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24 May 2006
Breaking up FPI
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Curse Hansard for being unconscionably slow posting the transcripts of debates in the House of Assembly. The stuff from last Thursday night...
Goose Bay battalion is crapola: I knew it!
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While it may be premium content - i.e. they want you to pay for it - the Ottawa Citizen is reporting today as I contended for months now: t...
23 May 2006
The Rule of Opposites
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Premier Danny Williams is one of those politicians who make it easy to understand what he is up to. Sometimes you just have to look at the ...
Definition!
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1. Town hall meeting anywhere else in the civilized world: - an open, democratic meeting of residents of a community in which all resident...
20 May 2006
Enemy at the gates of the park
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Ah yes, the Glorious Victoria Day weekend. In Newfoundland, it is the time of the year when people who would never think of going camping in...
18 May 2006
Everything old is new again, part deux
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Danny Williams is beseiged by problems with the fishery, for which he has no solutions. He is fighting, as he puts it, a lot of battles on ...
Pulling it out: Williams and the fishery
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This week Newfoundlanders and Labradorians saw proof that Premier Danny Williams and his administration have no idea what to do with the fis...
17 May 2006
Newfoundland and Labrador Hydra
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Trumpeted by the Williams administration as the key piece of legislation for this session of the House of Assembly, the amendments [Annex A...
Screw you. Screw me?
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There's childish and pissy. Then there's the Prime Minister's reaction to having one of his nominees rejected by a parliamentar...
16 May 2006
The old in-out, in-out
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Census day has prompted some public discussion in Newfoundland and Labrador of out-migration. Some think the province's population wil...
Don't mention the war
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John Cleese is doing his bit to bring peace to the World, being held this year in Germany. Among other things, he's helped pen a song ...
Distraction
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In the House of Assembly yesterday , Premier Danny Williams talked about changes to the legislation governing Fishery Products International...
15 May 2006
Everything old is new again
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Smallwood was not known as a "team player" during his two decades as Premier and he habitually initiated policy on his own without...
Lower Churchill: CBC News in depth
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Check out this little piece on the announcement of the go-it-alone option for the Lower Churchill.
14 May 2006
Where's the rest of it?
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Last November, Memorial University's Harris Centre released a report on federal government presence in Newfoundland and Labrador. The ...
12 May 2006
Andy, Terra Nova and the problem of a little knowledge
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Interviewed on the St. John's CBC Radio Morning Show on Thursday, St. John's mayor Andy Wells made it clear that his opening remark...
This is Ottawa, Loyola
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For months now Newfoundlanders and Labradorians have witnessed the provincial fish minister, Tom Rideout, effectively working without a poli...
10 May 2006
The last remake of beau risque: la fruit n'est pas mur
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Action democratique (ADQ) leader Mario Dumont thinks it is time to open the constitutional file again, with talk of renewing Rene Levesque&...
Lower Churchill solo act could end in shock
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Konrad Yakabuski has an interesting column in today's Globe and Mail on Danny Williams' plans to got it alone on the Lower Churchil...
More Lower Churchill information
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A couple of weeks ago, Craig Westcott published an interesting summary of a talk by Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro vice president Gilbert B...
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