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09 January 2006
Harper backpedals; O'Brien buys a tractor to shove(l) harder
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Note: Scroll to the bottom to get to the new bit. As predicted here a couple of days ago, loyal local Connie Liam O'Brien is defendin...
08 January 2006
Voting records
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Since Loyola Hearn is especially proud of the number of times he has risen to speak in the commons, it is useful heading over to howdtheyvot...
Memo to Bourque
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Before Bourque posts another piece of tripe about Normand Lester's book and Pierre Pettigrew, the old boy might want to have a look at...
Connie reality check on finances
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An assessment produced by CBC shows that the Conservative campaign promises will cost taxpayers on the order of $66 billion over the next f...
Norm Doyle: No socon silence in Newfoundland and Labrador
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With a tip of the festive hat to Mark at nottawa , let's flip over to this story from the Halifax Herald. A couple of Connie contende...
Liam caves on child care.
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Well sort of. He caves, alright, but the dear old fellow will: 1. insist there was no change; and 2. this is the same position as the one...
07 January 2006
Harper: Up is Down for taxes
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CBC is reporting that Stephen Harper admits he will raise taxes on lower income Canadians, if elected, but feels that his own plan will actu...
Bourque berks - misses links to Connies
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In his seemingly limitless efforts to slander anyone associated with the Liberal Party, Bourque has decided to attack not only Pierre Petti...
Just for curiosity...
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This election a couple of seat projectors have come up on line. They are linked down the right hand column, under Election 2006. The hill an...
Local News Notes for Saturday
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1. Canadian Press (CP) has picked up the Harper/spy agency story . The Telegram is running a CP wire story on the issues including quote...
Harper backpedals on commitment to custodial management
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Conservative leader Stephen Harper is backpeddling on his commitment to extend Canadian fisheries jurisdiction beyond the 200 mile limit wit...
Tories to hike taxes - on lowest income earners
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Conservative candidate Jason Kenny confirmed Friday that the federal Conservative Party would raise taxes on low income earners. That's ...
06 January 2006
Can the Anti-Circ Party be far behind?
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This story, from Canadian Press, is just too funny. Why can't we have candidates like this one across Canada? I mean really. OTTAWA (CP)...
Harper's reply to Williams - the full text.
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Following is a copy of Stephen Harper's response to a letter from Danny Williams. The original Williams letter can be found here , unde...
Santa Harper answers Danny's letter - breaking
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Steve's answer to Danny is in. I have a copy. I'll post it ASAP. For those who have been following the list of bullshit battalions H...
Harper to create Canadian CIA
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Stephen Harper will create a Canadian spy organization like the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to collect information on threats to Canad...
05 January 2006
Williams to repeat strategic economic plan
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After two years in office, Premier Danny Williams announced today that he is assigning Doug House to conduct a review of government's e...
Local Connie TV script leaked
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Following is the script for television commercial Connie candidate Loyola Hearn is expected to release next week. Norm Doyle has Danny Willi...
I keep hearing strong voices
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Norm Doyle, Loyola Hearn, Paul Antle and now Siobhan Coady are all seeking to be a strong voice in Ottawa. These are pictures of voters in S...
Not one isotopic teaspoon!
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So how come Danny Williams isn't leading the charge for full and complete processing of uranium before it leaves Labrador? Possible sec...
Leader's Debate - Come watch, join in and support local debate union
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The Newfoundland and Labrador Speech and Debate Union (SDU) is convening a panel of judges to evaluate the performance of the party leaders ...
04 January 2006
Sue Kelland Dyer - come clean on your political lobbying
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When will some intrepid reporter ask Sue Kelland Dyer, local political gadfly and radio call-in regular, what she was doing on Stephen Harpe...
Connie won't answer for possible privacy violations
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With a hat tip to Marks'Random Campaign Musings for providing the links, comes the story of Connie incumbent Cheryl Gallant (Renfrew-N...
Battalions for everyone - the saga continues
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From cbc.ca, this story of Steve Harper promising to increase the defence presence at the Bagotville, Quebec. Seems having the only CF-18 ...
Reprint: a campaign of pork and entitlement
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In light of CBC's candidate's debate last night, I thought it timely to reprint a post from last month. The original title was "...
15 minutes that defined a political campaign
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For those who want to see a political campaign that promises to be very interesting, go to cbc.ca/nl and check out the evening news' pol...
03 January 2006
Loyola Hearn stands...for Party before province
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People don't have such short memories, Loyola. Remember this CBC story from May 2005? It was at the start of the campaign to get Hea...
Lame-assed Loyola
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Sitting here working, I just caught one of Connie candidate Loyola Hearn's radio spots on Open Line. Now first of all the putz just spen...
30 down - 19, 970 to go
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The quest continues to see if I can down 20, 000 cups of coffee in a year in order to accumulate the 400 bucks Steve Harper, the economist, ...
02 January 2006
Connies go negative - big time
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Bravo nottawa . He found the second, really negative Connie attack ad that has been running on a couple of specialty channels. It's one ...
A year of Bond-ing
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Today marks the first anniversary of the Bond Papers. One year ago, in the midst of the offshore talks, I started this blog as a means of co...
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