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20 February 2006
Welcoming Lono to the Land O' Blogs
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It's taken a while but local commentator/consultant/ranter Simon Lono has joined the Land O' Canadian Blogs. Never one to go at anyt...
Barry short-circuited process in Harbour Breton
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It hasn't made it to the local CBC website (cbc.ca/nl), but Here and Now , the local supper hour show reported on Friday that there were...
McDonald's lawsuits start
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It didn't take long for the first lawsuits to be filed against McDonald's for failure to disclose their fries contain dairy and wh...
18 February 2006
Political action needed to save fishery says expert
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Check Mark Hume's piece in the Globe on the need for political action, not more science to save the world's ocean fisheries. Hume q...
Voyage of the Damned: Harbour Breton, Danny Williams and the coming fishery crisis
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Danny Williams - who this week said he was damned no matter what he did on the Harbour Breton file - can only blame himself and perhaps his ...
What about Liberal hacks?
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The Connies will be appointing a supreme court justice from the list compiled under the Martin administration just before the last electio...
17 February 2006
Hearn to hold breath, turn blue to fight foreign overfishing
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Loyola Hearn, Connie fish minister and chronic proponent of something called custodial management is finally starting to talk about the toug...
More problems to come for Williams
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The downside for Danny Williams is that he is likely to have more episodes like the one recently where he said one thing about the feds, Lo...
15 February 2006
Not lovin' Micky D's latest disclosure
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As the parent of a child with celiac disease , news that McDonald's restaurants previously failed to disclose the presence of wheat deri...
For those in peril
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On the night of February 14/15 1982, the semi-submersible drill rig Ocean Ranger sank offshore Newfoundland and Labrador with a loss of 84 ...
14 February 2006
Cheney jokes
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Veep Dick Cheney's skill with a shotgun has spawned some jokes. 1. My favourite one liner so far is the one that hold that it's stil...
Khaki Tim's in Kandahar
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The men and women of Canada's forces overseas apparently are clamouring for a Tim Horton's to be set up where they are. Like Kandaha...
13 February 2006
Recall Harper or RSVP = roflmao
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Radio call-in maven Sue has decided that after campaigning vigorously for Stephen Harper she is wrong. She has started a group to recall the...
Hebron, the premier and getting a deal
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While a great many people across the province are cheering on Danny Williams in his latest fight on behalf of this place with someone not fr...
No seat at int'l table: Harper fails on another promise
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Provinces will not be getting seats at international tables, as Stephen Harper promised during the recent campaign. Wow. That's a sur...
09 February 2006
Hearn calls for hand-over of Hibernia shares
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So it's an old release, but there's no indication Connie fish minister has changed his position on giving the Government of Newfound...
Two degrees of separation, Newfoundland and Labrador style
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Following is some simple background information on the project announced today involving a new company that will explore the feasibility of...
End fed jobs leaving Ottawa - latest Connie platform dump
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Danny Williams and Andy Wells will be upset to discover that the new federal government wants to stop the practice of shipping federal jobs ...
08 February 2006
Flash: Ryan Cleary to spin for Loyola Hearn
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Wait for the official announcement. Some people should never come across to the other side of the street. I guess that's why he mused a ...
Province shut out of second tier Harper cabinet
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Hot on the heels of Norm Doyle's ouster as Connie caucus chair comes word that not a single Connie member of parliament from this provin...
Norm Doyle fired: democracy in action
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Norm Doyle, once Connie caucus chair has been punted from his job in favour of one Rahim Jaffer. Unlike in other caucuses where the chairman...
07 February 2006
The old school fish minister
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Newfoundlanders and Labradorians heard this evening from the new federal fisheries minister, Loyola Hearn, courtesy of two interviews with l...
Risk and reward on the east coast oil and gas frontier
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Rob Strong, one of the senior figures in the Newfoundland and Labrador oil industry told CBC Radio that the local oil patch is looking forwa...
Who ya gonna listen to?
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There's an old joke Rodney Dangerfield used to tell about one of his first agents, a stereotypical New York cigar-chomper with a seedy o...
Equalization changes: Williams and Harper/Sullivan compared
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Provincial finance minister Loyola Sullivan is claiming that Stephen Harper's proposals for Equalization reform are perfect for this pro...
So lemme get this straight...
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In his first cabinet, Stephen Harper appointed a party insider from Quebec as minister of the chief portfolio for pork and sent the guy to t...
06 February 2006
So much for senate reform...
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and a bunch of other things. David Emerson crossed the floor. That's an interesting way for a Stephen Harper to start a new government g...
Williams to Harper: Gimme your lunch money, dork.
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VOCM's version of what Danny Williams said in the genuine Great White North isn't what Canadian press is reporting. VOCM makes it s...
03 February 2006
30 million and two reasons to miss Brian Tobin
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Courtesy of Craig Westcott and The Express comes another reason to miss Brian Tobin: his hand in shagging up the provincial fishery, as not...
Of matching and magic
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The lack of candidates for the provincial Liberal leadership is now a subject for some media attention, as witnessed by David Cochrane's...
02 February 2006
The dark side
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Newbie members of parliament are busily getting their bearings in Ottawa in anticipation of taking up their new responsibilities within the ...
Hearn + fish minister = potential problem
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If Loyola Hearn gets to be fisheries minister in a Stephen Harper cabinet, there will likely be a problem. For one thing, if Hearn gives in...
Not one isotopic teaspoon, I say
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A newly discovered uranium deposit in Labrador turns out to be larger than initially thought. I say in all seriousness that government shou...
01 February 2006
There are 30 million reasons to miss Tobin. What's yours?
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Some of us will be mourning Brian Tobin's decision to stay out of politics but not for the reasons his old party pres gave to local CBC ...
Hearn off national radar, ditto Newfoundland and Labrador
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Loyola Hearn, predicted by some to be John Efford's replacement in Ottawa, is no t on Don Martin's list of the top 15 picks for the...
Democracy in action...at nottawa
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Head over to Mark's Random Musings and take part in his Great Experiment in E-Democracy. He's looking for some input on when the nat...
Williams' honeymoon over?
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The provincial auditor general John Noseworthy released a detailed - and damning - report yesterday into the provincial government's adm...
and they dissed Lono's Code of Conduct
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In light of the ongoing fiasco over handing themselves a hefty raise by breaking their own rules, St. John's city council has likely cau...
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