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19 April 2012
The Budget-Spending Disconnection #nlpoli
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The provincial government announced on Wednesday that they will spend $2.0 million to fund new child care spaces across the province. ...
18 April 2012
The Wet Bandits, Taliban version
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One mid-level Taliban commander turned himself in to Afghan authorities in order to collect the reward mentioned on the BOLO poster local au...
Sick parade #nlpoli
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When you are home with a cold, there’s not much to do besides doze and read. And when you are a political nerd at home with a cold, what b...
17 April 2012
De apples and de oranges #nlpoli
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You’d swear that provincial government departments had to hit quotas of good news media releases. Environment minister Terry French issued...
An alternative to A Grit-Dipper merger #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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Okay so this is about the federal parties, but Rob Silver has a provocative idea. But why not start a discussion between Liberals, New...
Drug stores, mail carriers, and Muskrat Falls #nlpoli
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As your humble e-scribbler pointed out in August 2011 , the province’s drug store owners lost their fight against lower drug prices for cons...
16 April 2012
Our Secret Nation #nlpoli
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Comedian Greg Malone is writing a book. The title is Don’t tell the Newfoundlanders: the true story of Newfoundland’s Confederation with ...
Our failed state #nlpoli
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The always sharp labradore has posted links to a report by the Foundation for Democratic Advancement on election finance laws across Canada...
13 April 2012
OK Go – Needing/Getting
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A little something to cleanse your brain of all this political stuff. - srbp -
The Voice of Experience #nlpoli
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Most of the people who have been talking about search and rescue the past couple of years – especially the politicians – know absolutely not...
12 April 2012
DND to shut down 5 Wing base housing #nlpoli
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From David Pugliese at the Ottawa Citizen: ■ Military housing at Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Toronto, Vancouver and Winnipeg ...
Fun Facts: Hibernia gas and Holyrood #nlpoli
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From Stephen Bruneau’s submission to the public utilities board hearing on the Muskrat Falls project: In 2010, the withdrawal and use ...
Breastfeeding Controversy for HITS FM #nlpoli
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HITS FM morning crew has stirred a bit of controversy for his remarks on April 11 about breastfeeding. There’s an excellent account of it...
Torquing public safety #nlpoli
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Search and rescue on the east coast of Canada is one of those cases where you can complain that all three political parties - provincial an...
11 April 2012
Another critique of Linda Ross #nlpoli
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In a CBC Radio commentary [audio link] Heather Davis - a former co-ordinator of the women’s centre in Corner Brook – criticises the Adviso...
So then what will they do? #nlpoli
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Let’s make no bones about it. Even at the deepest darkest moments after the death of Meech Lake, federal-provincial relations were never ...
10 April 2012
Afghanistan Infantry Firefight
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A short video from an unspecified rotation by 3rd battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry in Afghanistan. The video is from ...
Nalcor backs natural gas for electricity #nlpoli
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Just for a bit of fun, go back to December 2010 and read about Ed Martin and his views on generating electricity from natural gas. Fascin...
And in other Muskrat Falls news… #nlpoli
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The Telegram editorial: Oh, so now it's electricity for mining ventures that need the power. So here's a question for the good...
09 April 2012
If you ain’t got yer pride, Muskrat Falls version #nlpoli
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Natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy, speaking with David Cochrane on this weekend’s On Point with David Cochrane : “What we have ...
A fresh smear of lipstick #nlpoli
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CBC’s online version got the story right from the most recent episode of On Point with David Cochrane : Natural Resources Minister Jero...
07 April 2012
Word of the Day: gormless #nlpoli
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Russell Wangersky : At this point, the Official Opposition is floundering around looking for an issue, and they can't see that they...
06 April 2012
Patronage and seals… #nlpoli
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Thursday’s announcement by fisheries minister Darin King should give you a pretty big reminder that the local political scene remains mired ...
05 April 2012
Common sense – the rarest element #nlpoli
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There’s a tee-shirt. This one is from zazzle And it is true. Common sense is so rare these days it should be classified as a super po...
Time to end the despicable abuse #nlpoli
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Through her shouting and bawling it is hard to know if Yvonne Jones does not know what she is talking about or does not care. Either way, ...
04 April 2012
Offshore Board Lays Charges Against Suncor #nlpoli
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From CNLOPB (with some style edits): The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) has laid three charges aga...
The excitement is obvious #nlpoli
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That’s a screen capture of the CBC online story about something srbp told you about last December . It speaks for itself. - srbp -
Remember these words #nlpoli
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When asked in the House of Assembly about the company hired to look at some aspect of using offshore natural gas to generate electricity, P...
And if she was wrong about that, too… #nlpoli
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There are two things in this world. There is what actually happened. And then there is what Premier Kathy Dunderdale says. The two hav...
Credit rater gives Emera “negative” outlook #nlpoli
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The Chronicle Herald reported Tuesday that credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s had changed its rating for Emera from “stable’ to “ne...
03 April 2012
Arrogance, thy name is Tom Marshall #nlpoli
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Speaking on VOCM’s Open Line on Tuesday, finance minister Tom Marshall explained what will happen in the House of Assembly during the Muskra...
The Charge of the Lightweight Brigade #nlpoli
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The provincial government got the public utilities board review on Muskrat Falls on Saturday. Two days later, Premier Kathy Dunderdale did...
If she was wrong about this… #nlpoli
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As we told you on Monday, the ever attentive labradore caught Kathy Dunderdale in a pretty outrageous comment last week on the impact the f...
The PUB and the MFers #nlpoli
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Right off the start, the title goes back to a humorous tweet a few months ago. It went something like this: If Muskrat Falls is MF, th...
02 April 2012
A fundamental lack of competence #nlpoli
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One crowd can’t even successfully rig a process they set out to rig from the start. So now the Premier wants to have a debate she earlier...
Electricity regulator balks at judgment on Muskrat project #nlpoli #nlpoli
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From the report by the public utilities board on Muskrat Falls: The Board concludes that the information provided by Nalcor in the rev...
Numbers and other information #nlpoli
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People aren’t stupid. They just don’t know stuff. Politicians are no different. In Kathy Dunderdale’s case, labradore had an absolutel...
How stupid are voters, anyway? #nlpoli
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Poke around some political websites over the past couple of months and you’ll find a few columns on the question of how much voters are payi...
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