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19 August 2010
The Expropriation Fiasco drags on
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Danny Williams hasty, ill-considered and thus far unexplained expropriation of AbitibiBowater assets may well end up costing the people of N...
18 August 2010
Orcas and Minke whales off Newfoundland: video
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Video from Trinity Eco-Tours of an orca pod attacking a minke whale in Trinity Bay Newfoundland: Last week, CBCNL posted video of a si...
Housing bubble bursts – Conference Board
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The hyperactive St. John’s housing market will be slipping back toward demographic requirements in the second half of 2010, according to the...
17 August 2010
The Tory Tao of Political Pork
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For members of the Reform-based Conservative Party in Newfoundland and Labrador, road paving is done in an electoral district. Sometimes, t...
One Big Election
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Back after a brief absence, nottawa poses the provocative suggestion that we might see simultaneous federal and provincial elections across...
Should I stay or should I go?
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Something for everyone. 1. Political humour version – featuring Tony Blair : 2. The original version - The Clash : 3. Ukulele ...
16 August 2010
When it sucks to be you
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What else do you need but a website that takes trendy, hideous business jargon and translates it into plain English? You know the garbage-...
No surprise in Quebec’s position on federal cash
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No one should be surprised that the Government of Quebec is objecting to federal funding of an electricity line between Newfoundland and Lab...
15 August 2010
Williams, Dexter ink secret energy deal …but with whom?
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A service contract between a public authority and a private sector concessionaire, where the public authority pays the concessionaire to ...
14 August 2010
Fact Check: the mainstream and Williams/Quebec
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The following quotes all appeared in recent media stories about Danny Williams’s comments on energy developments and Quebec. Neither of th...
Traffic Drivers, August 9-13
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The Old Man, Old Habits and Old Chestnuts The World the Old Man Lives In NALCOR: the power of constipation Connies, pork and ...
13 August 2010
Finance department reveals low tech privacy shag up
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An unidentified employee in the finance department mailed personal information on 78 applicants to the province’s heating subsidy program to...
A campaign against typos in the Untied States
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Your humble e-scribbler* brought you links to the campaign against typos back when it happened in early 2008 all as a way of segueing into a...
Loyola new ambassador to Dublin next?
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Looks like Loyola Hearn is up for a new job. With former Prince Edward Island Tory Premier Pat Binns shifting from his comfortable digs i...
Housing starts in NL down by 28% in July
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Housing starts in the province were down 28% in July 2010, compared to July 2009 according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation . [Lin...
12 August 2010
The Old Man, Old Habits and Old Chestnuts
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labradore lays bare the foolishness that is the Old Man’s latest anti-Quebec tirade . Score one for His Premierness’s crack research a...
11 August 2010
A summer like no other: torquing in Technicolor on the cheap
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One of the great things about summer for perpetual campaigning is that cabinet ministers can spit out sheer nonsense and reporters for the l...
10 August 2010
A summer like no other: the labradore analysis
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Take a gander at this analysis at labradore of the stunning blizzard of funding announcements from a single ministry in the Williams admin...
Offshore #oilspill review gets indefinite extension
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A provincial government review of offshore oil spill response that was supposed to be done with 90 days will now have an indefinite extensio...
Disclosure and scheduling delay Vermont/Quebec hydro deal
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A 25-year power purchase agreement between Hydro Quebec and Vermont is being held up because of HQ’s concerns about disclosure of sensitive ...
Williams-era capital spending pales in historical terms
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Danny Williams is proud of how much money his administration spends, like, for instance, the amount spent on roads, bridges, schools and oth...
09 August 2010
Connies and "stimulus"
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According to the parliamentary budget officer , capital works projects funded by the federal government's stimulus program are far enoug...
AbitibiBowater creditors meeting
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10:00 AM Eastern Time, September 14, 2010 at the Hilton Montreal Bonaventure. Big ad in the business section of the Monday Globe and Mail....
NALCOR: the power of constipation
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Supposedly all we need is to know that the provincial government’s energy corporation, d.b.a. NALCOR, is “ aligned” and will take all the t...
08 August 2010
Connies, pork and electoral ridings
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On the federal level, the Globe and Mail reports that the federal Conservatives directed federal spending cash from the stimulus program he...
Telly Torques Tourism: one story, two headlines
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Submitted for your approval: the same story with two headlines. “Northern peninsula needs to spark interest: group” as the Telegram put...
Telly Torque: fact checking edition
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A Telegram story on local bloggers includes this statement of supposed fact: Blogs have been discredited by mainstream media because t...
07 August 2010
Anatomy 101 #fail
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Sometimes people can get a bit buggered up in their discussion of technical issues. Like for instance, the hot subject of "liberation ...
Traffic Drivers, August 2 - August 6
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Ah, that explains everything. Holyrood pollution and the Great White Whale Quebec's possible new role as an energy player Kremlinolog...
06 August 2010
Show us the tit and we’ll suck it
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Newfoundland and Labrador is the only place in the western world where private sector businesses look to the government as the key to econom...
NL posts part-time employment gains in July
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After a couple of months of big changes – up and down – in employment, Statistics Canada is reporting the number of people working in the p...
Privatize NALCOR?
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The head of the Newfoundland and Labrador First Party wants to turn Marine Atlantic over to the private sector: “I say privatize it be...
Jerome! if you want to
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So the Premiers are getting together and one of the Premiers can’t go. Let’s say he has a bad back. The meeting is about the economy. W...
05 August 2010
Kremlinology 24: The Whine List
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The Old Man likes to bitch about stuff . After 61 years, he’s gotten good at it. For the past seven years he has liked to bitch about hi...
Coming or going?
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Calamity Kathy Dunderdale , Danny Williams’ hand-picked choice for deputy premier, thinks the future of Corner Brook is built on manufacturi...
Quebec’s possible new role as an energy player
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If exploration turns up a significant amount of oil and gas in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, expect a ton of political weight to shift toward th...
04 August 2010
Ah, that explains everything…
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The Old Man, quoted in the National Post , describes his own political party’s philosophy: We have a Reform-based Conservative Party wh...
Poll Goose, Day Two: 10 of 12
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You’d swear someone was polling. Of the dozen announcements made on Tuesday [ August 3 ], 10 of them either announced public money or warn...
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...
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