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15 August 2007
History repeating itself
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In 2005/2006, economist Wade Locke projected provincial revenues from Hebron using the existing royalty regime. He assumed an average pric...
Most expensive uni in Canada
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So much for finance minister Tom Marshall's insistance that making a Grenfell College a university will have only marginal cost implica...
14 August 2007
The Hebron Gambit
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Listen to what Premier Danny Williams told reports in a scrum on Saturday. Then consider these observations on resumption of Hebron talks:...
The absence of a strategy is not a strategy
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Budgetting to spend every nickel that comes in, while putting token amounts toward reducing the highest per capita debt in the country isn&...
Cabinet Shuffle: a summer yawner
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O'Connor's out of defence and moves to national revenue. Peter Mackay , DDS moves into the minister's suite at Disneyland on th...
12 August 2007
A teapot for the probos...probisc...nose
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A truly creative pitch for a truly creative product. Pet rocks are child's play compared to persuading grown men and women to shove por...
The newest newspaper trend?
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Outsourced editting . Already being used in ireland, outsourcing the editors job now hits the New Zealand Herald . Update 14 Aug 07 : Offal...
11 August 2007
The Summer of Flood
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Not to be outdone, Quebec premier Jean Charest is getting in on the flood recovery thing, promising to call out the army to help repair dama...
SOL Day 46: Other people's money
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The public sector must be the engine of votes. Danny Williams is promising to reward public sector employees - presumably with hefty pay hik...
10 August 2007
Hebron: be cautious
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News that Hebron talks are back on should be greeted with an abundance of healthy caution if not outright scepticism. For one thing, take a...
09 August 2007
Beating yourself to the punch
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So how is it Danny Williams started on a national energy plan two years after starting the provincial one and he still finished the national...
In defence of blogs
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Who'd-a-thunk it? The bastion of the mainstream print media in Newfoundland and Labrador leaps to the defence of blogs, specifically th...
08 August 2007
Newfoundland and the Great War: the beginnings
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On August 7, 1914, the Newfoundland cabinet met at Government House in an extraordinary session prompted by the outbreak of war with Germany...
07 August 2007
Security concerns
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Security for the Premier and his family (including the family home) is the responsibility of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary. If it isn&...
Stunned is as...well... yet again
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Queen's Counsel is largely an honorary designation, but it is supposed to indicate that the laweyer wearing silk has a knowledge of the ...
06 August 2007
Working the Hill the smart way
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Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro has retained Summa Strategies to help with federal funding assistance on the Lower Churchill and on issues ...
05 August 2007
On being all wet after a flood
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Give a listen first of all to this exercise [ram audio file] in how many times you can say "y'know" in the answer to the firs...
Astraeus cans London flights
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Having only started offering the service in May, 2007, Astraeus announced last week it would be cancelling its twice weekly flights from S...
Foote wins Grit nod in federal riding
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Judy Foote will carry the Liberal banner in the riding of Random-Burin-St. George's in the next federal election. -srbp-
Rideout defends 5K gift of public cash
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No surprise. Deputy premier Tom Rideout thinks it's just fine to hand out gifts of public money to groups in the province from money set...
NB studying 1000 MW nuke at Lepreau
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Atomic Energy of Canada Limited will conduct a study - at its own expense - of installing a second 1,000 megawatt nuclear powered electricit...
04 August 2007
This Danny-Hugo Thing, Part 2
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Hugo Chavez hangs out with decrepit dictators like Fidel Castro, right . Danny Williams gets his picture taken with Miss Universe Canada, l...
Saskatoon: Gateway to the Orient
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From May, 2007, funding in Saskatchewan linked to the Pacific Gateway. Did geography get altered under Canada's New Government? -srbp-
This Danny-Hugo thing
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Another reason why Danny isn't Hugo. Hugo gets internationally respected actors to visit his country, left . [Photo: AP, Howard Yanes] D...
The value of research, yet again
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Turns out Iceland isn't such a paradise after all. -srbp-
Separated at Birth 5
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Updated: 20:45 hrs UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, left . [Photo: CTVglobemedia ] Monty Python alumnus, Terry Jones, right . Alfred E. Neum...
SOL: The Saturday morning kiddies edition
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Updated: see below Imagine if by some miracle Kevin Heffernan won the St. John's East Tory nomination and then took the easiest of easy...
03 August 2007
That didn't take long: flood flap feedback
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From the National Post' s house blog . The second paragraph is a stark reminder of why the flag thing was as dumb a political move as an...
SOL Emergency Photo Op Edition: The ersatzkrieg continues
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Is Danny Williams pissed because the Prime Minister visited parts of the country devastated by recent flooding or, as this quote suggests, ...
The myths debunked - once again
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In a post taking issue with the opinion of two economists at the Universite de Laval , the self-styled Hydroqueen makes some claims. Let...
02 August 2007
Avoiding other people's mistakes
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There's a compelling point in the middle of this 1991 article from the Montreal Gazette : "... Hydro-Quebec is losing in a big way ...
Promise made? When?
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Where exactly in the Danny Williams' 2003 campaign platform is there any reference to creating a second university at Corner Brook? Th...
Unfortunate choice of parking
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Somewhere in downtown St. John's. The meat is that fresh. -srbp-
Regatta Day, 2007
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The start of a women's race at the 189th annual Royal St. John's Regatta, held today. -srbp-
PMO bucklers-up again
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Locally there are Hickey-ups, that's a political mistake properly called a a f*%ck-up, named after transportation minister John Hickey. ...
A comms Hickey-up
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Ryan Cleary at the Independent must be kicking himself for turning on his former researcher, Sue the talk show maven and self-styled Hydroq...
01 August 2007
The ease of governing
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"Mr. Crosbie had his day in government, and he made his decisions in that time - that was a long time ago. Now we are the government a...
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