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20 October 2005
The Williams oil and gas corporation - institutionalising dependence
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When Danny Williams released his Blue Book , it appeared to contain a contradiction. Thanks to Rob Antle's story in yesterday's Tele...
19 October 2005
Steele chairs offshore board selection panel
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Harry Steele , chairman of the board of Newfoundland Capital Corporation, will chair the three member panel to select a new chair and chief ...
Herbicide Orange in Newfoundland and Labrador - updated
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Update: Here's the CBC television story on Agent Orange, complete with pictures. (Note - needs RealPlayer) It took a while to make it...
A modest proposal - updated
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[Left] Her Majesty's Penitentiary, St. John's Viewed from The Boulevard, looking south Amid some calls today for the provincial gove...
Sensitive Connie
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Thanks for the free link, Liam O'Brien . Note to Liam - 1. Relax: Everyone knows you are a Connie. You don't have to keep struggl...
18 October 2005
The strangest things Google (tm) can find
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In searching quickly for a picture of the Pen here in St. John's, I got this hit back from google(tm). It is a paper by eminent histori...
Where are the results?
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Further to the weekend Progressive Conservative Party convention, can anyone explain why the official party website contains only a thank...
17 October 2005
The I in t-e-a-m.
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In both his speech to the provincial Tory convention this weekend and in his guest editorial in The Independent , Danny Williams gave us a s...
Coming soon to NTV?
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I noticed it. One regular reader of these e-scribbles came to the same conclusion and flipped an e-mail over the weekend to point it out. He...
14 October 2005
Dress and heels, Rick? That would be the navy.
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Gordon O'Connor, Connie defence critic is a former Army type. Rick Mercer rips him a new one in this post about a planned trip to enter...
Viral marketing
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One of the latest marketing phenomena is so-called viral marketing. It's based on the simple idea of having your message carried for fr...
Air Canada sucks
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Air Canuck will be charging for the use of pillows and blankets, according to this Reuters story . Gone are the warm blankets and fluffy pil...
Put me in coach
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CNN covered a minor flap on Thursday with allegations that American soldiers involved in a brief question and answer session with George W. ...
As bizarre goes
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Yet another bizarre e-mail resulting from the posts on the Colonial Building. This one contained nothing more than a quote from Nicolo Machi...
Your United Nations money at work
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When the Smurfs were just a sickening kiddie fad, some of us used to joke about a campaign to eradicate the pesky aquamarine creatures accom...
Bad release; great video
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Anyone familiar with Black Hawk Down will recall the scene where one soldier removes some plates from his frag vest because they are too hea...
No Pink, White and Green for VO listeners
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VOCM ran one of their on-line questions of the day o Thursday asking people if they felt the province's flag should be changed to the Pi...
13 October 2005
Expert consultant tackles St. John's sewer problems
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St. John's city council calls in expert to tackle its water and sewer woes. [We wish!] "A sewer worker is like a brain surgeon. We...
Colonial Building - further thoughts
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A series of unusual e-mails yesterday prompted some further digging into the management plan for the Colonial Building, as discussed in Our ...
Hire George Murphy
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The feds are creating an office to monitor gas prices. The province's office is a mess. Simple solution: hire George Murphy . The St. J...
12 October 2005
Our plastic history
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For those who have visited capital cities anywhere in the western world, one is struck by the lengths to which nations go to preserve the vi...
Colonial Building Riot
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In the photo at left, thousands of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians rush to the Colonial Building to see the historic seat of government tur...
11 October 2005
Lobbing verbal bombshells in the blogger wars
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Amen, Cerberus . Being guilty of engaging in comment exchanges, I vow to stop. Period.
Local shipyards may win navy contract - amended
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Joint Support Ship [Provisional drawing, copyright Department of National Defence] According to Canadian Press , two of four bidders for a c...
10 October 2005
Norm Doyle - some curious thoughts
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The Spindy recycled a story this week about the St. John's airport authority looking to attract more "military tourist" traff...
Whither Harper?
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Predictably, the relatively small rise of the federal Conservative Party in some recent polls has been enough for Connie bloggers to trumpet...
08 October 2005
The flag for Newfoundland and Labrador
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This is sure to annoy the PWG crowd.
Sun reporters might make good frag vests
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The Ottawa Sun is to Ottawa what The Independent would like to be to St. John's. Those radio spots the Spindy is running on VOCM (at ...
07 October 2005
My buddy, the nitwit
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Verrryyyy interestink....but it doesn't make any sense. This from our Glorious Boor , Andy Wells, mayor of the ancient and until recentl...
Lawyers and blogs: a good start
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Try this article from the New York Times on the unusual number of lawyers and judges who either maintain blog sites or who read them. A fe...
Who really twisted arms, Steve?
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As predicted here , the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary came up empty in their investigation of alleged witness tampering in the trial of t...
NOIA recycles the offshore
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How many times will NOIA focus on Hebron and gas development as part of "new" possibilities for the offshore? I lost count of how ...
06 October 2005
Tough aircraft. Tougher pilot.
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Flip over to Strange Military and you'll find the full size version of these pictures. They show the starboard rear section of an Ameri...
S*P*I*E*S Like Us
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Six immigrants trying to enter the country illegall y? Or people trying to enter the country under assumed identities to act as spies? You ...
05 October 2005
Is City Hall for sale?
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The Montreal Gazette just finished a three-part story on problems in Montreal's municipal campaign financing. Here's the editorial...
04 October 2005
Today in Newfoundland and Labrador History
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Trenches at Suvla Bay, 1915 (Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador) PANL VA-37-3. Likely from the collection of Major R. Tait. T...
03 October 2005
The naked truth
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Ummm. Ok. I get the concept. But something tells me some of the heads of these federal lil Liberals in Quebec have been photoshopped onto o...
CBC lock-out over?
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While other blogs have been filled with the CBC lock-out, I have held fire for no particularly good reason. News today is that there is a ...
One post samba
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Since this blog from Sue Kelland seems dead, I guess we can just note it in passing. If it turns out to be a more active place, I'll li...
Baiting made easy
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And yet more from RGL Inc. Shorter post. Still misses the point(s): 1. I haven't endeavoured to rebut any of RGL's previous posts s...
Everything old is new again.
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Try this little observation from Campaign Central , about the renaissance of radio - specifically podcasting - as a means of political commu...
RGL goes ballistic
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Yet another lengthy post over at Responsible Government League commenting on yesterday's award. And true to form, Liam trots out yet an...
02 October 2005
And the award goes to...
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1. Reflexive Grit-Loather [RGL] Postings Inc. for the lengthy pseudo- rebuttal to The Dead End Kids . The post: - is long, in keeping wi...
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