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17 May 2019
The 1908 Election all over again #nlpoli
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You will hear a lot of spin about Thursday’s election result. Doesn’t matter where it is coming from. It is all spin and all spin i...
16 May 2019
Poor Ed's Almanac - a hot summer is coming #nlpoli
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The prospect of a minority government coupled with the need to pass a budget in the legislature after the election could produce a long, ho...
13 May 2019
Ego, Brain Farts, and Electoral Reform #nlpoli
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Public ignorance of our political system is a scourge. Tackling that is the first step to meaningful electoral reform in Newfoundland and ...
09 May 2019
The Abacus Poll for Election 2019 #nlpoli
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The chart below looks like there has been a huge jump up and down in “no choice” and a corresponding big change in party choice but actua...
08 May 2019
Election 2019 - First Poll #nlpoli
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While the MQO poll shows the Liberals in the lead, a new poll from Abacus - released with an hour of this appearing - will likely show tha...
06 May 2019
The Financial Reality of Election 2019 #nlpoli
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The financial reality confronting any administration after May 16 is the same regardless of which party wins the election. The governm...
30 April 2019
Voter Turn-out and Popular Vote Shares of Parties, 1949 - 2019 #nlpoli
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Election turn-out has been declining steadily for provincial elections since the mid-1990s. The 2019 general election is on track to show ...
29 April 2019
Where do elections come from? #nlpoli
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From fixed election dates to the number of candidates that run in an election, what Newfoundlanders and Labradorians believe about one of ...
22 April 2019
Restoring Power - Mitigating the Impacts of Muskrat Falls #nlpoli
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Left untended, the Muskrat Falls project threatens the financial well-being of the government and people of Newfoundland and Labrador. The t...
17 April 2019
Budget 2019 - revised trends #nlpoli
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Budget 2019 was an election budget in the sense it contained a lot of little goodies, but there was nothing to get overly excited about. W...
16 April 2019
A CHEAP Framework - the PC and Liberal Muskrat Falls plans #nlpoli
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The Conservative and Liberal Muskrat Falls rate mitigation plans are the same. Both include magical assumptions of revenue. Both omit cru...
15 April 2019
Budget 2019 Context #nlpoli
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Most of the commentary about Budget 2019 on Tuesday will be focused on the short-term. Here are some slides that show longer-term trending....
09 April 2019
The 2005 and 2019 Federal-Provincial Agreements #nlpoli
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The Atlantic Accord functions in Newfoundland and Labrador politics in two ways. There is the agreement between the Government of Canada a...
08 April 2019
The Atlantic Accord: background to the 1985 agreement #nlpoli
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The Atlantic Accord functions in Newfoundland and Labrador politics in two ways. There is the agreement between the Government of Canada ...
01 April 2019
Gaslighting a society #nlpoli
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Saturday morning and Facebook delivered a video clip of Peter Mansbridge accepting a lifetime achievement award. After the obligatory tha...
26 March 2019
Everyone loses: new MQO poll for NTV #nlpoli
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On the eve of an anticipated election call, voters in Newfoundland and Labrador turn up their noses at everyone currently on the field. Th...
18 March 2019
Banning plastic bags and public policy in Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli
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Effective public policy must be based on a clear understanding of the problem and its relation to other issues, as well as public needs and...
04 March 2019
Unformation #nlpoli
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Changes in the news media, changes in the audience, and changes in what information organizations provide to the pubic have created the U...
18 February 2019
Seven Days of Books in One #nlpoli
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The seven books from my part of the book challenge, with each described by the respective publisher's blurb: 1. The myth of the stron...
11 February 2019
The Politics of Beige #nlpoli
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The trend is impossible to miss. Utterly undeniable. Since early 2016, through poll after poll, voters in Newfoundland and Labrador ha...
07 February 2019
Napalm sticks... #nlpoli
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The latest poll from MQO is being reported as a statistical tie by NTV , while CBC says it shows a "neck and neck" race between t...
04 February 2019
The Turmoil and Topsy Turvy #nlpoli
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With so much changing in any office, what has "always" been done really only goes back to the time of the last person who came i...
30 January 2019
Election year a time for serious issues #nlpoli
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This originally appeared in The Telegram , 30 Jan 2019. Budget consultations are not the place for serious discussions of government f...
28 January 2019
Turmoil, unusual #nlpoli
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A petro-state with political instability is a pretty weird idea but then again we *are* talking Newfoundland and Labrador. The Governm...
19 January 2019
The Spring Election - when and why #nlpoli
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There's likely going to be an election before Victoria Day. If - by some miracle - the Liberals manage to win the Topsail-Paradise by-...
03 January 2019
Mitigating Muskrat Falls: Ron, Harry, and Hermione are still baffled #nlpoli
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Mitigating the impacts Muskrat Falls will have on taxpayers of Newfoundland and Labrador remains the single biggest unanswered question in...
28 December 2018
The ins and outs of Equalization #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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Each year, Canadian media conduct year-end interviews with politicians and every year the interviews are nothing but space fillers. This ...
17 December 2018
A spring election now seems more likely #nlpoli
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Here's the local poll tracker, now that the final party choice poll of the year is in. (CRA Q4 Omnibus ) It's every party choice ...
06 November 2018
The MQO poll and Party Choice #nlpoli
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MQO's quarterly omnibus poll shows some curious changes in public opinion about provincial political parties. The province-wide numbers...
24 September 2018
The Windsor Lake By-Election and polling #nlpoli
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Market research firm MQO released a poll on September 10 about the Windsor Lake by-election. They'd surveyed 300 people about how the...
18 August 2018
The PUB, Exemptions, and Muskrat Falls #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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Here’s some background on the issue of Muskrat Falls and Public Utilities Board exemptions. At the end you should know what an exemp...
27 July 2018
Bay du Nord and Equity #nlpoli
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In a staged political event Thursday that was woefully short of basic details, the provincial government and Equinor announced they will pr...
03 July 2018
Electricity prices, risk, and what the editors didn't say #nlpoli
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Okay. What Muskrat Falls will do to electricity prices is not funny. Never was. But what *is* extremely funny are columns like Russell...
20 June 2018
Rumpole and the Bleak House #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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A scan of the docket for the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador, General Division reveals that the Provincial Court Judges are havi...
11 June 2018
Rumpole and the Ticking Clock #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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There are rules about how long a judge may take to issue a decision. Now, now. The lawyers among you are already spitting their morning ...
25 May 2018
Nalcor contractor secrets still safe under revised law #nlpoli
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Anyone who cracked out the champagne over the bill that would purportedly shed light on Nalcor's embedded contractors might want to spit...
22 May 2018
A cabinet, a caucus, and a legislature walk into a bar... #nlpoli
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Don't feel bad. Most people in Newfoundland and Labrador have no idea how our political system works. Self-described experts. ...
08 May 2018
First Wells ministry, 05 May 1989 #nlpoli
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May 5, 1989 was a Friday. It only took the couple of weeks between the election on April 20 that year and May 5 for the government to...
30 April 2018
Two solitudes - the pdf version #nlpoli
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This is an article I wrote a couple of years ago for The Dorchester Review. (Volume 6, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2016. I posted about the ...
12 April 2018
The Stunnel report and public policy in Newfoundland and Labrador politics #nlpoli
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The "pre-feasibility study update" released on Wednesday into a fixed link across the Straits to Labrador (a.k.a The Stunnel) i...
09 April 2018
Spin, bias, or just wrong? #nlpoli
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If four media outlets all reported a story in precisely the same way despite some fairly obvious factual problems with their interpretation,...
02 April 2018
Conventional media bias #nlpoli
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You know what "spin" is, right? Spin is a biased interpretation of something to favour one side or the other. You get spin...
07 March 2018
No room for dissent? No time for silence. #nlpoli
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The controversy about The Rooms' recent request for proposals is not about Muskrat Falls. Maybe someone at The Rooms or within the pro...
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