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16 November 2010
The Dismal Science: Debunking the “federal presence” fairy tale
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Far from being hard done-by when it comes to federal jobs in the province, Newfoundland and Labrador is pretty much on par, according to a r...
15 November 2010
Un-publishing
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No, it isn’t like uncommunication . The Canadian Association of Journalists has a new draft set of guidelines on correcting online informa...
Let’s slap some study on that
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This is a government that talks more and more about less and less . The latest example: a feasibility study of a single province-wi...
The politics of energy subsidies
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From the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies comes a timely rejoinder to the policy in Prince Edward Island of subsidising energy prices ...
14 November 2010
A decade that changed the world
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Talking Points Memo turned 10 this weekend. Here’s the story of how it started, via The Atlantic . Here’s how it looks now and here’s ...
13 November 2010
Small island syndrome
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So get this. The provincial government in Prince Edward Island is going to borrow a bunch of money and turn it over to a private sector c...
Missile: Impossible 3
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The Daily Show gives the Los Angeles Missile story the ending it deserves. Turns out that the California missile was a passenger jet. Th...
Traffic – November 7-12
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The Top 10 Bond posts for the week, based on pageview activity: Lower Churchill: US and NL taxpayers may help subsidize costly big hyd...
12 November 2010
Crude oil r’uh r’oh
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From the Globe and Mail come some words of economic caution about the price of crude: “The energy market has been the Johnny-come-late...
How do you spell winner?
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Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski seems likely to be re-elected in the first victory for a write-in candidate in an American federal election si...
11 November 2010
Remembrance Day 2010
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At the going down of the Sun and in the morning, we shall remember them.
Pass the word
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In Kingston, a new mess at Canadian Forces Base Kingston carries the name of a man who survived internment in a Japanese prisoner of war cam...
10 November 2010
Lest we forget: forgotten edition
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So innovation minister Shawn Skinner will be attending Remembrance Day ceremonies at the “St. John’s National War Memorial” on Thursday. T...
Suzuki Foundation takes aim at Gulf drilling #oilspill
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Kathy Dunderdale might not be too worried about the environmental impacts of an offshore oil spill. Charlene Johnson might have trouble f...
09 November 2010
Mysterious missile off Los Angeles
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The video - shot by a KCBS news helicopter - shows what seems to me a missile fired from the ocean offshore Los Angeles and heading out to...
US labour board files complaint over Facebook firing
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In the United States, the National Labor Relations Board is accusing a company of illegally firing an employee over a comment she made on Fa...
Lower Churchill: US and NL taxpayers might help subsidize costly big hydro project
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Premier Danny Williams is promising a Lower Churchill deal before the end of the year and one way he could finance the project is by offlo...
08 November 2010
How to win without news media
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Texas governor Rick Perry won re-election without relying on conventional news media. Perry shunned editorial board meetings, for example....
My own electoral grandpa: vote in an election that isn’t happening yet
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Danny Williams is worried that local politics is being more like the American system. Much like the more benighted souls in some parts of ...
Kremlinology 28: How will he go?
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Gordon Campbell resigned suddenly last week as Premier of British Columbia. Campbell’s been under considerable political pressure resulting ...
Crude up, but what does it mean?
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Crude oil finished the week on a high , with Brent coming closer to US$90 a barrel than at any time since October 2008. That’s good. Rig...
07 November 2010
Some loveable turncoats
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‘In Newfoundland politics,” wrote Bill Rowe, “you haven’t lost your political virginity unless you’ve knifed your own party in the back and...
06 November 2010
The Traffic Report, November 1 - 5
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No, folks, this is not a summary of Cecil Haire’s morning traffic reports on CBC Radio. But something is going on all the same. Traffic in...
05 November 2010
Shatner – F**k you
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And the original - srbp -
Blaming liberals and the news media
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You can find the Premier’s remarks at the annual Conservative Party fundraiser online at cbc.ca/nl. He’s been down this road many times b...
Drop-out drop detail
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The 2008 report on schools from the provincial education department is a wealth of useful information on one of the most important governme...
04 November 2010
Williams’ shift sends Lower Churchill back to enviro drawing board for second time this year
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As labradore has it, the panel conducting the environmental reviewing the Lower Churchill project is asking NALCOR - the provincial govern...
It gets better
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Sign of the future?
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The opposition leader makes a splash with a simple call for earlier breast cancer screening for women. The cabinet minister issues a long...
The importance of staying competitive
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The Government of Ontario is creating 75 scholarships aimed at attracting top graduate students to Ontario universities. Meanwhile, in an...
Smart politics versus not-smart politics
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In his battle against Reform-based Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper over Equalization, Reform-based Conservative Party leader Danny...
Drop-out rate continues 20 year decline
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The drop-out rate for Newfoundland young people reached 7.4% between 2007 and 2010, according to Statistics Canada , down from an average of...
“Get fiscal house in order” first: analyst
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An analyst with the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council told a conference in St. John’s that the provincial government “has to get its fisc...
03 November 2010
NL offshore drilling ban decision rests with prov gov #oilspill #cdnpoli
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The federal government couldn’t impose a ban on offshore drilling in the Newfoundland and Labrador offshore area unless the provincial gover...
Keith Coombs: financial genius
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Ah, friends, it seems like only yesterday that Keith Coombs wanted to be deputy mayor of St. John’s. And what, pray tell, was one of his m...
Being too negative
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cbc.ca/nl takes a look at negativity and local politics in a report by provincial affairs reporter David Cochrane and a commentary by Randy ...
Stop bullying
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Rick Mercer (via CBC NL ) - srbp -
02 November 2010
The October Traffic - Horrorshow
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14,113 visitors up from 12,500 the month before. 20,039 page views. Despite the drop in air temperature, October was a hot month at Bond...
Anger Management: Conservative version
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Former premier Roger Grimes makes some solid observations in the Tuesday Telegram about the idea of building Muskrat Falls on its own, as...
Lower Churchill: more potato, potato
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Sometimes really interesting things crop up in two stories about the Lower Churchill. Take for example, the likelihood of a deal with Eme...
01 November 2010
Federal briefing note cautions against #oilspill speculation
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A briefing note prepared for federal natural resources minister Christian Paradis describes the potential impact an oilspill offshore Newfou...
Thin-skinned or what?
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It’s the “ or what ” you need to think about. - srbp -
Rumours of his demise…
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Ted Sorensen, Kennedy advisor, White House speechwriter, lawyer, author and Democratic activist is dead at the age of 82. Rumours of his d...
Lower Churchill: Tshakuesh leads quiet resistance to the Old Man’s Dream
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Elizabeth Penashue is opposed to development of the Lower Churchill. She is concerned about what it will do to the environment and what t...
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