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08 May 2007
Another view of The Crusade
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From Richard Gwyn in the Toronto Star : Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams has a point in his brawl with Prime Minister Stephe...
The King of Specious Reasoning
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Specious. Specious Reasoning. Truth is Clyde Wells would never have made such a dubious appointment in the first place. He understood fully ...
Federal Connie numbers dip
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SES says so and they oughta know. And guess what? Danny Williams had no impact on federal Conservative support, regardless of what some mai...
07 May 2007
Rio Tinto ripe for takeover
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Mining giant Rio Tinto may be ripe for a takeover bid according to an analyst for Citigroup . The de-rating of Rio Tinto for example, has op...
Where are they now?
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Alex Archila, former head of Chevron Canada has been running Madagascar Oil since July 2006. Hebron failure fallout? Probably not. They li...
Chevron looking to Singapore for possible expansion
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Chevron , one of the largest integrated energy companies in the world, may be looking at plans to further expand its business in Singapore. ...
India looks to attract "Big Oil"
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While some parts of the world are making it harder for oil companies to explore and develop, India is changing its regulatory policy to att...
CF in Afghanistan to get new mine protected vehicles
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The Canadian Forces will be taking delivery of 10 Buffalo and Coyote mine protected vehicles. The Buffalo is an engineering vehicle equip...
What makes news?
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Some people's travel, according to vocm.com . One thing: the Council of the federation met for one day on Monday, not the whole week as...
More fibre math
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Ok. How much is this fibre optic thing worth? The proponents and the provincial innovation minister have referred to $82 million. The deal a...
FPI deal possible, but no quotas for Rideout
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After a weekend meeting with the principals, federal fish minister Loyola Hearn is still optimistic a deal can be done. There just won't...
06 May 2007
On the horns of a nationalist dilemma
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Meanwhile, things in Newfoundland cannot be going too well, if columnists not normally given to doubting the Premier find themselves doing ...
Trudeau favours multi-lingualism over bilingualism
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Justin Trudeau told an audience of 2,000 teachers that he did not favour bilingualism, favouring instead trilingualism and quadrilingualism...
High flight
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Conservative cabinet minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn spent almost $150,000 on aircraft charters, yet filed expense claims showing no airfares...
05 May 2007
FP backgrounder on the local oil and gas industry
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From the Financial Post 's Claudia Cattaneo, a feature piece on the local oil and gas industry over a year after the Hebron failure. Yo...
Telling fantasy from reality in the offshore
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Premier Danny Williams is quoted by the Financial Post Saturday edition as saying that the provincial government is holding informal talks...
Conoco drilling delayed in Laurentian until at least 2009
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According to The Telegram , ConocoPhillips won't be drilling exploratory wells on its Laurentian basin properties until at least 2009 be...
04 May 2007
Williams "a bumptuous blowhard"
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The National Post weighs in: Even if Mr. Williams disagrees with all this, he is at the very least guilty of coming off as a bumptious blow...
Williams' Toronto speech dissected
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From Offal News . Clearly the needs of the personal trumps the partisan and the public policy. This is amateur politics.
Sound familiar?
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From a decade ago, a Canadian Press story on Brian Tobin's version of the Lower Churchill: Labrador's hydroelectric project is fated...
Persona sold to Bragg
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From the Nova Scotia Business Journal : Bragg Communications Inc. and Persona Communications Corp . announced on Friday that a purchase an...
Newfoundlanders and Labradorians in need of self-esteem
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It's not separation that we crave, but respect. Self-respect builds self-confidence, self-determination, and self-reliance, economically...
03 May 2007
Dump Denis
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First, there was the defence thing . But this ? And yes, Inkless said it first.
Hearn's complete statement
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Find it here , along with a link to the letter to Tom Rideout. I am concerned about any proposed solution that would see major allocations i...
Surprise: Hearn refuses to transfer quotas to provincial government
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Federal fisheries minister Loyola Hearn's letter today to his provincial counterpart Tom Rideout, right, puts the blocks to the provinc...
A tale of two vidies
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Consider the youtube popularity of this video launching the province's awe-inspiring brand compared to this other video . At time of po...
Mercury astronaut Wally Schirra dies at age 84
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Wally Schirra , the only astronaut to fly each of the first three American spacecraft died on Wednesday in California. [Photo, right: the-ro...
Blind, deaf, mute and no sense of smell
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I am amused by the Opposition House Leader’s newly-acquired sense of smell. We do not do things by smell over here; we do them the right way...
Offshore drillers profits rise on demand surge
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Operators of offshore drill rigs are reporting substantial increases in profit in the first quarter of 2007 based on surging demand for rig...
02 May 2007
Decima maybe not so rogue
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Decima's latest poll results show the Conservatives and Liberals in a dead heat. Maybe Decima's r esults the last time they reported...
Province to leave lucrative quotas with companies
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I never professed to be a business person, Mr. Speaker, have not got a business clue in my body, never paid a payroll in my life, but even m...
Council of Federation struggles to be relevant
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The Council of the Federation, essentially the provincial premiers meeting as they always have, is trying to fend off criticism that its on...
01 May 2007
GCB launches Terra Nova program to explore new worlds of music
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The Gower Community Band of St. John’s celebrates its 10th anniversary this month with two special performances and the establishment of new...
Domain check
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The province's health promotion website, gohealthy.ca . Great concept. Great execution. Who owns the domain ? Not the provincial governm...
Fair deal of bureaucratic gobbledygook
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Update: Sometime after the original post went live, the according2.ca crowd wiped out the website entirely. There's now just a white p...
Chavez seizes last private oil fields
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Shortly after midnight Monday/Tuesday, Venezuelan soldiers moved in and state oil company workers in hard hats raised the Venezuelan flag ov...
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