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17 February 2008
I spy...
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a Hickey-up. Oh, and another trough. News outlets across the province are reporting provincial cabinet minister John Hickey's latest...
I spy a trough...
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I spy with my little eye a trough into which desperate politicians root for pork and votes. Just five days after Transport Canada forces t...
Oh Lord, shoot me now.
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The latest utterances on the breast cancer inquiry, courtesy of Voice of the Cabinet Minister . Danny Williams respects the decision. We...
16 February 2008
Where was the provincial inspection?
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While there has been some public kerfuffle over the announcement that bridges along the former railway will be closed pending further engine...
The External Review Reports decision
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While this will eventually make it to the Internet in other legal databases, here's a copy of the decision rendered by Mr. Justice Wayn...
Government Blackberries directing EHA media work?
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Eastern Health Authority's (EHA)willingness to get past the "peer review" fiasco lasted less than 24 hours apparently. Discu...
15 February 2008
Taking lessons from Danny
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Seems Ed Stelmach has taken a leaf from Danny Williams' book by appointing a raft of Tory partisans to positions in the Alberta election...
Silence isn't golden
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Neither the province's recycling board nor the environment minister will talk to CBC's Zach Goudie about paper recycling in St. Joh...
14 February 2008
How magnanimous
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Mr. Justice Wayne Dymond ruled today that two reviews conducted of Eastern Health labs are not peer reviews or quality assurance reports an...
13 February 2008
Oh, the spin of it all
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Voice of the Cabinet Minister has an interesting take on Danny Williams' decision today to reverse his position on Andy Wells. Where be...
Andy, Danny, the PUB and polls
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Andy Wells won't be staying on as mayor of St. John's when he takes on a new job as chairman and chief executive officer of the publ...
11 February 2008
He'll be "environmentally efficient"
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Premier Danny Williams was confronted today with another question about his plan to appoint Andy Wells to head the public utilities board at...
Spot the teacher
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There's a decent profile of a fledgling politician in the latest edition of the Advertiser . Many people don't know what the job is...
Did he really say that?
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We believe that a strengthened public service will ensure that individuals are being hired on their merits as opposed to who they know in go...
10 February 2008
...thy father's spirit
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By the clicking of the thumbs, something wicked this way comes. There is a ghost at the old CBC building on the Parkway, so it seems. The gh...
Time to worry: CBC and Indy both omit big story
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Two different people with no connection to each other posed the same question to your humble e-scribbler yesterday: Why hasn't CBC menti...
Separated at birth: the Gong Show version
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City councillor Gerry Colbert, right , who is rumoured to be starring in an off-off-off-Broadway run of Duck Soup next fall, as well as hos...
09 February 2008
Conoco hints all not well in local oil patch
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ConocoPhillips is working to counteract the impression left in a National Post story Friday that it was unhappy with the provincial governm...
SAC one of largest investments under new program
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SAC Mfg, the defunct natural gas company, received one of the largest provincial government investments under its commercialization program,...
08 February 2008
PUB job competition: what happened to it?
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Last summer, the Public Service Commission (PSC) held a competition for the position of chief executive officer of the public utilities boar...
Andy Wells and the conflicts of interest
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Surely no one who has been following the strange case of St. John's Mayor Andy "Two Jobs" Wells was surprised at the revelatio...
Fed agency suing SAC for loan
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Transcontinental's Rob Antle reported today that the federal Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) is suing SAC Manufacturing over ...
Doing nothing to save the national emblem
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A woodland caribou population in serious trouble. The overall drop is from over 90,000 animals to just under 40,000 in a little over a deca...
07 February 2008
The tale of the tape
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Cash register tape, as well as the stuff pouring out of adding machines in both the Clinton and Obama campaigns for the Democratic nominatio...
06 February 2008
As innovative as a 55 gallon oil drum
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Since we first introduced you to SAC Manufacturing - here and here - the Telegram has taken up the story and added interesting new detai...
Fail to plan...
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Plan to fail. It's an old military axiom. That's why it was surprising when CanWest called last week to discuss a story they were w...
The inevitable headline
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First this. Watch next for Jack Harris to announce he'll run for the Dippers, which will make the next headline, followed by the next on...
04 February 2008
Possible privacy breach at MUN
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As many as 150 Memorial University students are being contacted concerning a possible leak of their personal information resulting from the ...
02 February 2008
The Do Nothing Department in a Do Nothing Administration
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in American politics, there used to be the Know Nothings. They were a group of native-born Americans who had a problem with immigrants yet...
01 February 2008
Missing company has half million in provincial cash
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The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador invested $500,000 in a natural gas-related company in 2006 which has apparently disappeared in t...
It's the software's fault
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Apparently the latest provincial government InfoSec breach can be blamed on the software , specifically a file sharing program known as Lime...
Gov Comm 101: How to manage crisis spin
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1. Write a news release which deliberately buries the real news so far down the page that reporters are likely to miss it. 2. Omit key ...
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