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15 November 2016
General Ignorance: Economic Version #nlpoli
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Of all the people in Canada who know something about the Equalization system,. none of them sit in the House of Assembly. Item: Kevin Hu...
The Trump Election #nlpoli
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All you will ever need in order to understand the recent American presidential election is contained in this little chart. It appeared wit...
14 November 2016
Leaders and salaries #nlpoli
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Donald Trump says he won't even take one dollar in salary as president. Sounds familiar. In Newfoundland and Labrador, Proto-Trump...
His best shot #nlpoli
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The most important measurement you need to take of Dwight Ball's great vision for the provincial government is that this is his one, bes...
11 November 2016
Remembrance Day 2016
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Captain Nichola Goddard -srbp-
10 November 2016
Citizenship and Newfoundland's decision to join Canada - Raymond Blake #nlpoli
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From Ray Blake's recent post on the Acadiensis blog: Approaching the constitutional politics of Newfoundland in the 1940s from the ...
Why national history matters - Jerry Bannister #nlpoli
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"Nations matter. National cultures matter. And national histories matter," historian Jerry Bannister writes in his commentary o...
09 November 2016
The real news in one sentence #nlpoli
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According to its supporters, we need to have a special office for search and rescue in St. John's because Newfoundlanders spoke English ...
08 November 2016
Apparitions #nlpoli
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You can go back to September 2006 and find one of the earliest references at SRBP to the impact the aging, shifting population would have on...
07 November 2016
Politics and Theatre
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Adam Schiff is a United States congressman representing the 29th district in California. He's a Democrat. His fictional namesake was ...
Appearance #nlpoli
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What you know of the world outside your immediate physical sensation - what you can touch, taste, feel and so on - is a mental construction....
04 November 2016
North Spur sideshow #nlpoli
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Jim Gordon, a n engineer previously critical about the design of the Muskrat Falls dam has revised his opinion. Gordon had earlier believed...
Feds offer more help with Muskrat #nlpoli
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The federal government delivered a $2.9 billion additional loan guarantee Thursday in time for the Liberal Party convention this weekend in ...
03 November 2016
Muskrat Math #nlpoli
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Stan Marshall told the province Tuesday that the people of Newfoundland and Labrador can never get their money back on this pig of a project...
The polls remain discouraging for Liberals #nlpoli
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Heading into their convention this weekend, the provincial Liberals have another poll that confirms what all the other polls have said for...
02 November 2016
How much do we owe? #nlpoli
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CBC Radio Noon had board of trade president Des Whalen in the studio on Monday. Board of Trade thinks the debt is about $13 billion toda...
The Muskrat Circus rolls back into town #nlpoli
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Stan Marshall appeared out of the shadows on Tuesday to do a round of interviews with every media outlet in town. He told NTV what he tol...
01 November 2016
Building higher walls #nlpoli
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A new government security policy does everything short of banning people from Confederation Building altogether. Visitors to the main gover...
31 October 2016
Ball, Bennett, Williams, and Marshall #nlpoli
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One of the things finance minister Cathy Bennett told NTV's Issues and Answers this weekend was that the Premier Dwight Ball scrapped t...
28 October 2016
Sunshine, lollipops, and fluffy kittens #nlpoli
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Finance minister Cathy Bennett read words that tried to make the provincial government's financial situation sound better than it was f...
27 October 2016
Three for Thursday #nlpoli
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Quebec opposes more federal cash for Muskrat Falls The Government of Quebec has always opposed federal loan guarantees for Muskrat Falls o...
26 October 2016
The Mustafa Principle #nlpoli
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Go back to Friday's post about false choices . That's where you will find the explanation for the 11 hour marathon meeting. The...
Truth and Reconciliation #nlpoli
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Long ago, so long ago no one remembers when, they did away with Virtue in Newfoundland politics. To be on the safe side, they slit the th...
25 October 2016
Small town politics in the big city newspapers #nlpoli
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The federal Liberals created a new process to pick judges for federal court appointments. The process - as the Globe pointed out on Thursda...
24 October 2016
The political dynamics of Muskrat Falls #nlpoli #dip-o-crites #cdnpoli
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The people of Labrador who have now occupied the work camp at the construction site are exercising the only political influence they have in...
21 October 2016
False choices #nlpoli
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It's not often you can see a "half-way" compromise as plainly as the one the provincial government announced on Wednesday abo...
20 October 2016
The Reverse Midas Touch Rides Again #nlpoli
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The crowd running this place these days has an unrivalled ability to look at a problem and find the worst possible response imaginable. On...
19 October 2016
Rumpole and Reversible Error #nlpoli
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Brian Tobin's favourite judge may be on his way to the Supreme Court of Canada but along the way he will probably have to answer a few q...
18 October 2016
The War of the Flea Circus #nlpoli
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Muskrat Falls has become a three-ring flea circus. In the first ring, we have the political ambulance chasers, a.k.a. Maudie Barlow and ...
17 October 2016
Caribous, Choice, and Craziness #nlpoli
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For a while, it looked like one of the island's major communities wouldn't be able to put a senior hockey team on the ice for the ne...
14 October 2016
Refitting the USS Nimitz (CVN-68)
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Ordered in 1967, laid down in 1968, launched in 1972 and commissioned in 1975, USS Nimitz is the lead ship of a class of 10 aircraft ...
13 October 2016
The politics of Sally Albright #nlpoli
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A surprisingly large number of people loved Monday's post about the political impotence of protesting against Muskrat Falls now that the...
12 October 2016
Eeyore and the Blustery Day #nlpoli
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Premier Dwight Ball stood up before a hand-picked crowd at The Rooms on Tuesday and told them they were there to help develop a strategy for...
11 October 2016
The Bigger Picture #nlpoli
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Whatever the provincial government is doing about its own spending or the provincial economy generally or whatever it is up to starts at 9:0...
10 October 2016
Politics as masturbation #nlpoli
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"I am warning you. Don't make me wear my pikachu costume." Demonstrations at Memorial University and at Nalcor headquar...
07 October 2016
Sweat Equity - new ISER book on housing policy #nlpoli
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Sweat Equity Cooperative House-Building in Newfoundland , 1920–1974 C.A. Sharpe and A.J Shawyer "The lack of decent urb...
06 October 2016
Canada's Dippers: taking the democracy out of politics #nlpoli
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The guy who didn't know what electoral district he lived in likes proportional representation. Provincial Dipper boss Earle " M...
The trouble with transparency - CADO version #nlpoli
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"How do you deal with a government computer system that is hopelessly out of date it wants you to 'update' your Internet brows...
05 October 2016
The trouble with transparency #nlpoli
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Last week, the provincial government's communications gang tweeted a picture, which we have reprinted on the right. It was supposed t...
04 October 2016
The Strategic Two-Step #nlpoli
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There's a sheet of paper taped on the underside of one of the drawers in the Premier's desk on the 8th Floor. It's very old...
03 October 2016
The Way Forward #nlpoli
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Last December, Dwight Ball laid out his plan to deal with the provincial government's financial problems. Ball made the comments to CB...
30 September 2016
Jerome! rides again #nlpoli
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Retired justice David Riche is the only independent person who has examined any information about Don Dunphy's death. Hired by the Roy...
29 September 2016
The letter Peter Whittle got #nlpoli
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This is the letter Peter Whittle got from his colleagues on the school councils federation executive. Whittle resigned today.
Samson sale price "reflective of risk": Galgay #nlpoli
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Jonathan Galgay sent along an email to add some information to the post last week about the city's tax assessment for the property at...
28 September 2016
Through others' eyes #nlpoli
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For Newfoundland's pseudo-intellectuals, the Toronto Globe and Mail is a kind of one-handed reading material. They use one hand to sc...
27 September 2016
No help, not my department, and missing records #nlpoli
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Starting a little over a hundred years ago, the Government of Newfoundland publishing a list of public servants by name, showing their job...
26 September 2016
Illegal deletions okay in NL: access commissioner #nlpoli
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Shortly after he took office a month or so ago, newly appointed information commissioner Donovan Molloy told CBC there had been a " su...
23 September 2016
Reforming the way government works #nlpoli
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Conservative and New Democrat goons are fapping themselves into a frenzy on Twitter over Bern Coffey's appointment as Clerk of the Execu...
22 September 2016
City assessed school property at sale price #nlpoli
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City councillor Jonathan Galgay attacked the school board and the provincial government over the sale of IJ Samson school for $189,000 after...
21 September 2016
Not talking but talking about something #nlpoli
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It took them a few days but the folks at Nalcor managed to put out a statement that addressed the possible talks with Hydro-Quebec about the...
20 September 2016
Grits and Cons play dodge-fact over Labrador hydro talks #nlpoli
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"There are no discussions between this government and the Quebec government." That's part of a statement sent out by email...
19 September 2016
Worst possible time for HQ deal #nlpoli
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If the rumblings from Labrador are correct, an opinion column in lapresse - "Why Quebec should regain Labrador" - this weekend bo...
16 September 2016
Changes in the fishery #nlpoli
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Your humble e-scribbler was on The Broadcast with Jane Adey, discussing the campaign to split the inshore fishermen from the FFAW. Give it ...
15 September 2016
Prov gov finances headed south #nlpoli
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The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador is offering its bonds on the American market, according to Bloomberg News . VOCM reported it lo...
14 September 2016
The cost of silence #nlpoli
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The St. John's Board of Trade and the provincial Employers' Council aren't happy that the government has shelved its plans for a...
13 September 2016
A no-holds-barred review #nlpoli
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Bill Rowe started out with a bright future. Rhodes scholar. Youngest cabinet minister in the province's history. Leader of the Li...
12 September 2016
Million dollar baby #nlpoli
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The provincial government has paid more than $830,000 to Wade Locke and companies with which he is associated since 2003, according to infor...
10 September 2016
Best Choice for Premier #nlpoli
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Premier Dwight Ball has the lowest leader choice numbers of any Premier in Newfoundland and Labrador since November 2000. The chart shows ...
09 September 2016
A clear course to dangerous political shoals #nlpoli
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Lots of political activists are looking at the latest CRA quarterly poll . The Liberals think it is great that they are rebounding so qu...
08 September 2016
Dependence and Independence #nlpoli
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For those who might be interested, Tuesday's post on Churchill Falls and Wednesday's post on the road to Muskrat Falls are a summa...
07 September 2016
Jerusalem, Eldorado, and Perdition #nlpoli
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Part I: The development of our country _______________________________ The Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador website "aims to pro...
06 September 2016
Flip. No. Flop. No. No. Wait. Flip. ... #nlpoli
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01 August 2016 - " Continuing continuity " “This is not about cutting,” Ball told reporters on Thursday morning at a news confer...
The development of our country #nlpoli
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Today, the development of Churchill Falls is popularly perceived as a failure. Newfoundland is portrayed as the victim of a shrewd and untr...
05 September 2016
Switching feeds #nlpoli
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Some of you noticed a problem on Monday morning with the Twitter posts from SRBP. You sent me a message and I fixed the problem. The solu...
Supporting and Opposing #nlpoli
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If you get any kind of enjoyment at all out of watching people tie themselves in knots, point out to a New Democrat that their party suppor...
02 September 2016
Two for Friday #nlpoli
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There's a long weekend coming up, so here is a simpler post. There'll be an SRBP post on Monday but the biggie for the week should...
01 September 2016
We won't walk to a nearby walking trail #nlpoli
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The Town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay commissioned a consultant to look at possible future development of a sand pit in a residential area of t...
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