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Churchill Falls and Muskrat Falls - Background
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16 January 2011
Iceland opportunity lost
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Danny Williams’ obsession with signing something he could have called a Lower Churchill deal before he quit politics ignored a far better op...
15 January 2011
Connie Leadership 2011: Party delays appeal hearing
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According to the Telegram, the provincial Conservative Party is postponing the appeal into it’s decision on Brad Cabana’s leadership bid. ...
HQ signs new power deal with Vermont
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Starting next year, Hydro-Quebec will ship power to Vermont under a new 26 year power purchase agreement, according to the Montreal Gazette ...
Connie Leadership 2011: Spooky stuff
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In the middle of the 1990s, some guy - a “prominent young St. John’s lawyer” apparently thought the Tories should have a leadership contest...
Dunderball - Traffic for Jan 10-14, 2010
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Who would have thought a mere two months ago that the ruling Conservatives could be embroiled in a political clusterfrack entirely of their ...
14 January 2011
Money for nothing
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A change in lyrics, if ya notice…
No Muskrat Falls in BMO forecast
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Curiously, BMO’s latest economic forecast for the province doesn’t include any reference to Muskrat Falls. The bank’s economists forecast...
Building permits value drops almost 50% in November
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The value of all building permits issued in Newfoundland and Labrador in November 2010 dropped 49.3% from the month before, according to fig...
Paternalism on display
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Members of Danny Williams’ personality cult tend to infantilise themselves and those around them. It’s an expression of paternalism, one of ...
Empty gestures and tells
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The fact that Kathy Dunderdale volunteered a certain comment in a scrum on Thursday tells you it was a prepared line, likely to try and cou...
13 January 2011
Cabinet Shuffle Bored
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The back room plan to slide Kathy Dunderdale into the Premier’s job isn’t going so well. The Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight is back sho...
Connie Leadership 2011: Logically challenged Conservatives
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So if the whole thing was a slam dunk because all the Tories – by their own definition – were backing Kathy Dunderdale and Brad was wasting...
12 January 2011
Connie Leadership 2011: Dunderball Run!
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How many surprising things could we find out on Wednesday in the ongoing soap opera that is the back-room deal to a leadership contest of a...
The persistence of patronage politics
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Former auditor general Elizabeth Marshall made the news this past week in her new capacity as a Conservative senator from Newfoundland and ...
11 January 2011
Connie Leadership 2011: Is anyone surprised?
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Brad Cabana’s candidacy is ruled invalid. The Telly reported based on Cabana’s Twitter feed. CBC reported based on comments by conventio...
Connie Leadership 2011: Acorns and trees
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nottawa succinctly describes the way that Danny Williams’ supporters are applying the lessons he taught them to defeat a challenger to thei...
A sweet energy deal for someone
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The following op-ed piece is from opposition leader Kelvin Parsons. It appeared in several conventional news media last weekend. A sw...
Connie Leadership 2011: Brad and circuses
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Conservative Party insiders are so desperate to block any leadership contest that they are willing to creatively reinterpret the party const...
10 January 2011
Provincial Conservative membership provisions #nlpoli
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Here’s a simple discussion of the membership definitions under the current Conservative party constitution in Newfoundland and Labrador: “...
Connie Leadership 2011: Cabana candidacy causes Connie caucus consternation
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Joe Hickey turned out to be a giant jerk-off but Brad Cabana came out of nowhere and scuttled the carefully laid plans among the province’...
Kremlinology 29: Easybake Tories
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Kremlinology has always been a series about trying to interpret signs to see if they can point out what is going on behind the scenes in pol...
09 January 2011
Connie Leadership 2011: the caucus’ worst nightmare
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Joe Hickey is considering a challenge to Kathy Dunderdale as leader of the province’s Conservatives. The Telegram reports Hickey has the ...
08 January 2011
Traffic for 5K and 50 “members”
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Connie Leadership rigged ? Undisclosed risk: financing the Lower Churchill Connie Leadership 2011: democratic deficit Conni...
07 January 2011
Connie Leadership 2011: for the sake of five large and a gang of kids
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Apparently the requirements for membership in the provincial Conservative Party pretty wide. Might be interesting to see if anyone turns u...
Undisclosed Risk: the cost of freedom is loss
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You won’t hear the provincial Conservatives talking too much about an April 2009 deal to sell surplus power from Churchill falls to Emera i...
06 January 2011
High oil prices threaten economic recovery
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Via the Globe and Mail : "Oil prices are entering a dangerous zone for the global economy," the IEA's chief economist, Fa...
Connie Leadership 2011: editorial kick-back
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From the Thursday Telegram , comes a rather nasty editorial comment on the charade that is the Conservative caucus plan to replace Danny Wi...
Connie Leadership 2011: Persistent Rumour Department
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All Christmas. Jerome! will announce he won’t be running for re-election. Sometime before the end of January, he’ll make a statement. ...
Just imagine…
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For some reason, the Conservative government of Danny Williams wanted to smash Fishery Products International and sell off the bits and pie...
05 January 2011
Connie Leadership 2011: democratic deficit
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The latest twists in the Conservative leadership story are starting to look a bit more like a soap opera than usual even in a place where th...
The Fragile Economy: finance minister complains about his own policies
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Finance minister Tom Marshall thinks its time for the private sector to step in and boost the economy around Corner Brook. “Other than ...
04 January 2011
Connie leadership rigged?
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The fix is in and it must be getting really smelly and obvious if VOCM – aka voice of the cabinet minister - is reporting it: A man claimi...
Leadership by fiat
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The Telegram editorial last Friday took issue with the upcoming coronation of Kathy Dunderdale as leader of the provincial Conservatives a...
03 January 2011
Undisclosed risk: financing the Lower Churchill
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“We had discussions about loan guarantee, and if they’ll do that, we think we could drive hydro rates down even lower and save millions.” ...
02 January 2011
Fin min admits power rates are sensitive issue
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Finance minister Tom Marshall admitted last week that electricity rates resulting from the Danny Williams Legacy project are a very sensitiv...
Dunderdale admits financials are problem for Muskrat project
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In an interview with NTV news, Premier Kathy Dunderdale admitted last week that costs for consumers are a sensitive political issue with th...
Pater knows best
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Telegram editor Russell Wangersky has some suggestions for the provincial Conservatives now that Danny is gone: “Reform the province’s...
Month-end Traffic Report for December 2010
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Is Gerry Byrne completely nuts or what ? Williams to head Rogers sports empire? Connie Leadership 2011 Williams’ abrupt depar...
01 January 2011
The Traffic Week-ender for December 27-31, 2010
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Is Gerry Byrne completely nuts or what? Kathy Dunderdale: the New Paternalism Pop Drop 2010 continues Williams to head Roger...
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