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19 May 2009
Count down to H Hour
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Is it a strike, a lock-out or just a labour dispute ? Is it part of an agenda by nurses - directed by the national nurses union - to see ...
NL exports down 50% in ‘09 according to EDC
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Export Development Canada is predicting Newfoundland and Labrador exports will drop by half in 2009 and rebound only 7% in 2010. “Newf...
Government follows through on promised AbitibiBowater corporate subsidy
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Premier Danny Williams and a gaggle of cabinet ministers took the trip to central Newfoundland on Tuesday to announce that the provincial go...
Two degrees of separation: nurses strike version
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Anyone care to go back and look at the last nurses strike? Check the issues. Check the government behaviour. Look familiar? But then t...
It’s war!
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After lengthy talks on the weekend aimed at averting a nurses strike, the provincial government refused to change it's position at all....
16 May 2009
Two degrees of separation
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Around these parts, we’ve always joked that you can play six degrees of separation everywhere else but in Newfoundland and Labrador you can ...
15 May 2009
A mere pittance
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Just a few other observations come to mind at the end of the week on the province’s newest old research and development agency . The origi...
Whadidwetellya?
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On Wednesday we warned the government was putting on the push to slam the House closed. It’s twoo, It’s twoo, as Lily von Schtup would sa...
TJ the Latte Boy
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The Kristin Chenoweth version that started a bit of a craze: Another version which is actually much funnier in some respects: An...
Turn off the damn phone
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From a couple of months ago, admittedly, but still worth watching again.
14 May 2009
Sexist and inaccurate coverage at macleans.ca
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Apparently, macleans.ca couldn’t find a story worth writing about from Newfoundland and Labrador so they had to showcase provincial environm...
Quality matters
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Newfoundlanders and Labradorians got a huge reminder today of a piece of red tape the provincial government deliberately ignored in its rece...
13 May 2009
Reinventing the wheel and keeping it secret
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According to a provincial government news release , the Premier announced something new today: the “Research & Development Corporation (...
Government pollster in the field
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You can tell Corporate research Associates – the provincial government pollster – is doing the quarterly omnibus. 1. Yet another federal-...
Legislature to close early?
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Don’t be surprised if the House of Assembly shuts down suddenly later this week or early next week before the nurses’ job action starts. ...
One thing you can count on…
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If the nurses take any strike action, the provincial government will legislate them back to work with a vengeance. Sure the Premier and ...
Nose-puller alert: Frank and Brian never spoke after 1987
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Via the National Post , a description of a bit of Brian Mulroney’s testimony at the inquiry into the whole Airbus mess: His relationsh...
12 May 2009
S-92 Q and A
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While it is stamped for internal use only, CBC has posted an internal questions and answers document prepared for use by the oil company of...
Clarity
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Here’s an old chestnut used to teach people about clear communication. Your humble e-scribbler first came across it about a decade ago in a...
Public cash not enough
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Teletech, a controversial American call centre operator, is pulling up stakes and leaving the province after only four years of its five y...
11 May 2009
Trade deals and petards
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The premier’s excuses for not participating in talks on a European trade deal just get more bizarre as time goes by. First there was the w...
Inconvenient truths: voting math
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From the House of Assembly and a discussion of the recent vote taken among the province’s nurses on a contract offer from the provincial go...
No deal. No cash.
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The lack of a deal with the federal government is holding up approval of projects eligible for the federal government’s economic stimulus s...
10 May 2009
Airborne misadventures, Part Deux
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For those who enjoyed the video of paratroops exiting an aircraft in a less than proficient manner, here is another one to lighten up your d...
Well positioned, indeed
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In the past year, Newfoundland and Labrador has shed 8,800 jobs. That’s right. There are almost 9,000 fewer people working this time in ...
08 May 2009
Sound familiar?
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A bunch of politicians accused of living high on the public hog and getting into an argument about what the rules permit . From Guido Fawk...
First oil and a new discovery
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Chevron announced two milestones this week. On Wednesday, the company achieved first oil on the Tahiti field in the Gulf Of Mexico. pro...
07 May 2009
There’s more to this than a few seals
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Given the origins of and the scope of the trade talks starting between Canada and the European Union, Danny Williams’ refusal to participat...
What makes news? (Small Town News edition)
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People wonder what it takes to get a story in the conventional media. Virtually every public relations practitioner will be asked - at le...
06 May 2009
How to tell when your position is wrong
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When you are a political leader and your comments show you to be so far out of touch with the best interest of your province such that Steph...
Indy going under
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Apparently, it has nothing to do with anything other than the trends in the market. People don’t read newspapers evidently, especially on...
The Value of an Oxford education
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"You see what's happening in countries like Denmark with the whale slaughters. We see other parts of the world where kangaroos a...
05 May 2009
Hebron deal: fixed research and development, backed by Province
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What natural resources minister Kathy Dunderdale said in March 2007 about the offshore regulatory board’s regulations for research and deve...
Kick-back? Did he really say kick-back?
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From an international news story on the European Union seal ban, comes this curious phrase from provincial fish minister Tom Hedderson: ...
And they’re off…
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to a bad start in Nova Scotia. Well, bad start if you are Premier Rodney MacDonald trying to explain that a budget which is in the red is ...
Live-blogging a trial
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Anyone interested in the trial of Ottawa mayor Larry O’Brien on charges he conspired to keep an opponent out of the last mayoral race can fo...
04 May 2009
Hebron deal: Big Oil’s new L’il Buddy
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A curious extract from the financial agreement that was part of the Hebron development deal: 5.1 Support of Province. The Provinc...
Best kept secret: musician/composer edition
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Keith Power. Originally from da Goulds, now making a living in California writing music for movies, video games and television. -srbp-
CAE buys xwave defence unit
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News release issued Friday, May 1, 2009 : CAE and Bell Aliant Regional Communications Income Fund ("Bell Aliant") today annou...
Cuts not growth on air force agenda
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Via David Pugliese, the air force is considering options to cut upwards of $123 million from next year’s budget. Expanding search and resc...
02 May 2009
Smelter talk more like smegma talk
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Last October a federal briefing note prepared for incoming natural resources minister Lisa Raitt listed an aluminum smelter in Labrador as o...
01 May 2009
There’s a reason…
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people call her Blunderdale. Deputy premier Kathy Dunderdale has taken to answering opposition questions with an odd air of arrogance abo...
What got up Tom’s nose?
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From the Thursday session of the provincial legislature, this odd response by fish minister Tom Hedderson to a question by opposition house ...
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