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15 November 2008
You can press your thumbs as hard as you like...
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What with the official government pollster in the field and what with a video taken at the Provincial Conservative $500 a plate fundraiser ...
Something didn't add up...
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From the Globe and Mail editorial on Friday: In his somewhat ruthless takeover of much of his party's organization, Mr. Ignatieff ...
Ho hum
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While rookie member of parliament Siobhan Coady leaped past considerably more experienced caucus mates to get a post as the fisheries and oc...
14 November 2008
No sense of shame
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From a news release by government House leader Joan Burke in an announcement that the provincial legislature would re-open for its fall sitt...
Free Newfoundland!
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From a comment by Wallace Ryan on a cbc.ca/nl story : Despite the ugly words of Canadians, Newfoundlanders and Labradorians are finally...
Super-COD
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A Lockheed Aircraft video of launch and recovery trials of a modified Marine Corps KC-130F Hercules on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Forres...
13 November 2008
The burst bubble
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Only a few short weeks ago, Premier Danny Williams was claiming that Newfoundland and Labrador would be largely immune from the global econo...
What part of this wasn't clear?
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The wrong candidate the last time. The wrong candidate this time . The wrong candidate any time. -srbp-
Put on your tinfoil hats
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ALCOA, the company that retained a lobbyist for two years on the Lower Churchill project, is slashing another 350,000 tonnes from its produ...
12 November 2008
...and I'll respect you in the morning.
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Remember the three great statements people said but no one believed? Well, add a new one to that: the " we don't have a quorum &...
Budget watch
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Brent crude - the benchmark for Newfoundland and Labrador's offshore light sweet - is trading at US$53.10 at 2:30 Eastern time. -srbp...
Thanks, Roger Grimes
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Vale Inco will build a smelter at Long Harbour, as the company announced in its October 16 capital expenditure report and as Bond Papers to...
11 November 2008
15 ideas for a stronger Newfoundland and Labrador
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Introduction When Brian Peckford and Clyde Wells spoke of getting the provincial government off Equalization, they understood that such a ...
10 November 2008
Actions speak louder than words
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St. John's deputy mayor Ron Ellsworth is showing that talk is cheap. In his case, that would be his own talk about greater openness in...
The hope and generosity of our soul
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There's a fine line between an homage and a blatant rip-off of an idea. In this case, a video produced by local advertising company B...
The Lord's Prayer
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An unconventional armistice day post. Update: Spike Milligan was arguably one of the most influential comedians of the 20th century. An ...
08 November 2008
World Bank warns of impact on poor
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Robert Zoellick , head of the World Bank, is warning that the global credit crisis threatens to become a human crisis. One of the most lik...
In the wake of Iceland's fall
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From the New York Times , a story on the impact Iceland's economy collapse has had on ordinary Icelanders: In Kopavogur, a suburb o...
Long Harbour a go!
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As much as Danny Williams and his team tried to bad mouth the Voisey's Bay deal, it will deliver just as it has been delivering millions...
First, we assume a smelter...
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that might possibly lead to making stuff to make cans that we can assume a can-opener to use on. Take a deep breath. We are now in a world w...
Amen to that
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Telegram editor Russell Wangersky points out in his column this week that local political campaigns suffer from an obvious lack of new idea...
GFW mill faces uncertain future
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Union members at AbitibiBowater's Grand Falls Windsor paper mill rejected a company restructuring plan. The company is looking at way...
07 November 2008
Friday Math
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1. Brent crude is trading at $58.67 per barrel. 2. The Canadian dollar is worth $1.18 against the American dollar. It's easier to...
Canary in the oil sands
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In tough economic times, migrant labourers are a clue to how bad things are getting. They are a clue. Like a canary in the coal mine or...
Uncommunication
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Public relations involves communicating with people to gain and maintain support. Communicating: the activity of conveying information. ...
06 November 2008
Double Denouement
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1. A creditors' meeting today will determine if NLRC will finally fold, putting an end to the refinery project near Come By Chance. ...
05 November 2008
Pip off for the polls!
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Apparently, the provincial government is organizing some sort of province-wide celebration of not getting Equalization. 1. What are the od...
The Premier's scrum, de-spun
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Following are some observations on comments made during the Premier's scr um on Monday. 1. Two sets of books? In the Monday scrum, th...
More public cash for private business
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Dynamic Air Shelters, a manufacturer located in Grand Bank is poised to get more public money . That would be on top of public money - $18...
Remember, remember...
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The fifth of November.
04 November 2008
The Reactionaries
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Dissident Anglicans in St. John's recently heard what to them will be comforting words from Bishop Don Harvey . Harvey told the congre...
Get it?
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In the midst of the sheer bullshit about Equalization and "Newfie jokes", and all the miserably wrong reporting on such subjects c...
03 November 2008
The 800 megawatt controversy
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Former premier Brian Peckford tried to set the record straight today on a controversy over a deal in a the 1970s to bring 800 megawatts of p...
Nice cap d'ere buddy
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Unless the federal government is drastically changing the Equalization program yet again, entitlements are capped at the level of the lowest...
The real meaning of dignity and self-respect
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For the first time since the Government of Canada created the program in 1957, Newfoundland and Labrador does not qualify for Equalization ...
APEC catches up
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Gross Domestic Product in Newfoundland and Labrador will grow just 0.2% in 2008, according to the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council . Oi...
02 November 2008
Canadian Blog Awards 2008 - Nominations Open!
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Nominations for the 2008 Canadian Blog Awards opened November 2 and will close November 22. Then starts the rounds of voting until the win...
Inflation menace? Not so much.
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Yes, with the world economy in a bit of a crisis and central banks and political in the West worried about recession, the inflation hysteria...
Staff failure
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Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin found herself on the receiving end of a prank phone call . Two Montreal comedians pose...
01 November 2008
The deafening silence
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Federal finance leprechaun Jim Flaherty has been signaling the need to cap the Equalization system this year. "It's a federal...
One man band
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Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard liked to go-it-alone on major policy decisions, according to a new documentary on his administ...
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