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20 August 2008
Hebron announcement notes
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1. ExxonMobil drove the bus. Well, when it comes to project timings the big player called the shots. The companies were ready to rumble...
"counter-spinning negativity"
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Now, by any logical process, in order for there to be counter-spin, there has to be spin first. This is not a chicken and egg thing; very...
Groundwork: The Hebron MOU deconstructed, as announced
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To help in assessing the final Hebron deal, here are some notes drafted for a Bond Papers post last year: Bottom line: Bond Papers sai...
19 August 2008
When the last seam is welded, Part Deux
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Here's another project that has proven more valuable in the hype than in the actual delivery of it, completed. As with the second refi...
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
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As we told you some time ago, the Hebron agreement was signed sometime last month but - for some completely inexplicable reason - the publi...
18 August 2008
Only sheer political genius...
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would think of using Kevin O'Brien as the stunt dummy for a demonstration of "fall protection" gear . Joe Clarke almost imp...
17 August 2008
The New Idiot Box
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A few days ago, your humble e-scribbler was wandering through a second-hand book store he used to frequent in Kingston 20-odd years ago. T...
When comedy is trusted as news
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From nyt.com, a profile of Jon Stewart and The Daily Show : When Americans were asked in a 2007 poll by the Pew Research Center for the Pe...
15 August 2008
Universal Translator revealed
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When it comes to federal politics, reporters and other observers sometimes misunderstand the words the Premier uses. It's really very...
An old Connie ploy
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Create a dysfunctional situation where one didn't have to exist and then crusade to fix it. It's a bit like backing a dodgy prop...
Oil prices still on the decline
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With some renewed strength in the American dollar, coupled with decreased demand, the price of crude oil for September delivery closed the ...
14 August 2008
Some in-out scheme highlights
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While the conventional media have been fixated on the Connie's deliberate effort to undermine parliamentary committees by co-ordinating ...
Big changes coming at Grand Falls paper mill
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Changing global economic circumstances for the paper industry have been pressing on the industry in Newfoundland and Labrador for years. T...
Serious lobster conservation projects in New Brunswick
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Homarus Inc is just one example of what the Maritime Fishermen's Union is doing to improve lobster stocks in the waters around New Brun...
And then there's the scandal at Tammany on Gower
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This Telegram editorial should be enough to cause someone to intervene here - someone wake DaveDenine - or for the voters to turf out the e...
So where's the in-out scam in the local headlines?
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Odd, dontcha think, that the local media haven't done much with the Conservative party in-out advertising scheme during the last electio...
Gas went up?
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How much more evidence do we need that the petroleum products pricing office is a massive scam that must be ended? Gasoline prices in Newf...
13 August 2008
Hunter-gatherers association reinvents lobster pot with prov gov cash
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On the face of it, this looks like a great project: a bunch of provincial government cash to pay a bunch of lobster fishermen to track thei...
The changes at Humber Valley
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1. Layoff of 40 staff , as Newfound NV looks to stick to its core business lines. 2. A brief profile of the new boss at Newfound NV. ...
Some Harper observations
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1. Anyone else notice that the not-campaigning Stephen Harper spent all his time in Fabian Manning's Avalon riding? Seems a bit odd ...
'The national interest" and marketing imperatives: a jarring symmetry of excuses
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Submitted for your consideration: “I think the viewers should be able to understand that, in the national interest, for the perception of t...
Memorial University crisis: it just keeps getting worse
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Danny Williams, former Rhodent, should have known that academics are not ones to take his usual blather as if it were gospel. No surprise ...
Nothing says federal election, the Harper version
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When the Connie head honcho comes to town bearing public cash, you know there's an election on the horizon. Related: Clyde Jackman may...
12 August 2008
Some political creativity
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An Obama mash-up [tip of the straw sun hat to John Gushue ]: And then there's a Tony Blair one done before Blair resigned:
Bring in the Auditor General
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While the crowd at Tammany on Gower are fighting over the recent firing of an internal auditor, they are missing a fairly obvious solution ...
Come by Chance expansion in works
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It is far easier to expand an existing refinery than to try a greenfield project. That's something Bond Papers has contended since NL...
The Great Government Consumer Rip-Off
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The 2003 general election did not herald a new approach, a new era in public policy or much "new" of any other sort except elites....
11 August 2008
When the last seam is welded...
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Passing environmental approvals is one thing, but as the NLRC refinery project showed, there's a lot more to building a greenfield proje...
Oil prices continue fall
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Crude oil hit US$114 a barrel Monday on the New York Mercantile Exchange down from the record high of $147 set only a month ago. The Mond...
New headquarters and military info system for CF by 2014
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The Canadian Forces will have a new operational headquarters complete with an integrated information management system by 2014, according to...
06 August 2008
Pull the other one, the MUN version
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His latest version of events doesn't match any of the other versions, including his own earlier version. There is no effort to pull bac...
04 August 2008
Cameron Inquiry deadline extended to March 1, 2009
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The order-in-council was gazetted on July 28, 2008 with absolutely no mention from the provincial government. The commission must hand i...
Eddy shoulda bought tickets
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From the voice of the cabinet minister , last week, as the Memorial University crisis ramped up: Premier Danny Williams has not been av...
What happens after every climax?
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Quick. Without looking it up or asking your own yaks-milk-is-pink fountain of otherwise useless information: 1. Name the three astronau...
03 August 2008
Oh yeah, Pam's fried...just like a whole raft more
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Telegram editor Pam Frampton has been writing about the Memorial University thing for some time now. Her column on Sunday is not for the...
The pack politics of ambition
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Politics is a strange thing. There's a lot of individualism and ego but at the same time there's some really obvious group behavio...
02 August 2008
The market for oil and gas support industries
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The real key to long-term economic benefit from oil and gas is not in revenues flowing to a state-owned oil company, but from the developmen...
The best and the worst
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From the Star Phoenix (Saskatoon), a perspective on the province and its politics: It did not present a very becoming picture of the p...
Internet Explorer problems when loading? Try the mirror Bond Papers.
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For the past 24 hours, some people have been reporting problems when trying to access Bond Papers using Internet Explorer . This only app...
A small but significant distinction
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The Telegram's Russell Wangersky gives cabinet some good advice this rainy Saturday in order to avoid what he describes as "bonehe...
The Looking Glass Cabinet
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"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone," it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more...
01 August 2008
Into the deep
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The provincial government's crisis with Memorial University got just that much deeper today. Op-ed pieces in the province's larges...
Why Joan and Danny rejected Eddy
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Eddy Campbell has withdrawn from the presidential competition . His statement is an eloquent defence of the university in a time of crisis...
Heresy!
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Jeffrey Simpson starkly describes the issues and problems tied up in the Memorial University crisis. Once the usual suspects find out abo...
53K in ACOA cash for Lego contest
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Where to begin? The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency , originally set up to foster economic development, has dropped a total of $53,86...
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