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The real political division in society is between authoritarians and libertarians.
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15 August 2009
A mid-summer night’s gambol
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“Love”, as Shakespeare put it, “looks not with the eyes, but with the mind and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” Of all the politi...
Missing in Action: the 2006 economic policy review
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In 2006, Danny Williams decided he needed to take a second look at the economic development plans he was following. "Over the pas...
Great Gambols with Public Money: Sprung Cukes
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Ah, how quickly they forget, these pleasant but heavily indebted, taxpaying people of Newfoundland and the sorry experience of governments t...
14 August 2009
Invent a weasel word…
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The New York Times’ Ben Schott challenges readers to have some fun and invent new words or phrases that have an obscured or no meaning t...
The reality of government polls
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Governments look on polls and the associated poll goosing as a means of shaping public opinion, not measuring it.
Pee in the shower
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See? Told it was a good idea. From Brazil, a cute 45 second spot that shows peeing in the shower saves water in the long run.
The Leprechaun Play
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Oil is there on the island’s west coast but why is it that the provincial government has to exploit the potential for oil instead of a loc...
13 August 2009
Company behind Fermeuse wind power project seeks bankruptcy protection
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Skypower Corp, the company behind a wind power demonstration project at Fermeuse, Newfoundland filed for bankruptcy protection on August...
Wolfe Island Wind Farm Project
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Canadian Hydro Developers Inc operates a 197.8 megawatt wind farm project on Wolfe Island, near Kingston Ontario. CHD installed the 86 tu...
12 August 2009
Oh yeah… it’s polling season
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The Premier might have been otherwise engaged for the Council of the Federation meeting last week discussing trivial things like the recessi...
A municipal tax grab
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The draft paratransit report for the City of St. John’s proposes a series of new tax grabs to pay for the system. And deputy mayor Ron El...
Exit strategy
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What do Sarah Palin and Ryan Cleary have in common? Poor exit strategies that prompted rumours and a host of questions based on the way th...
Making council races partisan affairs
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An effort ostensibly aimed at encouraging women to get involved in municipal politics – where there are no political parties – turned into a...
More crap from the Globe
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As usual, Christie Blatchford gets it right. A front page story in the Tuesday Globe excoriates an Ottawa judge for remarks he didn’t ma...
11 August 2009
And then, things went horribly wrong…
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Ryan Cleary tells CBC’s Chris O’Neill-Yates his version of why he wants to get into politics. Rather than settle questions, Cleary just m...
Stimulus. Response. Stimulus. Response.
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Doesn’t anyone think? Well, apparently Goose Bay mayor Leo Abbass thought enough of the negative connotations of a story in The Labradoria...
How can you tell the government pollster is in the field?
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1. Announcing the announcement of announcements previously announced : 11 August 2009 , a news conference to announce the first cheque fro...
Twittering…
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From a cbc.ca/nl discussion thread on oi l exploration by the provincial government’s oil and gas corporation, a comment that gives new mean...
It’s official…
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As Bond Papers reported yesterday , Ryan Cleary is looking for the New Democratic Party [name under review] nod in St. John’s South-Mount Pe...
10 August 2009
“Accelerated” Labrador roads work actually happening next year – as planned
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The provincial government is “ accelerating ” its commitment to road work in Labrador - whatever the heck that means - but that doesn’t me...
How old is your cell phone?
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Try 1989 for customers of Central Telephone in the United States. That’s the date on this video from youtube and it looks to be about r...
Wannabe candidates and nose-pulling
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Ryan Cleary’s departure from voice of the cabinet minister came as a surprise to most. There was speculation he’d been fired for campaigni...
Fantasy Island II: Churchill Falls and s.92(A)
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Tom Careen of Placentia is apparently vying for the title of Chief Fantasist here on Fantasy island. He’s become a regular letter writer to...
09 August 2009
Another Homer Simpson moment
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So a couple of communities on the coast of Labrador are complaining of lack of action by the provincial government. One is a roads issues wh...
Fallow field?
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nottawa raises an interesting point about NALCO’s bailout of the Parson’s Pond oil licenses. -srbp-
08 August 2009
Shocker of the century: soldiers, sex, speed and booze version
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Some prudes at the Department of National Defence need to get a grip. Apparently, they are concerned because a recent study showed that t...
Another safari reporter bags small game
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When you drop in, do a couple of quickie interviews and then head off again, you tend to miss the details. The Globe is the latest vehicle...
PUB pork snacks: the editorial view
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The Saturday Telegram editorial makes good points about the recent pork appointment at the board of commissioners of public utilities, but ...
07 August 2009
Takogo kak…
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So what is it about northern strongmen, physical activity and their supposed political power? Ya got yer Putin, the pecs and a swim in a S...
NALCO buys pot from Leprechaun, has one year to find black gold
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The provincial government’s energy corporation will spend at least $20 million over the next year to drill exploration wells on three licens...
Counterpointing
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Of course pumping out a raft of good news, even if it is recycled for the most part, does help to offset the latest employment figures. T...
You know its polling season
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1. An announcement about fibre-optic something or other. 2. An announcement about energy something or other . 3. Money for road pavi...
The longest, slowest good-bye in political history
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For those who don’t know, the Council of the Federation isn’t another Star Trek convention. It’s the new name for the meetings where all Ca...
06 August 2009
Pork appointment at PUB
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Another one of the Tory faithful has gone to his reward as a full-time commissioner of public utilities. Jim Oxford will start work on Se...
Real Leaders Shovel It, apparently
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There’s been a silly exchange of letters to the editor the past couple of weeks between a fellow named Matthew Pike and the John Hickey. Hi...
05 August 2009
Only NL GM dealer affected by cuts closes doors
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Clarenville’s Decker Motors is the only General Motors dealership in Newfoundland and Labrador affected by the company’s cuts to dealership...
What we pay him the big bucks for…
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Labrador affairs minister John Hickey vows to pave roads in Labrador s’posin’ he’s got to do it himself, one shovel full at a time. Man...
04 August 2009
How Irish we aren’t: airline version
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So how come, with news of a new airline serving St. John’s, none of the locals have suggested trying to bring Ryanair to Newfoundland? Str...
Dear Krista…
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It’s pronounced “aitch”. Not “hay-tch”. Once is fine, but hearing it every time the term “H1N1” turns up in a newscast the mispronunciat...
Canadian Press and CBC desperately need online fact checker
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Someone needs to start doing some fact checking on stories posted on CBC’s web site. A Canadian Press story on a Russian Proton K rocket ...
03 August 2009
The junk science of ink blots
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If some psychologists are worried that knowledge of the Rorschach test posted to the Internet has invalidated the ink blots as a diagnostic...
Historically challenged
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Having the provincial government eliminate interest charges on provincial student loans is considered an ”unprecedented” initiative by…umm…...
Waiting for the news release…
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when Newfoundland and Labrador’s population drops by one half of one percent would be like waiting for government to lower gas prices by h...
Lemme get this straight…
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The guy who liked to recycle expense claims (in one case three times) and who serves in an administration renowned for recycling announcem...
02 August 2009
Random thoughts - squirrels
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“Squirrels are the Devil’s oven mitts.” That quote turns up in The Book of General Ignorance a marvelous collection of trivia, facts and ...
Changing the frame, at last
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Premier Danny Williams may well have lived up to an election promise and brought the auditor general in to look at the books, but until t...
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