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18 March 2010
Good one there, Wente
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Margaret Wente argues that bloggers are mostly male and demonstrates in the process that her argument [as to why that is so] is wrong. ...
17 March 2010
Never let it be said: House of Assembly version
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Never let it be said that your humble e-scribbler didn’t help out the governing party as it struggles to figure things out a mere seven year...
Births and Deaths
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With a tip of the bowler to David Campbell , here’s a table showing the ratio of live births to deaths, by province, for the selected year...
Court docket now online
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Word-for-word, the release issued by Provincial Court: Effective March 3, 2010, the Provincial Court of Newfoundland and Labrador began...
Williams to continue unsustainable spending
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In his first public statement since coming back to the province after heart surgery, Premier Danny Williams confirmed the provincial governm...
Big show; big deal
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Okay so it’s not like anyone doubted the outcome but take a look at the turnout. Out of 10,189 eligible voters, only 33% of them showed up...
16 March 2010
House to open two weeks late
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Surprisingly this didn’t get announced yesterday – on a government holiday – along with the news Hisself had returned to work. The House o...
Loonie on the way up
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The Canadian dollar is at a level it hasn’t hit since just before the giant meltdown of the economy in the middle of 2008. And this is su...
Quiet: Genius at Work
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Those people who worked diligently to smash FPI into tiny bits can see how much their handiwork is benefitting people who don’t live in Newf...
Satisfaction with Williams gov drops 13 points
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What’s the difference between approval and satisfaction? Well, quite a lot according to Newfoundlanders and Labradorians surveyed during F...
Firds of a bleather: uncommunication edition
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What government departments or agencies in Newfoundland and Labrador have a policy like the one at Environment Canada forbidding interviews...
15 March 2010
Danny is still in Florida
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Nowhere in the official news release is there any mention that Danny Williams is back in Newfoundland and Labrador. CBC didn’t report th...
Elements of Style: Notebook…and pen
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Keep your Blackberry. Thanks for the Palm, but no thanks. Ditto the iPhone, iPod and even the iPad when it arrives. They have their use...
Oveur and Out
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Actor Peter Graves , whose career ranged from Stalag 17 to Airplane!, died of an apparent heart attack on the week. Graves was age 83. ...
Inherent weakness: a public sector-driven recovery
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Newfoundland and Labrador showed weak job growth in February with an increase of a mere two tenths of one percent compared to January 2010 ...
14 March 2010
Saint-Saens – Symphony No. 3
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Sunday morning listening pleasure: -srbp-
2001 Moonbus in April from Moebius
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You know you’ve been waiting for this. Coming next month. From Moebius. For those of us who have the original Aurora release, this i...
13 March 2010
The Zen of media intimidation
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If a story goes unreported, did it actually happen? In Mexico , as in post-communist Russia, pesky reporters sometimes turn up dead pour e...
Telly-torial goes home
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A classic Telegram editorial consists of a summary of an issue concluding with a blinding insight into the completely frigging obvious. T...
12 March 2010
RBC Economics: Imaginary project to drive NL economy in 2010
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Sometimes you wonder if these guys actually have a clue: The recent Public and Private Investment Intentions survey revealed that grow...
11 March 2010
Yep, that’s unscathed alrightee
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The province’s fishing industry saw a 22% drop in the value of fish landings in 2009. So much for coming through the recession protected ...
10 March 2010
The seven percent solution
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Mark Griffin , former traitor , spouts the new government policy for rural development which is, to be sure exactly the same policy as othe...
Wonderland
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--and then all the people cheered again, and one man, who was more excited than the rest, flung his hat high into the air, and shoute...
09 March 2010
Penashue bails; Matshishkapeu Accord in trouble
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Peter Penashue decided to pack it in as deputy grand chief of the Innu Nation. That leaves the Matshishkapeu Accord in even more doubt ...
90 or more Club
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The result of just a quickie google scan on politicians with a voter approval of 90% or better: 1. Sarah Palin (Republican), former Gover...
And if Glenn Beck says it…
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Well ya know it must be true. Glenn likes Danny, too.
08 March 2010
Way freakin’ spooky
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Danny likes Canada’s health care system and goes to Florida for surgery. Sarah Palin rants and raves against socialised medicine but admi...
Ron Silver: No More.
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Rest in peace. -srbp-
Financial shorts – Second Monday in March edition
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1. Crack whores rebel: Icelanders voted against a US$5.3 billion package to deal with part of the country’s financial mess. “This i...
07 March 2010
She’s funny even if she doesn’t try
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Let’s just say that Google's translator didn’t quite get the subtle nuances of a French-language story on Sarah Palin’s speech in Calgar...
KGB Connections
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While some may have viewed it as politically incorrect, CBC followed up on its expose of organized crime in Canada with a documentary on Sov...
Firds of a bleather: legislature edition
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The second Monday in March. That would be this Monday, March 8. Why is that an important day? Well, under the standing orders of the H...
05 March 2010
Innu vow to protest, continue caribou hunt
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After a while, some of this stuff gets repeated so often you could be reading the news with an early undiagnosed case of dementia and not re...
The Dead Parrot of Graduate Studies
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“This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff....
04 March 2010
They are speaking his language
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What I said before and I said going in, this is about principles, but it's also about money as well. At the end of the day, the promi...
It’s all how you ask
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Not all CBC is bad and not all CBC is bad all the time. There was da Ceeb reporter in British Columbia who starts by asking very meekly if ...
03 March 2010
The Politics of the Caribou
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Some pictures turned up in ye olde in-box showing caribou in Labrador. The shots were taken this year. At this point don’t get concerned ...
Firds of a bleather
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Provincial finance minister Tom Marshall, speaking in Corner Brook in mid-February: “Now we have to benefit from new industry, benefit...
02 March 2010
A knowledge economy, indeed
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Finance minister Tom Marshall , in mid-February 2010: “Now we have to benefit from new industry, benefit from the knowledge economy, th...
Oil production figures
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BP gave you the numbers in November 2009 . Turns out the provincial finance department’s statistics division did a run of the same figures...
But if the “mother fish” is dead…
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Apparently someone missed the fairly simple point that if a large size cod is a sign of a healthy stock – the big ones are successful breed...
Priorities
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New legislation consolidating the province’s animal control and protections is due in the House of Assembly in a couple of weeks’ time. M...
01 March 2010
Whistleblower Protection Bill – the annual reminder
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From January 2009, here’s , here’s the link to the text of a draft bill to protect people who blow the whistle on misdeeds by public offici...
Bullshit headline; bullshit story
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“Quebec Innu hunters may face charges” screams the headline above a cbc.ca/nl story. The subject - the annual caribou frenzy - rivals t...
The Annual Caribou Frenzy: 2010 edition
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Every year Quebec Innu hunt caribou in the northern part of the territory they claim. Every year there is a panic about it. This year wa...
SCANners
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One of the pieces of legislation included last May in Bond Papers’ list of legislation not in force has turned up dead. Cause of death ...
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