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14 April 2008
Suspended animation
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers and The Persuasion Business are in suspended animation effective today. There will be no new posts for the ...
13 April 2008
The other foot
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Courtesy of Labradore , a sampling of some of the misinformation and racist attitudes prevalent in the province. Interestingly enough, th...
NAPE's real agenda? Just follow the money.
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Public sector union boss Carol Furlong is emotional - shocked and dismayed - at the Liberal and New Democrat opposition for voicing an opin...
12 April 2008
More police probes into House of Assembly than previously known?
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Okay, so Auditor General John Noseworthy doesn't think he's muzzled , but are there more police investigations into the House of Ass...
Swantanamo Bay?
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Animal rights activists are targeting the City of Ottawa's housing for its swans. Cost for upgrades: half a million bucks. h/t to F...
11 April 2008
CKW 4 SCC
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The facebook group to join the campaign. The Toronto Star blog mention. -srbp-
Changing the face of the news release
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Compare this Ontario government news release with this example from the NewfoundlandLabrador government. The traditional news release ev...
Lords of the blog
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Some members of the House of Lords are co-operating on a blog. The official description: Lords of the Blog is an experimental projec...
10 April 2008
Breast cancer patient receives notice of re-test...this week
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All patients have been notified. Well, maybe not all . And there was never a need to set up a toll free line for patients to check, just...
Provincial government limits patient use of own health information
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Lorraine Michael raised an interesting question in the legislature today about regulations governing patient records held by the province&...
Wells for SCC
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He turned 70 last fall but he's still in great shape and his mind is as sharp as ever. Who better for the Supreme Court of Canada tha...
BondFlash: Memo to National Media
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Today's best scrum opportunity . -srbp-
Timely blog discoveries
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Comprehension , the Public Relations Society of America blog. crisisblogger , the blog for crisis managers and communicators. -tpb/srbp-
The Potemkin Cabinet
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Newfoundlanders and Labradorians must surely be wondering about the government which they support through their tax dollars. It does not f...
And on the fourth day, he headed out of the province...
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The announcement from the Premier's Office is old news for people who read Bond Papers . -srbp-
Math tudors beware
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A blog and a mission to stamp out typos in America. Readers know there are a few typos around these parts. With any luck, they don'...
and on the third day, the Premier had no control of anything...
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Wednesday turned out to be a day of bizarre contradictions. Consider, for example, that on Monday the Premier insisted he took full respon...
09 April 2008
Civics 101 for government employees
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Given the layers of approval provincial government news releases go through, the glaring error in this one speaks to a problem with what pu...
And on the second day, it was more of the same...
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[ Update: CBC has provided audio of Question Period in the House of Assembly. This one is a ram file for Monday's QP . The Hansard tr...
08 April 2008
And on the first day, he was highly agitated...
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Premier Danny Williams didn't look very refreshed from his extended southern vacation when he faced questions in the House of Assembly. ...
07 April 2008
Some uncomfortable truths
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Some years ago, as the story goes, one crowd of local political staffers branded some of the crowd from another party that ousted them as th...
Food for thought on LNG: a matter of supply
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There are 60 liquid natural gas regasification projects proposed for North America, while the market will likely support only 10 to 12. On...
"I can't wait to see the day when we don't get a dollar."
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One of the latest documents to emerge from the Halifax-based Atlantic Institute for Market Studies challenges many of the assumptions abou...
05 April 2008
Yep, it's on the Internet.
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Too bad Joan Dawe thinks otherwise. Crisis response isn't rocket science. That doesn't mean it's easy but half the battle is...
03 April 2008
Revisiting the Gorge of Eternal Peril
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An e-mail from a seasoned political observer prompted a second look at a post original made at Persuasion Business in the summer of 2007. ...
At the end of the day
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...it is very concerning that we do not understand the story, and that people are starting to talk to us, but at the end of the day... Lou...
02 April 2008
A pattern of behaviour
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Ross Wiseman. Ross gets an angry phone call or calls from Florida. He's not alone, most likely. Plenty of people are getting calls. ...
Healthcare Crisis Public Relations - what makes a crisis?
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While the specific details of a crisis may be unique, the fact that crises occur and need to be properly managed is a well accepted notion. ...
01 April 2008
Implausible deniability
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Briefing notes. Briefing books. The Cameron Inquiry on Hormone Receptor testing is hearing about briefing notes for ministers. There a...
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