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22 March 2011
Dunderdale government to cure arthritis
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From the Throne Speech : As My Government follows through in implementing its provincial wellness plan and its healthy aging strategy, ...
21 March 2011
New Dawn up for vote yet again
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Apparently, the Matshishkapeu Accord will be back for the Innu people of Labrador to vote on. This must be the final , final, final ve...
Muskrat Falls power may never go to New England: Nalcor
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From Nalcor vice president Derrick Sturge : "Whether all of the energy ever flows to the New England market - who knows? A signifi...
20 March 2011
Libya 1986 - OP El Dorado Canyon
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This is a short video recounting the American air strike against Libya in 1986. The video mentions SA-3 Goa and SA-5 Gammon anti-airc...
19 March 2011
High cholesterol Traffic: Now with extra pork!
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From a pork-barrel almost appointment to a minister welcoming federal pork that never comes, this week the most popular posts are about Cons...
18 March 2011
Cleary to unquit for NDP again?
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Ryan Cleary, former newspaper editor, former talk show host and former NDP candidate is considering another run at federal politics six mon...
The disease spreads
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Scott Reid’s dissection of national politics could equally be a commentary on politics in Newfoundland and Labrador since 2003. Here’s a ...
Provincial government wakes up on EU trade
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Almost two years after your humble e-scribbler pointed out the blatant stupidity of the provincial government’s decision to boycott free tr...
17 March 2011
Inadvertent media humour
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Kelly wins in Corner Brook
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Gary Kelly won the by-election for Corner Brook City council polling 987 votes. He topped a field of five candidates. He ran a campai...
Anyone seen John Hickey?
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Our man in Menihek. The Pavement Putin of the Permafrost. Currently the Labrador affairs minister and reputedly wannabe Conservative ca...
Pushback in New England on hydro lines
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Environmental concerns are causing problems for a proposed electricity transmission line that could help carry Labrador electricity into the...
16 March 2011
Operation Ridiculous
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Usually when one is in a hole, it is a good idea to stop digging. There may be exceptions to this rule, but for most occasions, when you...
Head-scratching and nose-pulling over latest twist in Matthews appointment debacle
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A few of the people steadfastly supporting the provincial government’s pork-barrel attempt to get Elizabeth Matthews on the offshore regulat...
15 March 2011
Where is the Hebron development application?
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Last January , the Hebron partners said they’d be submitting their development plan for Hebron to the offshore board by the end of the year....
No more give-aways indeed: Big Oil’s L’il Buddy considering cash breaks for major oil companies
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According to the cover story in the latest issue of Natural Resources magazine, the provincial government and representatives of the major ...
14 March 2011
Matthews bails on board position
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Elizabeth Matthews is bailing out of her controversial nomination to serve as vice-chair of the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore pe...
Matthews appointment to offshore board kept under wraps until leak
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Flip back to the provincial government news release archive for last December and there’s one thing you won’t see: an announcement appoint...
13 March 2011
Toronto Sun needs oil fact checker
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Here’s the quote: So you’ve got the only oil refinery processing Newfoundland crude owned by the South Korean government, while the oth...
12 March 2011
Good Tory? End of story
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Telegram editor Russell Wangersky maps out the new normal in federal and provincial politics in a devastating column titled “ Lies, the new...
Traffic with no secret appointments (Mar 7–Mar 11)
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Dunderdale boosts Tory support from last Williams poll MOU PIFO 2 The importance of education: education and the economy Tor...
11 March 2011
Getting more women involved in elected politics
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Take a gander at this clip from a recent edition of CTV’s Power Play with Don Martin. It features an interview with Nancy Peckford, executi...
AbitibiBowater, Democracy and the Public Interest
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There’s a new commentary from an Ottawa-based think tank on the AbitibiBowater expropriation. The commentary is basically Brian Lee Crowley...
10 March 2011
Labrador hydro: That 70s Show reruns
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Listening to Leo Abbass on CBC radio Wednesday afternoon, you could almost imagine you were back in the 1970s. Harry Hibbs. Banana sea...
Personal Bankruptcies in Newfoundland and Labrador
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The following chart shows personal bankruptcies in Newfoundland and Labrador from 1991 to 2009. Data is from Statistics Canada, compiled b...
09 March 2011
The secret of life in Newfoundland and Labrador
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The secret of life and comedy is timing. In this case, the secret of life in Newfoundland and Labrador would be the curious coincidence in...
A trading nation: 2011 update
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Newfoundland and Labrador exports more to the United States than any other foreign location. This is a point made in a 2005 post but more ...
08 March 2011
Drilling in Gulf is dangerous and unmanageable
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Marilyn Clark, a Magdalen Islander studying at Memorial University, argues that oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is unman...
The importance of education: education and the economy
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The National Post’s Kelly McParland offered a colourful chart last November comparing a number of things, including federal transfers to p...
07 March 2011
Dunderdale boosts Tory support from last Williams poll: government pollster (revised numbers) #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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Corporate Research Associates issued a correction to its latest polling numbers for Newfoundland and Labrador on Monday and the result is tr...
White Rose field may get GBS
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According to the Telegram, the White Rose partners are looking at using a concrete gravity base structure or GBS. The concrete well-head ...
Tories at 44.5%, UND at 39%: government pollster #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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Double-down Update: CRA's issued a correction that its UND category was 23% as shown in the table not 39% shown in the text. T...
MOU PIFO 2
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For those who haven’t watched it yet, the raw video of fisheries minister Clyde Jackman’s news conference on the fisheries restructuring re...
05 March 2011
Traffic without patronage, Feb 28 to Mar 3
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HMV Provgov pollster seeds ground for bad news A cheaper, green alternative to Muskrat Falls MOU PIFO Are city councillor...
04 March 2011
Charlie or Gaddafi-Duck?
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From the Mirror , a list of comments. You have to pick whether the line came from Charlie Sheen or Muammar Qadafhi. Then try the Vanity ...
So who would be the deputy Max?
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The Atlantic Accord Implementation Act, 1987 allows for the appointment of two vice-chairs at the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore...
Patronage, pure and simple
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Take out a piece of paper and a pencil and it wouldn’t take you very long to write down the names of men and women from the private or publi...
03 March 2011
Birds of a Conservative feather
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Not surprisingly at all, the federal Conservatives now call it the “ Harper government ”. From 2003 to 2010 in Newfoundland and Labrador,...
From the extraordinarily stupid comments file
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The Western Star - the newspaper that previously blamed the opposition Liberals for Danny Williams’ expropriation fiasco – now thinks that...
02 March 2011
HMV
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Danny Williams, on why he got into politics: I was tired of the patronage and the corruption. Well maybe he as tired of half of tha...
35% unsure of Dunderdale
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A new poll by VisionCritical/Angus Reid shows Kathy Dunderdale with the second highest approval rating of premiers across Canada. Saskatche...
A cheaper, green alternative to Muskrat Falls
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Natural resources minister Shawn Skinner has hit on a cheaper, less risky green alternative to the Muskrat Falls megaproject. He didn’t me...
01 March 2011
Association of Seafood Producers responds to Jackman
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Below you’ll find the complete text of a statement issued Tuesday by the Association of Seafood Producers. Key bits: ASP clearly sup...
Labrador Metis to seek injunction blocking Muskrat project
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The NunatuKavut Metis Nation will be seeking an injunction to halt environmental assessment hearings on the Muskrat Falls project, according...
Are city councillors paid enough?
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Debbie Hanlon doesn’t think so. Residents of the city took pains to explain otherwise in the comments section of Monday’s Telegram story....
February Traffic Patterns
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Humber West post mortem From 61% to 44% since August: NTV poll shows Tory support slides further Connies torquing Bev Oda Ch...
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