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11 September 2008
A simple question with no good answer
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In the week ending September 9, the average price of gasoline across Canada dropped by 1.9 cents per litre . Read that again. Gasoline ...
Results of Labrador parcel sale: offshore board
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The following was released today by the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board . C-NLOPB Releases Results of 2007 La...
10 September 2008
The first poll: some thoughts
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Courtesy of a loyal Bond Papers reader comes this translation of the NTV poll results, compared to the 2006 general election. ...
The politics of strange bedfellows
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Bob Ridgley is the Provincial Conservative member of the House of Assembly for St. John's North and part of a family clan that dominates...
Anything But Clear: poll
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If the latest poll by NTV News is any indication, the Premier has a gigantic job of work ahead of him just in his own province to make the ...
The 800 pound gorilla in the election
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Correction: After 24 months of Conservative government, productivity sits low for the third consecutive quarter , the longest continuous p...
The Blue Shaft
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If you want to get a good idea of just how the Connies carbon initiative wouldn't work, then read Paul Wells blog entry that exposes th...
09 September 2008
Ryan Cleary: Gucci socialist, aging granola or artsy fartsy?
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Ryan Cleary wannabe candidate for the New Democratic Party may not get to be for a whole bunch of reasons, not the least of which is that he...
Yes, but what kind of fruit?
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Chuck McVetty is likely fuming, given that the federal Conservatives are apparently led by a guy willing to self identify as a fruit. Talk...
How green was your valley?
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Like the old Newfoundland saying, some politicians think the voters are too green to burn if you take the full measure of the least politica...
Begging letters to Ottawa
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Some politicians think we gotta treat Ottawa like Santa Claus and write him begging or something...or when Joey was around it was "U...
Autonomy? What university autonomy?
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A statement on university autonomy released this morning was sent to reporters without sign-off from Memorial University. Pretty much pro...
"Our brain has been hijacked"
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The usually more staid Daimnation has gone to the dogs. Yapping dogs of blind partisanship. The best they can come up with for politica...
08 September 2008
Political definition time
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To jerome: To make an argument that directly contradicts an earlier one, especially where the original opinion was based on principle. Af...
Cloverfield 2
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In 1988, Jack Harris was the lively little mammal who emerged amid a battle between a Godzilla and a Mothra of local politics to head off t...
Electoral shocks and nots
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Shock: Newspaper editor Craig Westcott's the federal Conservative candidate in St. John's East. If you want an ox gored, then cal...
Family Feud Week 2: Hit early, hit often; Williams starts polling; none of the usual suspects to run for Connies in St. John's East
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Last week's smack from the federal Conservatives against their Provincial Conservative brethren sent the Premier off to poll his caucus ...
07 September 2008
Fear and loathing on the campaign trail, Labrador version
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Federal fish minister Loyola Hearn couldn't help but try some old-fashioned politicking. He took a swipe at a provincial cabinet minist...
The Sunday scuttlebutt
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If the rumours aren't worth following then the truth is sometimes much stranger than fiction. 1. Loyola Sullivan is now reportedly ...
The Rhodes to Perdition
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In his Globe column on Stephen Harper this first campaign weekend, Rex Murphy demonstrates an ability to observe but not see. Murphy begi...
06 September 2008
An abuse of our men and women in uniform
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The federal Conservatives gave Canadians a lesson in Halifax yesterday, a lesson most of them likely didn't want. A group of Second Wo...
05 September 2008
Shaping political attitudes
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The quarterly CRA promotional poll hit the streets today and it's interesting to see, among other things, one rather curious difference...
Humber Valley Resort gets 30 day creditor protection
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The owners of Humber Valley Resort sought and obtained court protection for at least 30 days in order to develop a financial reorganization...
Family Feud: another angle
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So which Provincial Conservatives are gonna sign on to this campaign? The premier's apparently got answers from all his caucus and on...
Family Feud: the silverback swipes again
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A federal Conservative statement hot off the e-mail: Minister Hearn Challenges Premier Williams To Allow Caucus to Campaign for Conserv...
Friday election round-up
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1. The latest political scuttlebutt has Loyola Sullivan out of the country and not taking the Prime Minister's calls. As it stands now,...
Family Feud: Hollywood style
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In 1989, a younger Danny Williams campaigned to make Loyola Hearn premier of the province. Almost 20 years later, the feud between the two...
The Polar Opposites Express
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Many of you may already read Mark Watton over at nottawa , but for those who don't, you might rethink what you've been missing. &q...
04 September 2008
Family Feud: George Orwell meets Walt Kelly
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Steve Kent was quick off the mark on Thursday to pledge his unswerving, unstinting and constant loyalty to the ABC cause. Yes, the Family ...
Candidate scuttlebutt - St. John's
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1. Connie organizers are working hard to get Tom Rideout in St. John's East. 2. Hearn is out but Loyola "Rainman" Sulliva...
03 September 2008
ROFLMAO @ ABC
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Over at Geoff Meeker's blog , his post on a supposed leak from inside the Provincial Conservative caucus has brought out a self-describe...
Mile One runs huge deficit
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St. John's Sport and Entertainment, the municipally-owned corporation that runs Mile One Stadium, known to some as the Wells-Coombs Memo...
02 September 2008
Backuppable Tom to run for federal Connies?
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The Family Feud could get infinitely more entertaining if local political rumours hold true. Former Provincial Conservative Premier Tom Ri...
The safest Conservative riding in Canada. Not.
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That's what your humble e-scribbler thought too, until he bothered to check the facts. Turns out the seat currently held by Norman Doy...
Provincial Conservatives plan ABC astroturf
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Bond Papers readers are no doubt shocked at the very thought, but it seems to be true. They may even be struck speechless at the very idea...
01 September 2008
The jazz of life vests
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Air Canada Jazz recently announced the airline will be removing passenger life vests from their flights. The move is aimed at reducing we...
Quietly Conservative
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Over at the Telly, the weekend and holidays crew is writing headlines designed to arouse the irk of the nationalist fringe. Either that ...
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