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Churchill Falls and Muskrat Falls - Background
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19 January 2010
Every name in for the senator pool
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A couple of e-mails in ye olde inbox on Monday and just about every conceivable name cropped up in the great game of trying to figure out wh...
18 January 2010
Budget consultation farce: more evidence
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Normally, budget decisions wouldn’t be announced until after the provincial government budget for the upcoming fiscal year is formally prese...
NB Power deal: it’ll all be over soon
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First there was talk about reworking the deal. And now a cabinet minister says publicly he won’t be backing it. Oh yeah and the schleme...
Push back on Grenfell
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Things are not good in Corner Brook if the local daily the Western Star is making this strong a statement about the Premier’s recent - an...
17 January 2010
Lower Churchill, Nova Scotia and NB Power: “The sheer economics of it…”
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And it is not like people haven’t said this before : Premier Darrell Dexter said he’s not surprised Newfoundland and Labrador is lookin...
16 January 2010
The Recession in pictures
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Via John Gushue who got it from Business Insider who got it from Calculated Risk , a chart comparing job loss as a share of peak employmen...
Text “HAITI” to 45678
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From the Salvation Army: Toronto, ON January 14, 2010 – The Salvation Army has activated its Text to Donate program in support of the Hai...
15 January 2010
Pat and Rush in perspective
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Nothing more need be said than Keith Olbermann’s 1:48 summary of Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh on Haiti. Even this is more attention tha...
Op Hestia: Canadian Forces Combat Camera
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An unidentified member of 2 Air Movements Squadron (8 Wing, Trenton, Ontario) helps load a pallet of medical supplies onboard a Canadian Fo...
Twitter feeds on Haiti
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On the right, at the top. 1. Joanna Smith ( smithjoanna ) from Toronto Star . Thanks to John Gushue for blogging her stuff over at his ...
The A-Team
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Any movie with the line “Sucks to be you” in it can’t be all bad. -srbp-
Of Cukes and Unis
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Truly, things are very strange when the guy who backed a second university for the province - despite evidence at the time of declining en...
14 January 2010
Kremlinology 14: Dead Caterpillars
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Brian Tobin did it. Roger Grimes did it. Well, yes both served their political party as leader and served the province as Premier. But...
As myths go…
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This one was strong. From the Globe and Mail , December 2007: Now, instead of the predicted poverty, there's the "Danny Will...
13 January 2010
Racket on the Edge
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Expect to see much more bitching, moaning and complaining that ticket prices for the 2010 Juno award show will be $ 189 for individual tic...
12 January 2010
As bad deals go…
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Okay. So like, let’s just make sure we are all clear on this. First, there was the disastrous deal with Venezuela that was supposed to ...
Zombie TV
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So Jay Leno is going back to late night television, thereby displacing Conan and Jimmy and undoing the great change that NBC brought to tel...
Changes to pensions just tip of public sector fiscal iceberg
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The provincial government is considering making some changes to public sector pensions, according to the Telegram . Options include add...
11 January 2010
Province may lose big-time in Hebron royalty give-away
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According to the Telegram , the Hebron partners won’t be filing their development application for the project until December 2010. That’s ...
10 January 2010
A statement of fact isn’t a criticism
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Finance minister Tom Marshall told the Telegram’ s Dave Bartlett a few interesting things in an interview that appeared in the Saturday prin...
09 January 2010
Budget 2010: Slowly the facts emerges
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From an interview with the Telegram (not online) here’s a telling little statement from finance minister Tom Marshall: He said corpora...
Jeff, the SCC and senate reform
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Canada’s Ersatz George Will should learn to do that or at least take his own advice. Jeff Simpson implores – presumably the prime minister...
08 January 2010
Let me fish off Old Wyoming
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You be the judge. Otto Kelland is best known in Newfoundland as the writer of the ballad “Let me fish off Cape St. Mary’s”, written in 1...
07 January 2010
Senate reform, again
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One glaring point the Globe and Mail front pager on senate reform missed is blatantly obvious. The Globe claimed that: Analysts say...
There’s even a local version…
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of the Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament. Facebook sez. And they have a rally scheduled for January 23rd in St. John’s. Presuma...
06 January 2010
Mr. Walsh goes to jail
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Former Liberal cabinet minister Jim Walsh will be spending a few months behind bars for his part in the House of Assembly spending scandal. ...
Alberta poll in question
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Ye, verily, lo and behold, good citizens: There are problems with reports coming from Alberta about the Wild Rose party and polling. So...
Brent Price Comparisons
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For those who have been following along with the discussion of oil prices and provincial government revenue, it’s interesting to compare the...
05 January 2010
Sikorsky settles with NL S-92 families/survivor
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There’s a settlement in the lawsuit launched by the sole survivor and the families of passengers and crew who died in the crash last march o...
In your wildest dreams…
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You likely never imagined a popular revolt at the idea that parliament would not be sitting for about the same number of days that Tom Rideo...
Oil production remains lower than forecast
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Provincial government oil production forecast remains way off track. Budget 2009 predicted oil production would total 98 million barrels i...
04 January 2010
ARC Silly Week
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As a bit of a diversion, here are some local contributions to what is known as Silly Week at Aircraft Resource Center , a website devoted to...
Imagine if they were senate vacancies…
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Seems that something is holding up the announcement of four appointments to the provincial court. The clerks’ room at Number 3 Iniquity co...
03 January 2010
Why I write
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“In any thriving democracy, sound public policy can only come through informed debate and discussion.” The reason for writing The Sir ...
01 January 2010
When finance ministers meet…
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-srbp-
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