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19 July 2011
Like Momma always said…Part Deux und Trois
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The only funnier thing than a guy up on assault charges claiming he is a wannabe Tory candidate are opposition party politicos who campaign ...
18 July 2011
And Harry won't be running either
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Conservative cabinet minister Harry Harding won't be seeking re-election in this fall's general election, according to media reports...
Free tuition at NL university for Nova Scotians: NL NDP leader
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The Newfoundland and Labrador local of the New Democratic Party wants taxpayers in her province to give Nova Scotians free tuition at Memori...
16 July 2011
Traffic that never flip flops
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The weekly top 10 Bond Papers posts for the week of July 11 to 15, 2011, selected by you, the readers. Forecasting the fall All thr...
15 July 2011
Telly takes wind out of Muskrat
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The Telegram editorial on Thursday linked the Muskrat Falls project with the recent announcement by Kruger Inc of a wind energy project in ...
Did I say yes to Muskrat? I meant “no”: Jones
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Political decisions in Newfoundland and Labrador are apparently like the local weather at least as far as the current crop of party leaders ...
Aquaculture centre opened three years behind schedule, more than 100% over budget
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Premier Kathy Dunderdale opened an aquaculture centre in the south coast community of St. Alban’s on Thursday three years after it was supp...
14 July 2011
Ahem
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From the e-mail inbox this week came a gentle reminder from Kevin Kelly, editor at the Herald: Just wanted to point out that in last we...
Pesticide ban regulation not even written yet
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While everyone may think the provincial has banned the cosmetic use of pesticides, a quick check with the province’s environment department ...
Labour crunch coming
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Only the naive or the demented would portray the looming labour crunch in the province as a “tremendous opportunity”. A report released o...
The Ballot Question: October 2011
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Here’s the question for voters to decide in this fall’s general election as the party leaders themselves have defined it. If you want: ...
13 July 2011
Public sector job growth outpaces private in NL
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From labradore : In the five years since the recent-historic low, in early 2006, of about 55,600 public-sector employees, the public-s...
Not much to see
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The Telegram’s Russell Wangersky looked ahead to the fall election and didn’t like what he saw. Wangersky’s assessment is brutal but it i...
A world of their own
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Kathy Dunderdale showed up in the province again to talk about the wonderful reception her Muskrat Falls megadebt project got from the New E...
12 July 2011
Cross yet another one off your list
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Intergovernmental affairs minister Dave Denine won't be seeking re-election this fall, according to media reports. So much for the cla...
All three NL parties back Muskrat project
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Voters in Newfoundland and Labrador who are worried about the current Tory administration’s plans to double the public debt and public elect...
The placeholder election
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No matter what the outcome, all three political parties in the province will have new leaders before the 2015 contest. In December, the To...
11 July 2011
Political parties and debt: the Kennedy perspective
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Political parties usually carry around debt. Some carry more than others. Some parties don’t carry any. Is it an issue? Maybe. Just ...
Forecasting the fall
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Pick up a sharpened pencil. Now take a clean, white sheet of paper from the computer printer. Close your eyes and make a small round mar...
You might know it as bribery, Ma’am
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The eagle eyed nottawa picked up on something in a column by Michael Johansen at the Telegram. It’s a reference to a cash payment due to ...
10 July 2011
Wally Young’s in trouble
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You can tell the Tories are worried about their support in St. Barbe because they’ve scheduled not one, not two, but three announcements in...
Dexter admits NS didn’t do Muskrat Falls homework
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In an interview with The Coast , Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter admits his government didn’t exercise due diligence before signing onto...
Strangling energy innovation
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The Telegram editorialists are finally putting it all together, at least when it comes to the provincial government’s energy company, the M...
09 July 2011
Traffic for people lined up at the Basilica
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This was an amazing week in Newfoundland and Labrador politics. Summer arrived with a vengeance, traffic at the humble e-scribbles is bac...
08 July 2011
Sucker bet: windy moose version
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The guy who did such a bang-up job of looking after the Hurricane Igor disaster is now the guy leading the fight against moose-vehicle col...
07 July 2011
Makes it official, then
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Noob Bloc NDP member of parliament Ryan Cleary is apparently getting some criticism. Here’s the way Voice of the Cabinet Minister reported...
Okay, so it wasn’t a bus after all
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But that doesn’t mean natural resources minister Shawn Skinner escaped completely unscathed from his episode on Backtalk on Wednesday. Her...
Skinner throws AG under bus
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[ Updated in another post ] Natural resources minister Shawn Skinner threw outgoing Auditor General John Noseworthy under the bus on Wedne...
And there goes another one
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Jim Baker , incumbent Conservative in Labrador west announced today he won’t be seeking re-election in the fall. Baker claims he made the ...
06 July 2011
And this just in from K-L-A-N News…
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The headline : “Financing Announcement for Foreigners to NL This Afternoon” The little script story had less objectionable language ...
Republic of Moose
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In an announcement that had absolutely no ties whatsoever to the current election campaign, the provincial government today tossed $5.0 mill...
Loan guarantee for Muskrat Falls “electioneering” says NDP MP from Quebec
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Noob Bloc NDP member of parliament Raymond Cote made it clear on Tuesday he disagrees with his party on a loan guarantee for the Muskrat Fal...
05 July 2011
Skinner makes false statement in letter to Telegram editor
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Natural resources minister Shawn Skinner is writing more letters to the editor of the Telegram these days that the former Open Line hydro q...
04 July 2011
Definitely cabinet material
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A man arrested for allegedly assaulting police officers with an electric drill says he plans to seek the Provincial Conservative nomination ...
You say potato, I say road apple
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Kathy Dunderdale thinks it’s all much ado about nothing. Dunderdale commented in response to a Telegram editorial that noted a set of rep...
02 July 2011
Trade talks with Europeans = “doing a back-room deal with a group of serial rapists”
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What your humble e-scribbler said : this guy could be an accident waiting to happen. Wait no longer. After musing about breaking h...
AG finishes term with more fumbles
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Outgoing auditor general John Noseworthy held to his pattern of making less-than-accurate claims or claims without evidence, this time with ...
That Was The Canada Week That Was
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Political mythology was the top of the reading list here at Bond Papers in the days leading up to Canada Day. The top post noted that a na...
01 July 2011
Innu vote overwhelmingly for something
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The Innu of Labrador voted overwhelmingly in favour of something on Thursday. News media are calling it the “New Dawn” agreement and say ...
The Tops for June
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Muskrat Falls. Provincial Tory political fortunes. Those are the two main themes running through the most popular posts for June. N...
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