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Churchill Falls and Muskrat Falls - Background
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19 January 2017
Actions and Words (2016) #nlpoli
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The provincial cabinet has known since January - at least - that the powerhouse at Muskrat Falls is only 15% completed despite a huge payout...
18 January 2017
A bail out, a bail out ... #nlpoli
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Conversation about the province's financial state in the past couple of weeks have turned to talk of bailouts and threats to the provinc...
The Narrative War (2015) #nlpoli
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The day after a massive Liberal victory in the general election, CBC’s David Cochrane posted an analysis piece on the new administration...
17 January 2017
The last man on the moon
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Gene Cernan died on Monday. He was many things in his life but Cernan will be best known as the last man who set foot on the moon during...
Cognitive Dissonance (2014) #nlpoli
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People like things in life to fit together. When things don’t fit together, people get upset. They get fidgety. They try to make thin...
16 January 2017
A muskrat by any other name... #nlpoli
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Memorial University economist Jim Feehan proposed in the December issue of Canadian Public Policy that the provincial government should cha...
The Keystone Kops Ride Again (2013) #nlpoli
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We already knew that the provincial cabinet had abandoned their budget before the document had been debated in the House. That happened la...
13 January 2017
Conservatives and Millennials #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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The talk was supposed to be about the political culture in Newfoundland and Labrador. Does it ever change? What Tim Powers wound up spen...
Toward a fair and just society (2012) #nlpoli
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The December 2008 expropriation bill was not the right thing for the provincial government and the House of Assembly to do. The expropri...
12 January 2017
Debt servicing and revenue, 2013-2016 #nlpoli
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There are lots of ways of looking the government's budget. Here's one that's a bit unconventional. Rather than look at how mu...
Torque wars: media, politicians, and the Muskrat Falls loan guarantee #nlpoli (2011)
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Some people will tell you there the federal and provincial governments have a deal for a federal loan guarantee on Muskrat Falls. The prov...
11 January 2017
Campaign Finance Reform: shifting attention #nlpoli
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Until 1996, there were no campaign finance laws in Newfoundland and Labrador at all. In 2003, the Conservatives promised to make dramati...
Williams announces political exit plan (2010)
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Danny Williams always said that building the Lower Churchill was the only thing he wanted to do before leaving politics. He took a huge ste...
10 January 2017
If only we were New Brunswick... #nlpoli
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Premier Dwight Ball has talked about it. CBC's Peter Cowan tweeted about it Sunday night. If only we were like all those lucky provi...
Behaviour Patterns #nlpoli
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January 2016. Dwight Ball tells reporters in year-end interviews that "everything is on the table" to deal with the government...
Rumpole and Justice Delayed (2009) #nlpoli
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There is no question that our system provides a great method for adjudicating questions of fact and law, but given the expenditure of publi...
09 January 2017
Oil downturn slams petro-provinces' jobs #nlpoli
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The four provinces heavily dependent on oil and gas resources took a major hit in jobs in 2016, according to seasonally-adjusted figures rel...
Media Donations to NL Political Parties #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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Steele Communications and its subsidiary VOCM made a combined total of $23,600 in contributions to political parties in Newfoundland and Lab...
The poverty of "we so po'" rhetoric (2008) #nlpoli
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“People need to understand government cannot write a cheque for everything,” said Williams. “We can’t be all things to all people.” “On...
06 January 2017
Putting the sunk in sunk cost #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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Muskrat Falls is basically an $800 million tax on the people of Newfoundland and Labrador. That's roughly the amount you get using numbe...
Williams concedes on royalties (2007) #nlpoli
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As Bond Papers noted on Thursday, part of the Hebron deal will involve a change to the provincial royalty regime local media are chara...
05 January 2017
Public Support for Muskrat Falls #nlpoli
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Corporate Research Associates isn't the only pollster in the universe, no matter what some people locally seem to believe. CRA release...
The Danny Brand (2006) #nlpoli
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The defining characteristic of Danny Williams' term as a politician - and particularly his term as Premier thus far - has been his rel...
04 January 2017
Books, tents, fishing rods and such #nlpoli
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Don't ask why but Statistics Canada groups books in with sporting goods, hobbies, and music. The picture shows total sales in Newfound...
Taxing our understanding #nlpoli
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Over the past week, there's been a flurry of comment about gasoline prices and the fact that, as of New Year's Day, a provincial sa...
Spending the future (2005) #nlpoli
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" [The change in the province's financial outlook] That's very dramatic ...Some people are going to stand back and say 'Oh...
03 January 2017
Newfoundland and Nutrition in the 1940s #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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Scholarly papers seldom get news media attention. When a paper combines a well-known, emotionally charged issue – aboriginal residential s...
On Meaning #nlpoli
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Brexit supporter and insurance magnate Arron Banks got into a tussle on Twitter late last year with Cambridge classicist Mary Beard. Banks t...
02 January 2017
Praying for a miracle #nlpoli
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People are talking about austerity but the simple truth is the people talking that way have a vested interest in exaggerating what is going...
30 December 2016
2016 in books #nlpoli
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1. Brand Command by Alex Marland. The book that political marketing and communications academics will be quoting for a while to come. ...
Top 10 Posts of 2016 #nlpoli
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These are the posts you read the most of all. 01. Balls digs himself deeper into hole - May 2016 and yet another twist in the tale of E...
29 December 2016
Reality Check: gas tax and debt/deficit #nlpoli
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Comment on Twitter: "If my household spends too much and goes into debt I don't expect others too pay for my mistakes, yet govn m...
Fact-checking CBC and Food Banks #nlpoli
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The headline on the CBC story just felt wrong. The kind of over-the-top exaggeration that just sounds biased. Distorted. Wrong. &qu...
The Tibb's Eve Accord #nlpoli
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Health minister John Haggie said that the health deal signed with Ottawa on Tibb's Eve was the best deal that could be got. Haggie...
28 December 2016
Bullying and Bennett #nlpoli
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Cathy Bennett is the finance minister. She's one of the most powerful and influential people in the province, bar none and certainly sh...
27 December 2016
Policy is people #nlpoli
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Kim Keating is a member of the newly-appointed council to advise the provincial government on oil and gas issues. She's a professiona...
26 December 2016
Beethoven's 9th Symphony
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24 December 2016
O come, o come Emmanuel
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23 December 2016
Canada-NL Health Deal: Warning Signs #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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Late Friday evening, the provincial government announced it had signed a deal with the federal government on health funding. We don't...
Es ist ein ros entsprungen
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22 December 2016
In the bleak midwinter
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21 December 2016
Spin, illustrated #nlpoli
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Spin is a bit more than a mere biased interpretation or a clever reframing of an idea. In other words, there's more to it than saying t...
Ding dong merrily on high
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20 December 2016
Gender Gap - Sunshine edition #nlpoli
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The House of Assembly passed a bill during the last sitting that would allow the government to publish a list every year of all the people w...
19 December 2016
Gender Gap, 2004-2014 #nlpoli
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In 2004, the median income for men in Newfoundland and Labrador was $10,000 higher than the median income for women. By 2014, the gap in ...
15 December 2016
The Darker Side #nlpoli
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The day after Cathy Bennett talked about the hate-filled and threatening messages she'd received after delivering last spring's budg...
14 December 2016
Brutal #nlpoli
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Any Liberals who thought they were out of the political woods got a harsh reminder of the truth on Tuesday. Their leader remains as unpopu...
Townie Elite #nlpoli
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Add Townie Elite to your online reading. Peter Jackson spent 25 years at the Telegram, where he used to write a regular column. Now he&...
13 December 2016
Unacceptable #nlpoli
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Finance minister Cathy Bennett did something very brave on Monday. She did something far braver than carry on without disclosing some of th...
12 December 2016
Six dollars and eighty cents #nlpoli
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We should pay members of the House of Assembly a good salary because they do a hard job that demands much of them and their family. It is ...
09 December 2016
AIMS refutes austerity hysteria #nlpoli #AIMS
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From the latest Atlantic Institute for Market Studies paper: " Measuring Austerity in Atlantic Canada investigates whether the use...
08 December 2016
Poll numbers not very comforting #nlpoli
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A little over a month ago, only about 16 or 17 percent of respondents told pollsters they thought Dwight Ball was the best choice for Premi...
07 December 2016
Megawreck #nlpoli
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Over the past couple of weeks, the people of Newfoundland and Labrador have been shown more and more the lunacy that is Muskrat Falls. Not...
Faint hope #nlpoli
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Nalcor won't be able to install a boom upstream from the powerhouse construction. The result is that there will likely be damage to the...
Get Knotted Doc O'Keefe #nlpoli
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No one should be surprised that St. John's mayor Doc O'Keefe is huffing and puffing over comments by former mayor Andy Wells to the ...
06 December 2016
Policy and sausages #nlpoli
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People like to think the world we live in is run by some sort of magically rational process and the folks in charge are all much smarter tha...
05 December 2016
Mazel Tov Cocktails #nlpoli
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Scottie Nell Hughes is one of the legion of ident-a-bots who turned up on news programs during the recent American election spouting lines f...
01 December 2016
Setting the agenda #nlpoli
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In a set of media interviews this week, Premier Dwight Ball thought he would be talking about what's he learned in his first year in off...
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