up the board that regulates oil and gas explorat...
What's buggin' Bill?
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Crap Talk host Bill Rowe took exception on Thursday to this initiative by St. John's council at-large candidate Simon Lono. In the inter...
25 August 2005
Snowbirds: ground 'em or replace 'em.
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This story from CTV highlights the need for Canadians to get a serious grip on their need for an air force aerobatic team. They are flying a...
24 August 2005
Pat Robertson: stooge
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Funny how when prominent people say really stupid things, the first line of defense is always to blame the media for misquoting them. In the...
Brian who?
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Yet another poll, by SES Research, this time into possible successors to Paul Martin and Stephen Harper. Notice that Brian Tobin, long rumou...
SES-Sun media poll - Harper and Martin
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Following is the ext of a release by SES Research on public attitudes toward the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition. Given the...
23 August 2005
Vote-by-mail fraud risk in St. John's municipal contest
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St. John's city council recently endorsed an all-mail ballot system for the upcoming municipal election. The system is supposed to incre...
22 August 2005
End the gas pricing charade!
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George Murphy is a St. John's taxi driver. He calls the radio call-in shows regularly to give his update and analysis of gas price trend...
Baker digs hole deeper - for herself
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There were those who thought St. John's lawyer Averrill Baker would this week deal with accusations her columns on fisheries management ...
19 August 2005
Expensive hospitality for Efford - or was it comms advice? [Updated]
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[Update: While the folks at federal natural resources didn't spend very much time on the Bond papers when it might have helped, they sud...
Walken for Pres a hoax
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At least it was a bit of fun for a few seconds. Check here to get the straight story .
18 August 2005
A truly Canadian policy on gas prices
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Surely this is the End Time. Federal Conservative leader Stephen Harper, some provincial premiers and, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Ersatz ...
17 August 2005
Lono at Large!
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Simon Lono is declaring his candidacy for St. John's city council today at noon on the steps of city hall. As shop-worn as that might be...
16 August 2005
Libs up, Connies down: SES
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Here's the text of a news release from SES Research, the same guys who provided the highly accurate polling for CPAC during the last fed...
A good public relations case study
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For those who like to take lessons from other people's cock ups, there's a great story in the Monday Globe on how CN handled the tra...
Taylor late on shrimp
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Provincial fisheries minister Trevor Taylor issued a news release on Monday calling on the federal government to step up efforts to find a ...
15 August 2005
The gas price regulation fraud continues
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For anyone wanting to understand petroleum pricing, here's the link to Dennis Browne's 1998 study for the provincial government. D...
Walken for President 2008
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Now this is a candidate I could get excited about! Actor Christopher Walken is known for his portrayals of strong characters, some of them h...
12 August 2005
Blog Break/Fish Proposal Coming
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Yesterday was an inadvertent day off blogging in the middle of the week. Between work and work and well, work there was no way to get anythi...
Thistle sleep walks through local crisis
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If this VOCM report is accurate, then one can only conclude that Anna Thistle does not have a single clue as to the issues involved in the ...
10 August 2005
Cooking up numbers
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St. John's lawyer Averill (A.J.) Baker owns quite a reputation among some readers of the weekly newspapers in the province, thanks in la...
09 August 2005
The Danny Legacy Option for the Lower Churchill
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As noted in the Bond Papers on Friday , the Premier held a news conference on Monday to update the province on the process to develop the Lo...
08 August 2005
15, 000 tonnes of cod for local fishers: Baker column lost in sea of facts
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Refuting claims by local lawyer and newspaper columnist Averrill (A.J.) Baker, Newfoundland and Labrador fishing interests landed almost 15...
06 August 2005
Government newser on Monday?
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Some rumours swirling that government is planning a news conference on Monday to talk about the Lower Churchill. Good way to get the heat of...
05 August 2005
Friday? Must be Abitibi day [Update]
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Here's a simple question natural resources minister Ed Byrne might answer: Given: Government is claiming Abitibi Consolidated wants to b...
04 August 2005
Damn-fool fishery - some facts [Second Revision]
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In the relentless nonsense about the Damn-Fool Fishery, there is a story Jim Morgan has been pushing that there was suddenly a by-catch quot...
03 August 2005
Up the Pond!
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With any luck and a good weather forecast, Wednesday marks the annual St. John's Regatta. The boat races held on Quidi Vidi [pronounced ...
02 August 2005
Local lobster miracle
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Out of New Brunswick comes a story about some lobster re-stocking program that worked very well. That's all fine, but there is always t...
01 August 2005
What the heck is public relations?
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In 1999, I headed up the public affairs section of the Department of National Defence task force in Newfoundland and Labrador that would co-...
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