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23 June 2010
Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Hiring Test (Communications Director)
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The provincial government is looking for a few new communications directors. Standards are high. Not everyone can do the job. The publi...
The Fragile Economy confirmed
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BMO Capital Markets lays out the scope of the problem: Newfoundland & Labrador [sic] saw a sharp 10.2% real GDP contraction in 200...
The language of Shakespeare
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On the one hand, you have the regular performances of Julius Caesar at Cupids, site of the of early 17th century English colony. There...
22 June 2010
Brazil to expand oil production
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From UPI: RIO DE JANEIRO, June 22 (UPI) -- Brazil will spend $224 billion in five years on doubling its capacity for oil production and...
A Crown corporation by any other name
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A company that has received almost $3.5 million in federal and provincial government money since 2006 is getting another $300,000 from the ...
Today in history
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June 22, 1990. The Meech Lake Accord died. In Manitoba, Elijah Harper refused to give the consent needed to bring the Accord to the floo...
19 June 2010
Gulf #oilspill economic impact not what it seems
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Crude is currently trading eight percent below where it was the day the BP rig in the Gulf of Mexico blew up. CBC quotes a TD economist a...
Weekly Traffic Drivers, June 14-18
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Sun News? Ya gotta be kidding Telling quotes: Lower Churchill version Eventually the other guys will lose (Newfoundland and ...
18 June 2010
Weather is here…Russian junket version
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1. What a total waste of time! What politician, any time in the history of human civilization ever went on a lovely trip to a foreign la...
International Can Opening: Gold hits new record
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Gold is up again - a record US$1,248 an ounce - based on economic problems in Europe and the United States. Oh yeah. Bring on the reco...
The World of the Psychic Economic Forecaster
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On the one hand Jeff Rubin is in St. John’s telling audience that oil will be back in triple digit pricing within six months and will stay t...
17 June 2010
Opportunity for comment – Hebron project
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From the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board: “The public is invited to comment on the draft Comprehensive Study R...
NB Connies argue over pork
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New Brunswick Conservative member of parliament Greg Thompson – who isn’t planning on running for re-election – says that Conservative cabin...
16 June 2010
We thought *you* had jobs for *us* - Russian version
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The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum is about encouraging foreigners to invest in Russian development. The focus of this yea...
Sun News? Ya gotta be kidding
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Think of it this way: Less news. More boobs. -srbp-
The Le Petomane School of Government
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“Work, work, work” Among the bills passed or on track to be passed in the current sitting of the House of Assembly: Making i...
15 June 2010
Save the Jolly Rock Lighthouse
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Is there a facebook group for this yet? Should be. Part 2 Part 3 -srbp-
Kremlinology 22: House sitting and bills passed
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The current sitting of the House of Assembly is slated to finish next Tuesday – Wednesday at the latest – and by the time it rises the the H...
Eventually the other guys will lose…
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A couple of weeks ago, your humble e-scribbler picked up a story at the political science reunion. It was about a bunch of university types...
14 June 2010
Telling quotes: Lower Churchill version
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The Premier made a few telling comments in the House of Assembly today about the imaginary Lower Churchill project. Asked about interest ...
The M-shaped recovery
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You’ve heard of the W-shaped recession. Now think about an M-shaped recovery in the middle. Rather than two dips and then a rise, this wou...
13 June 2010
Roger Fitzgerald’s bias
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Is Speaker Roger Fitzgerald biased? The answer for any thinking person is unquestionably “yes”. The most famous example of Fitzgerald’s ...
12 June 2010
Weekly Traffic Drivers, June 7-11, 2010
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Salma Hayek and Maria Bello freak out over snake (link to Huffington Post ) Harper and Williams share love of total message control ...
11 June 2010
Paul Lane – bigger ambitions?
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Is Mount Pearl city councillor Paul Lane - described by the Telegram recently as a long-time Conservative - going to seek the Conservativ...
10 June 2010
Counter-spinning negativity – Jerome! version
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So there’s Jerome! trying to spin the Ottawa speech to Randy Simms over at Open Line. Big crowd. Sceptical at first but then slowly realis...
Gushue on blogs
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Over at John Gushue’s Telegram column , you’ll find some wise advice and observations about blogs and blogging. John’s been the force be...
09 June 2010
Salma Hayek and Maria Bello freak out over snake
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Via HuffPuff:
Live blogging the Old Man at the Chateau
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12:58 PM (Eastern): It’s great when you can get the mainlanders to read stuff your publicists cranked out. No fact-checking. 1:00 PM: T...
Vermont’s energy future found… in Quebec
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Sometimes it takes a while for news to reach your humble e-scribbler. Still, news from this past March is topical. Seems that Vermont a...
Will anger-ball performance still work with mainland media?
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The Old Man’s publicists decided to let the world in on his sooper sekrit speaking engagement in Ottawa with a media advisory issued at 9:0...
Air ambulance controversy - curious ATIP redaction may hold clue to full story
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A briefing note prepared for the province’s health minister in early September 2009 may contain important clues to when a decision was taken...
08 June 2010
Enviro minister of denial
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Charlene Johnson, by some accounts the province’s environment minister, answering a question in the House of Assembly about a potential oi...
Working mills versus a catastrophe
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As part of its restructuring efforts, AbitibiBowater just announced the company has offloaded four mills and some other wood products plant...
There are gulfs and then there are #oilspill gulfs
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labradore explains in graphic detail the gulf between the Old Man’s bland assurances that such things could never happen here and what an ...
07 June 2010
Harper and Williams and message control: the second parts
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The second part of Canadian Press’ expose . And for good measure, the second part of the 2006 BP series on the local version of the same ...
06 June 2010
Harper and Williams share love of total message control
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Steve has Message Event Proposals. Danny just controls everything. The first in a series by Canadian Press ( h/t @stphnmaher ) and a th...
Weekly Top Traffic Drivers: May 31 – June 4
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Lower Churchill decision up in the air, indefinitely The World the Old Man Lives In Lower Churchill cost estimates skyrocket ...
05 June 2010
Famous Comments by Telegram editors
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1892: ‘I’m certainly not buying any argument the city will burn to the ground.” 1894: ‘I’m certainly not buying any argument that the co...
Oil’s down, budget pucker factor up …again
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When you project an average price of oil at US$83 and forecast a billion dollar budget shortfall on that basis, having oil at US$71-ish mus...
04 June 2010
Physician heal thyself: Dunderdale version
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Natural resources minister Kathy Dunderdale displaying her now-usual level of unjustified arrogance: I advise the Leader of the Opposi...
The pictures tell another #oilspill story
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Natural resources minister Kathy Dunderdale, as quoted in a recent Telegram editorial: Mr. Speaker, in terms of an oil spill offshore...
03 June 2010
Very lucky indeed
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The Old Man Hisself , in the House of Assembly this week, speaking of the $14.7 billion Lower Churchill project , arguably one of the most e...
Enviro minister trades with the enemy
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Sometimes it’s hard to know which is funnier: environment minister Charlene Johnson’s repeated attempts to be arrogant and condescending ev...
Williams party support drops nine points
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Support for the Danny Williams Conservative party dropped nine points in three months according to the latest poll results from the provinci...
02 June 2010
Lower Churchill costs: now up to $14 billion and counting
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According to Premier Danny Williams, the Lower Churchill project – which he estimates at a cost of up to $12 billion - is “ the lowest cost...
North Amethyst pumps first oil
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A few things to note about the news that the White Rose extension field – called North Amethyst – pumped its first oil this week; It t...
01 June 2010
How not to do social media
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Kudos to the City of St. John’s for adopting a great way to build strong effective relationships with citizens. "It's importa...
May Stat Porn
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From May 1 to May 31: 13,508 visits. 19,427 page views. Top 10 pages: The World the Old Man Lives In Lower Churchill: ...
Like we told you: Lower Churchill decision up in the air indefinitely
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The nugget of news buried in a front page story in Saturday’s Telegram [not online] turns out to be dead on: there is no timeline to sancti...
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