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31 May 2010
Rumpole and the Phantom Judges
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Don Singleton never sat as a Provincial Court judge, not even for a single day. But he has an e-mail address and an entry in the provinci...
30 May 2010
Lower Churchill decision up in the air, indefinitely
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The provincial government’s energy plan - released in 2007 - committed to a sanction decision by 2009 and first power by 2015 but in an int...
29 May 2010
Fact Check: CBC and political party leadership
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In the House is not a home , former opposition leader Erik Neilson pointed out that the news media had a habit of calling him the interim l...
Principal beneficiary
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Newfoundland and Labrador’s royalty take from the offshore in 2009 (entirely based on 1985 Atlantic Accord and deals negotiated pre-2003): $...
28 May 2010
Every nickel counts
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Officially, the Old Man noticed the thousands of people affected by the nine-month old strike at Vale Inco. So he calls his buddy the Prem...
Are you smarter than a cheese grater?
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You have to wonder sometimes how the province’s natural resources minister might fare if she had to go up against a crowd of fifth graders i...
27 May 2010
Williams to address Canadian Club in Ottawa
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June 9 at the Chateau Laurier. Topic: The Province We Are; The Province We Aspire To Be Mel Gibson Update : The World the Old Man Lives...
The Search for Meaning Challenge
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In this case, the challenge is to find any place in either the official French or unofficial English versions of a recent decision by the Q...
So long. It’s been good to know you.
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If Danny was sticking around, Steve likely wouldn’t be leaving . When long-serving staffers take a hike from a political office it usually...
26 May 2010
There’s crap. There’s bullshit…
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And then there’s natural resources minister Kathy Dunderdale : Mr. Speaker, when the members opposite sat over here they certainly had ...
Don’t mention the war
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It could be an episode of Fawlty Towers . Then again mentioning Germans and industrial development in Newfoundland and Labrador is more l...
25 May 2010
Hail poetry, that heav’n-born pain
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Christopher Lockett writes: …all language is rhetorical. All language is designed to convince us of something. In moving from politica...
24 May 2010
That’s gotta hurt, too: oil prices edition
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The provincial government’s 2010 budget – due to pass the House of Assembly by next Monday – is based, in part, on crude oil average about U...
22 May 2010
The Week’s Toppers: May 17-21
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For those who missed them, here are the top 10 individual posts at Bond Papers for the past five days: The World the Old Man Lives In ...
21 May 2010
Cartoon U 4 – the fishery (part the second)
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By the time this cartoon appeared, the thing was a full-blown scandal. And… Murphy had learned to draw Walter Carter so he didn’t loo...
Local company inks Latin America contract
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The release: The world's largest advertising database will now include data from 13 countries in Latin America as well as introduce gl...
20 May 2010
The Old Man defines The Solution
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Hisself, on May 20, in the House of Assembly : Quebec lovers, if we could only keep the Quebec lovers quiet, Mr. Speaker, it would be n...
Cartoon U 3 – the fishery (part the first)
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Specifically a gear replacement program funded by the provincial government and used by many fishermen as a subsidy to help them upgrade the...
Fortis and Enel getting special treatment from Williams gov under expropriation bill
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At least two of companies whose long-term power purchase agreements were ripped up under the December 2008 expropriation bill will still get...
Special oversight for deep water drilling offshore Newfoundland and Labrador
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From the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Regulatory Board: “It is prudent practice for a regulator to conduct an internal review...
The Protocols of the Elders of Laurentia
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In Hisself’s own words, in the House of Assembly, dutifully and accurately recorded by Hansard, the Old Man describes the nefarious forces ...
19 May 2010
Resting on his Laurels and Hardys
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Danny Williams in the House of Assembly today: Mr. Speaker, 93 per cent is a lot of confidence. That is the kind of confidence I think...
Cartoon U 2
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The thoughtful fellow on the right is Robert Wells, then the newly appointed health minister in 1975 in Frank Moores’ administration. W...
Williams admits taxpayers stuck with bill for his expropriation mess
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While his embattled environment minister blustered and stuck to the old line during Question Period, outside the legislature Premier Danny W...
Tail-gunner Bob: equality is not “a realistic philosophy”
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Bob Ridgley, the Premier’s parliamentary assistant, lays out his own political philosophy: I think she [NDP leader Lorraine Michael] d...
The World The Old Man Lives In (larger picture)
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Click on the picture to get a new larger version that's easier to read and enjoy. Yes, it really is all just a gigantic conspiracy . ...
What’s our policy again?
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Provincial cabinet ministers like to accuse everyone else of not understanding what is going on or of being mistaken. Here’s a typical quo...
18 May 2010
All we want is fairity
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At some point you have to feel sorry for the crowd currently running the province or, as some astute political watchers are calling them: t...
Cartoon U
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Some vintage political cartoons turned up in a hunt through your humble e-scribbler’s parental archives. It’s a small collection of carto...
17 May 2010
Buchans saga deepens: Johnson claims credit for Abitibi work
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CBC may have retracted its story about the provincial government and possible lead pollution at a former mine in Buchans but that isn’t the ...
Reach for the Screech
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In a couple of weeks time, the Memorial University political science department is holding a reunion. The thing is timed to coincide with t...
15 May 2010
Top 10 Posts: May 9 - May 14
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Courtesy of Google Analytics: Lower Churchill: Imaginary Project. Imaginary News Story. Rumpole and the Double Dippity-Do Pot...
The recovery is here all right…
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Someone just forgot to tell the friggin’ Europeans . Crude is hovering at about US$71 a barrel, down the better part of twenty bucks in th...
14 May 2010
Polluter pay?
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At the Telegram, James McLeod hits on a huge problem with the provincial government’s efforts to foist enviro liabilities on Abitibi: who ...
Desperation: NALCOR edition
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As a rule, you don’t enhance your credibility by saying things which are demonstrably at odds with established facts. Take for example a n...
Arrogance never impresses
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Mr. Speaker, that is the difficulties with letting people see these reports when they do not have the technical expertise to be able to i...
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