There’s likely going to be an election before Victoria Day. If – by some miracle – the Liberals manage to win the Topsail-Paradise by-election next
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Mitigating Muskrat Falls: Ron, Harry, and Hermione are still baffled #nlpoli
Mitigating the impacts Muskrat Falls will have on taxpayers of Newfoundland and Labrador remains the single biggest unanswered question in the province nine years after
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The ins and outs of Equalization #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Each year, Canadian media conduct year-end interviews with politicians and every year the interviews are nothing but space fillers. This year’s version with Premier Dwight
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: A spring election now seems more likely #nlpoli
Here’s the local poll tracker, now that the final party choice poll of the year is in. It’s every party choice poll by any firm
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MQO’s quarterly omnibus poll shows some curious changes in public opinion about provincial political parties. The province-wide numbers are not curious: the changes in a
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Windsor Lake By-Election and polling #nlpoli
Market research firm MQO released a poll on September 10 about the Windsor Lake by-election. They’d surveyed 300 people about how they would likely vote
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The PUB, Exemptions, and Muskrat Falls #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Here’s some background on the issue of Muskrat Falls and Public Utilities Board exemptions. At the end you should know what an exemption is all
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Bay du Nord and Equity #nlpoli
In a staged political event Thursday that was woefully short of basic details, the provincial government and Equinor announced they will proceed with development of
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Electricity prices, risk, and what the editors didn’t say #nlpoli
Okay. What Muskrat Falls will do to electricity prices is not funny. Never was. But what *is* extremely funny are columns like Russell Wangersky’s latest
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Rumpole and the Bleak House #nlpoli #cdnpoli
A scan of the docket for the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador, General Division reveals that the Provincial Court Judges are having another whack
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Rumpole and the Ticking Clock #nlpoli #cdnpoli
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
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Nalcor contractor secrets still safe under revised law #nlpoli
Anyone who cracked out the champagne over the bill that would purportedly shed light on Nalcor’s embedded contractors might want to spit some back in
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: A cabinet, a caucus, and a legislature walk into a bar… #nlpoli
Don’t feel bad. Most people in Newfoundland and Labrador have no idea how our political system works. Self-described experts. Reporters. Pundits. Very often hopelessly lost
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: First Wells ministry, 05 May 1989 #nlpoli
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
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Two solitudes – the pdf version #nlpoli
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 piece when
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Spin, bias, or just wrong? #nlpoli
If four media outlets all reported a story in precisely the same way despite some fairly obvious factual problems with their interpretation, is it spin,
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Conventional media bias #nlpoli
You know what “spin” is, right? Spin is a biased interpretation of something to favour one side or the other. You get spin when someone
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: No room for dissent. No time for silence. #nlpoli
The controversy about The Rooms’ recent request for proposals is not about Muskrat Falls. Maybe someone at The Rooms or within the provincial government thought
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: TDIH: "Quebec paper reports Lower Churchill agreement" #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Two decades ago, there was talk of a deal to develop not one, not two, but three dams in Labrador. The story broke in a
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Muskrat Falls Inquiry Terms of Reference – Comments #nlpoli #cdnpoli
MF Inquiry TOR Commentary EGHollett by Edward Hollett on Scribd
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