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13 October 2008
At the last minute, Harris ducks
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In the last hours of the campaign, New Democrat candidate Jack Harris was hit with a simple, straightforward question. Rather than answer ...
The Fruitloop Factory
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There's no allowing for the myriad reason why people feel the need to make stuff up, nor that they would use this false stuff for their ...
12 October 2008
Iceland eyes IMF
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As they prepared to head to Moscow to negotiation a four billion euro bailout, Icelandic officials gave signs on Sunday the country was look...
Vote Dipper to stop the seal hunt
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Why else would IFAW care about an election race in Canada? -srbp-
Fishing for votes
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Outgoing Connie fish minister Loyola Hearn is extending the damn fool fishery - an annual cod plunder disguised as tradition - just in tim...
Harper hides
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Okay, so the guy who will only speak to reporters in highly controlled conditions, is now canceling all media availabilities for the remain...
11 October 2008
"Confederation is in danger": Cleary
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Ryan Cleary, New Democratic Party, St. John's South-Mount Pearl, on his election blog: “Confederation is in danger,” I said. “J...
"Worse than first thought": Aussie foreign minister
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From The Australian : THE government's cabinet budget committee will meet later today to take any action deemed necessary from key ...
CTV/ATV hatchet job
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ATV and CTV are getting ripped for their hatchet job of Stephane Dion, and rightly so. Geoff Meeker's media blog at the Telegram is a...
Dear Conrad...
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Get a grip. Obama was leading McCain before the meltdown. McCain's miserable performance in the wake of the economic crisis has on...
10 October 2008
Crude futures settle below US$78
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Bloomberg.com is reporting that West Texas Intermediate for November delivery finished trading at the New York Mercantile Exchange at US$77...
Jack channels Al Gore, in a bad way
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New Democrat candidate Jack Harris seemed to be channeling Al Gore at the all candidates debate on CBC Radio Thursday. No, not Enviro-Cham...
The dark side of ABC
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In " Enough traitor talk ", Geoff Meeker at the Telegram takes issue with the extreme language being used by the ABC campaign in ...
09 October 2008
Only Avalon up in the air
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As of October 8, democraticSPACE is showing predicted winners in six of seven seats in Newfoundland and Labrador. Only Avalon is left unc...
The politics of strange bedfellows, Merv and Craig version
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Merv Wiseman, Conservative candidate in St. John's South-Mount Pearl. Craig Westcott, Conservative candidate in St. John's East. ...
Geez, that's gotta hurt
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The view of Iceland then , for some. [h/t to Daimnation ! ] His outline of how Iceland went from poverty to prosperity in less than two...
The little Cuba of the north
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According to bloomberg.com , Moscow is offering the Icelanders A loan of four billion euros to help it get through the current crisis. ...
And on the up side...
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St. John's East Liberal candidate Walter Noel's political experience shone through at the start of an all-candidates forum on the lo...
Iceland banks have $250 million in NL fishery
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Icelandic banks have invested at least $250 million in the Newfoundland and Labrador fishery. Telegram editor Russell Wangersky pointed t...
08 October 2008
Portent?
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British Petroleum is halting work on a Delaware liquid natural gas plant: “We've been looking at the global market conditions surro...
The imaginary bubble
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From RBC Economics' latest provincial forecast for Newfoundland and Labrador: While domestic conditions are generally strong, grow...
Pattern Behaviour 2: Spot the Pitcher Plants
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Provincial Conservatives love to astroturf . In fact they've had this latest astroturf run planned for some time. They love to call ...
Iceland sinks deeper into financial mess
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1. "Iceland teeters on brink of bankruptcy". ( Forbes.com ) LONDON - Iceland is getting closer to becoming the first nation ...
Pattern behaviour
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Faced with the prospect he can't deliver his consistently stated goal of ensuring no Conservatives are elected in Newfoundland and Labra...
07 October 2008
The Can-Opener's surplus prediction
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Memorial University economist Wade Locke: "The price of oil has already averaged in excess of $110, $115 per barrel for the year s...
Taylor's self-made hard spot
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Provincial acting fisheries minister Trevor Taylor is in a hard spot. You can tell he's in a hard spot because in order to criticize a...
Marg, Princess Warrior tackles Harper again
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From nlpress.ca .
CTV caves in face of ABC campaign
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From Danny Williams comments on a voice of the cabinet minister call-in show on Sunday evening: A couple of weeks ago when they were ou...
The return of The Can-Opener
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Memorial University economist Wade Locke is back in the news and, not surprisingly he is saying things the provincial government will love....
Slim Whitman's Greatest Hits
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Danny Williams, from a call to voice of the cabinet minister's Sunday night call-in show: And, you know, there are issues that are ...
06 October 2008
Trevor's duck and cover explained
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Trevor Taylor, part-time substitute fisheries minister in the Provincial Conservative government has been busily ducking a looming issue in ...
Cats, frogs and something really lost in translation
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Cute piece about Stephen Harper in Yarmouth Nova Scotia, a tickle in his throat and the side story about the different idiomatic expressions...
The way ahead
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As a rule, Canadian political campaigns don't make use of the available technology to reach voters. They don't. The national par...
05 October 2008
Iceland economic troubles
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Odds are you won't hear Newfoundland nationalists speaking too loudly about Iceland these days. Not so very long ago it was a source ...
Whistling past the economic graveyard
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The business world in a free market runs so extensively on psychology it's amazing that business schools around the world spend so much ...
04 October 2008
Campaign zoo diaries
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1. Palin: One too many pucks to the head. The Republicans were desperate enough when they nominated Sarah Palin for the veep spot on the ...
Mission Impossible
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Before someone gagged Ivan Morgan, he used to write the odd column - at the Herald and the now dead Independent - on local politics. He o...
Wishin' and hopin' and spewin' and sprayin'
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Undoubtedly, Scott Andrews campaign took great heart this past week for stories running on CBC and in the Telegram about Fabian Manning an...
03 October 2008
At least he's got a plan
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While the Conservatives race to cobble one together for release on Tuesday and Stephen Harper and finance leprechaun Jim Flaherty do their b...
Jack's coming back
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Jack Layton, whose campaign signs are popping up all over St. John's South-Mount Pearl is coming back to campaign for Ryan Cleary, the g...
Harper channeled Mike Harris, too
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First Howard. Now Harris. The press release compares the speaking notes used by Harris on December 4, 2002, which are posted on the w...
Refinery's Euro-backers bailed in '07, law suit alleges
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In statement of claim against Altius in the ongoing legal battles over the second refinery proposed for a site near Come by Chance, BAE New...
02 October 2008
Now will someone start reporting it correctly?
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The ABC campaign is a Family Feud. The Provincial Conservatives are sticking it to their federal brothers and sisters . That's it. ...
Stephane's response to Danny
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A simple, well-crafted letter and the missing attachment . -srbp-
Steamroller!
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If the latest NTV/Telelink poll on the race in St. John's East holds true, New Democrat Jack Harris can start house-hunting in Ottawa a...
If you aren't depressed, you should be
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Richard Raleigh holds nothing back in his assessment of the candidates running in the two St. John's ridings. -srbp-
01 October 2008
Lower Churchill delayed a mere six months?
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Energy corporation boss Ed Martin told CBC News that the current market turmoil in the United States could delay the Lower Churchill projec...
Steve and Stock in 2003
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From the Wall Street Journal , March 2003, Stephen Harper and Stockwell Day tell Americans their position on Iraq (presumably not stolen fro...
It's Coady in front
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The NTV/Telelink poll on St. John's South- Mount Pearl didn't turn up many major surprises. Liberal Siobhan Coady, who is trying...
A tight race in Avalon? Dream on, baby
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NTV and Telelink released a poll on Tuesday on the race in the federal riding of Avalon. NTV touted it as showing a tight race, with the ...
A-B-C = D-E-A-D
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Some local media outlets have taken to tacking obligatory mentions of the ABC thingy onto stories related to the election campaign even when...
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