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13 September 2011
To you with affection from Danny #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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Anybody who is even vaguely aware of Danny Williams’ attitude to the CBC during his term as Premier will realise what an amazing thing it wa...
12 September 2011
Word Clues
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According to the St. John’s Board of Trade , “Newfoundland and Labrador’s considerable assets include …[a] captive consumer market worth ove...
Williams set to offer comms director plum patronage job before he quit #nlpoli
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In his final days as Premier, Danny Williams was poised to offer Elizabeth Matthews - his communications director – a plum patronage appoin...
11 September 2011
Political Gender Issues
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Astonishing as it may seem to some, the supposedly progressive political party in Newfoundland and Labrador isn’t the one with the most wome...
9/11/01
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On missing the point
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Mark Watton has been leading the charge against sections of the province’s election laws that allow people to vote when there is no electio...
10 September 2011
SRBP on Radio: Muskrat Falls
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For those who missed it, here’s the audio from your humble e-scribbler’s Labour day call to Open Line. h/t to Dave Adey who has been re...
Traffic for September 5 – 9, 2011
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ya know that something is going on when the traffic at ye olde e-scribbles starts jumping up by 25% from the previous month. And that’s a ...
09 September 2011
Aylward questions Nalcor on choice of consultant
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Liberal leader Kevin Aylward has sent a letter to Nalcor boss Ed Martin asking about Nalcor’s use of Navigan t as the consultant the company...
Dateline: Desperation, Newfoundland
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Finance minister Tom Marshall called the province’s major radio talk show on Thursday to promote the Muskrat Falls power project. He quote...
08 September 2011
And he is known by the company he keeps…
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With the anniversary of 9/11 coming, people seem to have forgotten an invitation that went out to President Barack Obama to come to the prov...
Rideout tags Tories for election pork-fest #nlpoli
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Former premier Tom Rideout didn’t mince words about the orgy of pork-barrel spending his former caucus colleagues have been pushing in the r...
There’s no greater fraud than a promise not kept … Goose Bay version
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While one can argue about frauds and unkept promises, there’s certainly no greater laugh riot than listening to defence minister Pete MacKay...
Danny, Gary and Steve: old inconsistencies die hard
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Apparently your humble e-scribbler isn’t the only one who found it amusing that an anti-Harper former premier is campaigning in pro-Harper ...
07 September 2011
The Joy of Political Giving: Look for the Union label
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The single biggest political donation, bar none in 2010 did not come from any private sector business. It came from the United Steelworker...
The Joy of Political Giving: if you want to build it, they will give
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Construction, design and engineering companies gave the provincial Conservatives $239,725 in political donations in 2010, according to figur...
RCMP investigating SNC Lavalin officials over corruption allegations
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigating officials of the engineering firm SNC Lavalin, according to media reports on possible corrup...
06 September 2011
The Joy of Political Giving: punch in the bake edition
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It’s always interesting to see who gives to political parties. The province’s chief electoral office quietly released the 2010 summary of...
What you can see at the horse race…
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Horse race polls are the heights of political journalism* in some circles despite the fact they tell very little about what is happening in ...
We can always sell it…
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You can tell the gang pushing Muskrat falls are having trouble meeting the arguments against their scheme to jack up power rates and the pub...
Election 2011 and the Resource Curse
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During the current provincial election you are going to hear a lot about natural resources and the need to spend the money that comes from i...
05 September 2011
Democracy Watch: Duff’s guff #nlpoli
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Let’s get it simply stated up front: Democracy Watch is the most inappropriately named organization on the planet, bar none. They don’t w...
The Politics of Cynicism: even worse than thought edition #nlpoli
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If they accidentally accumulate enough credits to a form a government after the next election, the provincial New Democrats will keep taxing...
04 September 2011
BNL and BBT at ComiCon 2010
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The Big Bang Theory Labour Day marathon is about to start! - srbp -
03 September 2011
Looking beyond normal
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labradore wasted no time in converting the numbers from Friday’s editorial in the Telegram into a chart to show the number of money annou...
Traffic Flow: August 29 – September 2, 2011
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Robots in dead heat (poll goosing) NL ratepayers to carry full load for Muskrat falls plus more The Politics of Cynicism, NDP st...
02 September 2011
Grand Riverkeepers call Joint Review Panel Report “victory” for Labradorians
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From the Grand Riverkeepers news release: HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, LABRADOR, NL – “The Review Panel’s report reflects what we have b...
The Old Blue Goose
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When the three posts on the provincial Conservatives’ communications strategy first appeared here in August and September 2006, people who ...
01 September 2011
The Politics of Cynicism, NDP style #nlpoli
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One could hardly imagine a better way to bitch-slap the carefully fabricated Legend of Jack Layton than Lorraine Michael’s news release ann...
Our plastic history revisited
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One of the earliest posts among these e-scribbles dealt with a proposal – in 2005 – to rework the Colonial Building. The plan was to fix...
Et maintenant, le deluge…
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In his regular column in the Wednesday edition, Telegram editor Peter Jackson succinctly explains why Kathy Dunderdale’s Muskrat Falls sche...
Summer Polling Month Top 10
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The weather may have been da pits but this was the sweatiest Summer of Love pre-election poll goosing month in recent Conservative Party his...
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