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Churchill Falls and Muskrat Falls - Background
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17 July 2010
Traffic Drivers: July 12-16
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General and master corporal face charges over relationship When will she get the flick? HQ and NALCOR on same side in US transmis...
16 July 2010
And it only took a year…
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Fisheries reform is a success. Well, that is if “success” means employing legions of bureaucrats to engage in endless meetings that produc...
15 July 2010
The Fragile Economy: hard numbers
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As labradore has been putting it in a series of posts, the provincial public service in the first half of 2010 comprises 53,780 people work...
14 July 2010
September contrasts
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Earth, Wind and Fire: And a cover version that isn’t Earth, Wind and Fire: - srbp -
The energy hub and the loose wheel
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Summertime is the season when politicians get to travel. For example, take the annual meeting of governors from the New England states and...
13 July 2010
If you could get him for what he knew…
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Some politicians just don’t know when to stop. On Tuesday, new Democratic Party member of parliament Jack Harris (St. John’s East) did an ...
Labour Force Comparison – a first look
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last week’s release of the latest labour force numbers from Statistics Canada prompted your humble e-scribbler to go back and try a comparis...
12 July 2010
General and master corporal face charges over relationship
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From the Department of National Defence: Charges Laid Following Brigadier-General Ménard Investigation CFNIS NR – 2010-11 - July 12,...
When will she get the flick?
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A political science professor at Memorial University developed a computer program to help predict when a cabinet minister will get fired.* ...
The ferry tale of New Ferrole
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Not exactly destined to be a Christmas classic but a tale that is nonetheless as misshapen as the dental work of any Pogue’s front man. Th...
11 July 2010
HQ and NALCOR on same side in US transmission line play
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Both Hydro-Quebec and NALCOR Energy support development of a $2.0 billion power line into New York city. Newfoundland and Labrador...
10 July 2010
Traffic Drivers, July 5 to July 9
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And no fish swam NB opts for second nuke over Lower Churchill Economic recovery - not exactly as illustrated, part deux Offs...
Labour force trending
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Friday’s labour force data from Statistics Canada got a fair bit of news time, largely for the reported drop in employment in Newfoundland a...
09 July 2010
NL posts 8k job loss in June
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The Newfoundland and Labrador economy shed 8,100 jobs in June, erasing gains posted in May. That’s according to figures release on Friday b...
08 July 2010
NB opts for second nuke over Lower Churchill
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The Government of New Brunswick today signed a letter of intent to study construction of a second reactor at Point Lepreau. "The ...
New NS-NB intertie to cost $200 million
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Nova Scotia and New Brunswick will need to build a new $200 million intertie within the next decade, according to the Chronicle Herald. Th...
Are you smarter than a cheese grater, now?
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Remember that fisheries research cash announcement that seemed to have been cobbled together within the past six weeks? Well, there’s a b...
07 July 2010
Economic recovery – not exactly as illustrated, part two
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cbc.ca/nl is reporting an economic miracle in Grand Falls-Windsor. That’s the town where the major private sector employer closed its doo...
Building permits continue downward slide
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The value of building permits in Newfoundland and Labrador fell from $114 million in March to $65 million in May, according to figures relea...
06 July 2010
Offshore board announces two more call for bids on offshore parcels
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The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board today announced calls for bids on offshore parcels in the Flemish Pass/Cent...
Another new era…
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Last Friday, it was a new era in fisheries research, supposedly. Truth be told, a government that either doesn’t know what to do on a subj...
05 July 2010
And no fish swam
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For an administration that has always been better known for delivering the sizzle rather than the steak, Premier Danny Williams’ announcemen...
04 July 2010
Tentative deal at Vale in Ontario
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From the Globe and Mail : The end to a long-running and bitter strike in Ontario is in sight as mining giant Vale announced it reached...
The harsh reality
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While someone in the provincial government may have decided that an estimated population increase of 96 people was something to crow about, ...
03 July 2010
Traffic Drivers, June 28 to July 2
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NL population up by estimated 96 people (28 Jun) Potential investor quits mill talks, accuses government of “overt politicization”: ...
02 July 2010
The Delusion of Competence
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Natural resources minister Kathy Dunderdale, in full rhetorical flight during Question Period in the legislature, May 26, 2010: Mr. Sp...
When the quota of good news meets a failure to perform
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The provincial government’s business department issued a news release today crowing about an estimated increase of the province’s populatio...
WGB re-releases original album on CD this Saturday
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Straight from the release: “The Wonderful Grand Band is pleased to announce the release of its very first record album The Wonderful Grand...
Calamity Kathy’s story doesn’t add up
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From a cbc.ca/nl story posted on Wednesday June 30, here’s natural resources minister and deputy premier Kathy Dunderdale after the people ...
01 July 2010
Beaumont Hamel
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If you want to know more about the attack at Beaumont Hamel, July 1, 1916, being remembered across Newfoundland and Labrador today, visit th...
June Traffic Drivers – Happy Canada Day!
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Of the 12,500 visitors who read 17,260 pages in June, these are the top 10 pages for the month: Sun News? Ya gotta be kidding Five...
Forget-me-not 2010
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