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Churchill Falls and Muskrat Falls - Background
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23 May 2011
Dunderdale using rigged deck against public on Muskrat Falls
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Whenever anyone moans about the 1969 power contract with Hydro-Quebec they can thank the last four Premiers of Newfoundland and Labrador – f...
21 May 2011
Victoria Day Weekend Traffic Report
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Here’s what people were reading at Bond Papers last week: Dunderdale and her desperation Dunderdale to hide important Muskrat detai...
20 May 2011
Shocker: Marois wrong on Penashue
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Parti Quebecois leader Pauline Marois thinks federal intergovernmental affairs minister Peter Penashue can’t be fair to Quebec. Marois t...
Dunderdale in action: One Homer moment after another
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Danny Williams used to talked in Sarah Palin-like terms about all the reading he did. He could never say what it was he was reading but app...
19 May 2011
Dunderdale opts for mid-level bureaucrat as CEO
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Not so long ago the province’s chief electoral officer was a career public servant usually of deputy minister rank. Then Danny Williams de...
Long awaited report still under wraps
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The Danny Williams administration hired former Supreme Court Justice Bill Marshall to do a couple of reviews for them. In 2005, they asked...
Dunderdale and her desperation
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Kathy Dunderdale is trying desperately to hide details of her Muskrat Falls megaproject from public scrutiny. You can also tell she is tr...
18 May 2011
Dundernomics 101
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All Dunderbunny Speaker Roger Fitzgerald has done is ensure the word “dundernomics” gains wide circulation. Here’s what it is all about: ...
Speaker Dunderbunny shows his bias again
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Roger Fitzgerald is undoubtedly one of the most incompetent Speakers ever to hold office in the House of Assembly. He is also one of the b...
Dunderdale flips and flops: Muskrat Exemption Errata
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Simple subject. Mondo inaccuracies. Ginormous confusion Tuesday was not a good day for anyone trying to figure out what the provincial...
17 May 2011
Dunderdale to hide important Muskrat details from scrutiny/oversight #nlpoli
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Premier Kathy Dunderdale may like to tell people her Muskrat Falls project is the lowest cost option to supply the province with electricity...
16 May 2011
Talk radio on agenda for national political science association
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Memorial University political science professors Matthew Kerby and Alex Marland are looking at politics in the province and talk radio again...
No Dunderdale in Tory battle of Kilbride
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Incumbent member of the House of Assembly John Dinn is facing at least one challenger for the Tory nomination for this fall’s general electi...
14 May 2011
Friday the 13th Traffic Report
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In a week of disruptions and hiccups at ye olde Bond Papers, let’s see what people were reading: Fortis on Lower Churchill: No thanks!...
13 May 2011
Offshore board opens bids on three parcels
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From CNLOPB : The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) announced [on May 12] the details of the 201...
11 May 2011
How west coast Newfoundland could beat the Lower Churchill
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Take a look around the energy markets right at the moment and anyone with half a clue will be wondering why Kathy Dunderdale and her provinc...
10 May 2011
NB to seek offshore accord with feds
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Via Canada East : New Brunswick needs a federal-provincial agreement on offshore oil and gas exploration, along the lines of those sign...
For the world is hollow…
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Okay so a bunch of people are spilling ink or pixels or whatever over a bunch of new members of parliament elected in Quebec as if they were...
09 May 2011
Fortis on Lower Churchill: No thanks
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Fortis had a chance to join in the Lower Churchill project but passed on it because the company has a policy of [not] taking a minority inte...
08 May 2011
Not a Mommy Blogger…not that there’s anything wrong with that
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A few weeks ago, your humble e-scribbler stumbled across St. John’s Toddler, an exceptionally well done local blog by Erika Pittman. Whil...
07 May 2011
Election Week Traffic, May 2011
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Big week with lots of fascinating political developments, not the least of which was finding out that Al-Qaeda would admit what the Canadian...
06 May 2011
Not keen on government subsidies
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While it may have slipped by in the election hoopla on Monday, the people who decided to vote in a CBC online poll made it pretty clear they...
Crude drops below US$100
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West Texas Intermediate crude oil for June delivery fell below US$100 in New York trading Thursday. Brent crude, the benchmark for Newfou...
05 May 2011
Shocker: local candidate not important
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Canadian voters tend not to pay much attention to the local candidate. Your humble e-scribbler made the point earlier on Thursday in a len...
Separated at Birth: two and a half men edition
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Realtor Jim Burton. Jon Cryer: - srbp -
How do they elect these candidates?
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Craig Welsh is a bastard who used be be from St. John’s. Now he lives in Iqaluit where he spent some time the other day pondering some of th...
04 May 2011
This is just the beginning
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People seem to forget that the federal New Democratic caucus was already made of people who seemed a little… what’s word… sketchy. The lat...
The Dunderdale Referendum, encore
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Pretty well every single conventional media outlet ran a story in the wake of the federal election about how the results might affect Kathy ...
Jack knows jack
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Living in the west end of St. John’s out by working dairy farms you get used to the smell of cow manure and chicken crap. Nothing however,...
St. John’s South-Mount Pearl: Vote Results Commentary
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Take a look at the vote results in St. John’s South-Mount Pearl in the last four federal general elections and you can see the dramatic swit...
03 May 2011
Why the Liberals lost…and the way ahead
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You will read plenty of commentary on this election and the overwhelming majority of it will be complete and unvarnished horseshit. Put it...
Election 2011 Witticisms
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With a Conservative majority, odds are good senate reform will move along in the near future. That could resurrect the idea of a Triple E ...
St. John’s South-Mount Pearl: some first observations #elxn41
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Jack Layton is the new member of parliament for St. John’s South-Mount Pearl. Remember those signs? It wasn’t an accident the most vis...
The Dunderdale Referendum Election #elxn41
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Premier Kathy Dunderdale and her team of provincial Conservatives decided to throw their weight behind the federal Conservatives in this ele...
02 May 2011
Dunderdale admin pours more cash into Corner Brook paper mill
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On top of the millions in subsidies it has already provided to Corner Brook Pulp and Paper (Kruger), Kathy Dunderdale’s administration ann...
Bin Laden is dead!
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From the New York Times account: In a dramatic late-night appearance in the East Room of the White House, Mr. Obama declared that “jus...
Change is in the air… or maybe not #elxn41
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In Election 2011, perhaps more so than any other recent election, people can see the shortcomings of national opinion polls. They may capt...
01 May 2011
April Showers Traffic for 2011
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A fascinating month of April for traffic at ye olde e-scribbler’s corner of cyberspace shows a wind range of stories. There’s the surprise...
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