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Churchill Falls and Muskrat Falls - Background
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03 August 2010
As pure as the driven snow…
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But besides the scientific reasons, Gilkinson said there is a political reason for the trip as well. He said under United Nations rul...
02 August 2010
Polling month starts in earnest: five of six announcements detail public spending
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August is polling month for the provincial government’s pollster. You can tell because on the first working day of the money, cash announce...
The politics of financing post-secondary education in Newfoundland and Labrador
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Nottawa lays it out very neatly: It's a political masterstroke. Having already taken all the political credit for the revenue gene...
01 August 2010
Holyrood pollution and the Great White Whale
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According to the Telegram , Holyrood town council is expected to vote this week to ask the provincial energy company and the provincial gove...
The July Drivers
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Maybe you were one of the 11,472 visitors who hit 15,026 pages at Bond Papers during July. If you were, odds are you enjoyed these, the 10...
31 July 2010
Quebec and Vermont to keep talking power
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Quebec and Vermont have extended the July 31 deadline to reach a long-term power purchase agreement but officials quoted by Bloomberg are o...
Traffic Drivers, July 26- Jul 30
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Bristol collapses owing more than $6.0 million . Three on a match and then some: another failure of taxpayer cash give-away policy. ...
30 July 2010
iPhone mania (with picture)
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A determined gaggle of iPhone devotees lined up in several places across Canada on Friday to get their latest fix. This shot is outside th...
Sins of omission
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“Five key bridges in the western portion of the T’Railway Provincial Park that closed in 2008 are now re-opened to park users. … [The fiv...
Game on! Feds and Quebec start talks on Gulf Accord
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The Government of Quebec and the federal government started talks recently aimed at achieving an agreement on revenue sharing for any oil an...
29 July 2010
Did he expense that?
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Right on the heels of a new appointment for something called a “ legislative assistant ” comes a news release that tells us that Ed Bucking...
28 July 2010
Kremlinology 23: a little something for everyone
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Newbie member of the House of Assembly Paul Davis picked up a rather conspicuous new job on Tuesday. He is the new legislative assistant ...
27 July 2010
Bristol collapses owing more than $6.0 million
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The unexpected collapse of regional marketing firm Bristol leaves a string of secured and unsecured debts totalling more than $6.0 million. ...
26 July 2010
The past in our digital present
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What happened yesterday is a way of understanding what is happening today. Here’s a macro retweet of @suenew – King’s professor Sue Newho...
Three-on-a-match and then some: another failure of taxpayer cash give-away policy
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The list of failures is growing for the Williams administration give-aways of public money to businesses. In late 2008, Progress Software...
25 July 2010
A view into the afghan War
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1. A leaked document describing events at Combat Outpost Keating and Observation Post Fritschie is posted at the New York Times website. T...
24 July 2010
DFO doesn’t do research: the video proof
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Here is proof from CTV that the Department of Fisheries and Oceans does not do fisheries research . It is not like this story doesn’t have...
Inaccurately accurate university enrolment trends
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This past week, CBC Radio’s Morning Show interviewed Reeta Tremblay, Memorial University vice president (academic) about a Statistics Canada...
Traffic Drivers, July 19-23
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There is a green hill (not so far away) Telly web design sucks, kills RSS feed to popular content Drill baby drill: Dunderdale...
23 July 2010
The Irish Miracle
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From a Globe and Mail article on some of the human consequences of the Irish economic disaster: After almost 20 years as Europe’s str...
22 July 2010
Telly web design sucks, kills RSS feed to popular content
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While most readers here liked to click out to links at the Telegram , the design geniuses at TransCon have decided they don’t need the tra...
Offshore board releases complete #oilspill response plans
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From the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board: “The CNLOPB wishes to advise that Operator Oil Spill Response Plans wi...
Drill, baby, drill: Dunderdale rebuffs Quebec concerns about border, offshore oil spills
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In a letter to Quebec natural resources minister Nathalie Normandeau, Newfoundland and Labrador deputy premier Kathy Dunderdale said that th...
21 July 2010
Scientists find new sea creatures near deep water oil exploration sites
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Scientists from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, three Canadian universities and the Spanish Institute of Oceanography have discovere...
There is a green hill (not so far away)
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So with Jay going over the hill in Ottawa, speculation is starting about who else is going to leave Stephen Harper’s fold before the next e...
The Cutting EDGE
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Introduced in 1995, the Economic Diversification and Growth Enterprises program – known as EDGE – is the most successful economic developmen...
20 July 2010
New 500 MW intertie for NS and NB
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New Brunswick Power and Nova Scotia Power are looking at the prospect of building a new 500 megawatt connection between the two provinces. ...
Forever blowing bubbles
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We are in a bubble. I think we are in a protected bubble . That’s Danny Williams making a few observations at the close of the most re...
19 July 2010
Semrau guilty on one count; not guilty on all others
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A Canadian Forces court martial found Captain Robert Semrau guilty of behaving in a cruel or disgraceful manner on Monday but found him no...
Government website still POS
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It’s July 19, 2010 and while the Department of Government Services has updated its website design, the whole thing is still aimed at browser...
Fragile Economy – The Public Sector
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Last week, labradore comments on the size of the provincial labour force occupied by the provincial government public sector. He capped it...
18 July 2010
Success by the wrong measure
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As you’ll discover fairly quickly in reading a Telegram story on class sizes, the idea of capping the number of students per class is aim...
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