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16 October 2009
Python at 40
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The first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus aired 40 years ago this month on the BBC. Taped first but according to some sources ai...
The shrimp industry explained
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Derek Butler in the Telegram. As usual there’s way more to the issue than meets the eye. -srbp-
15 October 2009
The search for a university president: compare and contrast
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At McMaster, they started hunted in January and 10 months later came up with a winner. At Memorial, it has already taken almost 10 month...
If only they’d read their briefing materials…
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While health minister Jerome Kennedy busily backs off decisions he took only a few weeks ago on health care, there is something obviously h...
Will Danny expropriate this one too?
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Kruger is talking cuts and concessions at the major private sector employer in the premier’s own district. So far, not a peep from the pr...
The Alberta Deficit Fighting Strategy
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Where would Albertans be without such sound guardianship of the public purse ? In 2008, give yourself a 30% wage hike. In 2009, set spen...
Randy Simms can relax
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So if Randy Simms can get himself into a load of hot water with some people, then we can only wait and watch to see what will happen to Gene...
Fuzzy Logic, cabinet ministers version
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Just to recap : So the Lewisporte health care centre started out as a chronic care and acute care centre at a cost of $22 million. Then ...
14 October 2009
Prissy politics
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Anyone ever see a letter to the editor from Dr. Noel Cadigan taking a politician to task for referring to someone as a traitor? Doubtful ...
13 October 2009
Another tumble coming
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People may be cheering the rising loonie . Some people may be rubbing their hands with glee at the current and forecast prices for crude....
The result of fisheries mismanagement
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Once upon a time, Fishery Products International built a state-of-the-art shrimp processing plant that would have provided employment to its...
Ya got four years, Kurtis
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Ralph won this one and he ain’t giving up the seat for a second try. Odds are extremely good, though, that this will be his last kick at...
Zombieland
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Fresh from his humiliating defeat at the hands of Doc O’Keefe, Ron Ellsworth is not content to be politically dead for a moment. He is pl...
When all they can offer is an E.A., Terra Nova version
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Said it before . Say it again . -srbp-
Yep. Something’s wrong.
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Gasoline prices in Newfoundland and Labrador jumped by more than three cents per litre last Thursday. Interestingly, the prices in this p...
Cliffs to buy Wabush Mines
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Cleveland-based Cliffs Resources is exercising its right of first refusal to acquire outstanding shares in Wabush Mines from U.S. Steel and ...
12 October 2009
Jerome’s Guarded Language
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labradore does yet another commendable job on demographics and recent population increases. He also dissects the former finance minister’...
11 October 2009
66 at 6 in 2
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Once it was a million dollars , but heck if there was only a half a million there are better things to do with it than give it to Rolls-Royc...
09 October 2009
Blooms and roses
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News reports about a climb in the number of jobs across the country buried a key aspect of the story, as in this example from the Globe . ...
Darrell Dexter: sucker
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From the Chronicle-Herald : Premier Darrell Dexter had a private meeting Monday with the president of Newfoundland’s energy corporation...
Coming soon: the book they tried to suppress
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When you care enough to send the very best
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As David Pugliese notes, the Americans are speeding up work on the Massive Ordnance Penetrator. Basically, it’s a honking great non-nucl...
coughsoundsfamiliarcough
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Jeff Simpson sayeth : In Alberta, swimming in oil and natural-gas revenues, the Conservatives after Peter Lougheed (an old-style conser...
The Yiddish of Newfoundland Politics: the chutzpah of political hackery
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Tory MHA Ed Buckingham reads a prepared talking point on CBC Radio praising Jerome Kennedy and attacking – of all people – the politically d...
The Yiddish of Newfoundland Politics: the chutzpah of monkey-tossing
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According to CBC, health minister Jerome Kennedy is saying the by-election in the Straits is bringing to light issues and concerns about hea...
08 October 2009
Simms in PACSW’s gun sights
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Popular and influential talk show host Randy Simms is now firmly in the gun sights of the provincial government’s official advisory organiza...
But what does Get to Half mean now?
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h/t to I.P. Freely. -srbp-
A political object lesson
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Not-yet-sworn-in city councillor Sheilagh O’Leary got off to a very rocky start to her political career on Wednesday as she called Open Line...
07 October 2009
Kremlinology 6: the curious last days of Paul Oram
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On September 10, 2009, then health minister Paul Oram gave a version of the health care cuts decision that contradicted what his boss was sa...
Jerome! gets his dream job
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Jerome Kennedy is the new health minister . There was talk a year or so ago that Kennedy was anxious to move into the high pressure job as...
No slack for Oram from reporters
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Paul Oram left politics entirely today blaming ill health and the news media who apparently hounded him and his family. That second one n...
Breaking: Oram to commit hara kiri?
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Embattled health minister Paul Oram is holding a newser in 15 minutes to discuss his political fate. That’s usually code for announcing hi...
Tom Hedderson, Time Lord
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Ever the eagle eye, labradore has noted that Tom Hedderson is the latest provincial cabinet minister to have problems with time. Tom Rideo...
The Deader Sea Scrolls
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A mere six years ago this month, the Provincial Conservatives were on the campaign trail promising to bring a new approach to the province’s...
06 October 2009
Vacuous, 2009 edition
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Political media commentary in Canada is usually funny. Lately, commentary on federal politics is even funnier. Example The First: Wins...
Oh, how far the mighty have fallen
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In 2003: a bevy of promises designed to restructure and rebuild the fishing industry. Heady days were those: “The industry must be restru...
R’uh R’oh, the people version
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it took a bit but labradore has laid waste to the latest bit of silliness coming from some quarters about the Glorious Growth of In-Migra...
05 October 2009
An admission of abject failure
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A quarter of a century ago, Doug House and the Royal Commission on Employment and Unemployment heard time and again of the the need to get ...
The race is on in the Straits
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We can all know for sure because not only did the leader of the provincial Tory party announce it , the former president of the party “conf...
Innovation?
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A 10 minute video from the provincial government’s energy monopoly corporation is titled “ Innovation in Renewable Energy ”. So what’s so ...
02 October 2009
When all they can offer is an E.A.…
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There’s something about the life of provincial political parties that gets to be a bit predictable. Like you can tell how healthy the part...
And you think Hisself has it bad
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As much as some people like to moan about The Racket, there were a couple of things this past week to show that that self-serving load-of-cr...
And trucks keep on rolling
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Fire truck month is turning into a regular occurrence . -srbp-
A modern method of deciding
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For all those people who find it a little silly to be picking a winner out of a hat, labradore notes that the current municipal elections l...
Of course he’s unbiased and non-partisan
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From the 2003 Progressive Conservative Party news release launching their blueprint campaign platform: The plan has also been vigorousl...
01 October 2009
Americans look to home-grown hydro
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The United States can generate an additional 70,000 megawatts of electricity by upgrading existing hydro facilities according to U.S. energy...
Dear Ralph: resign
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Ralph Wiseman was screwed either way. On election night, the veteran politician lost his seat as mayor of Paradise to a 19 year old up-sta...
Lahey on the lam
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A Roman Catholic bishop accused of possessing and importing child pornography is still at large. Raymond Lahey resigned abruptly last we...
Anderson cops to 90K; Walsh files for bankruptcy
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Another spending scandal player has copped a plea. Wally Anderson, the former Liberal member for Torngat Mountains admitted to fraudulent...
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