As we slide into the fall general election’s open campaign period, some of you might find it interesting to ponder Jay Rosen’s recent post about the current state of political reporting in the United States and Australia. This is more a thought po…
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Random Post in Latin: People Called Romans, They Go the House
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Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Uniting the Left: a reminder
So with the Liberal meeting in Ottawa, the idea of uniting the left is coming back around again. Not surprisingly, Liberal leader Bob rare is pissing on the idea. Now Bob’s reasoning may be somewhat different than the one your humble e-scribbler of…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Muskrat Falls: lost opportunity
The claim: Nalcor stated in its final submission to the Panel that without the Project the Province would lose an opportunity to create long-term revenue to fund social programs. [Joint Review Panel, final report, Page 18] The real…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Dead Robots in Heat
So the old poll goosing habit dies hard. There’s the robot poll goosing of the Question of the Day at Voice of the Cabinet Minister. Think about it: such a habit, they’ve now automated the process. And in its editorial on the last Monday in…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Rumpole and the Black Letter
Local barrister Averill Baker is threatening to sue the Crown prosecutors for persecution based on their recent application to have her tossed off a case for being in a conflict of interest. The nature of the conflict of interest is complicated. …
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Robots in Dead Heat
As labradore notes, the latest question of the day online poll at Voice of the Cabinet Minister comes close to setting a record for vote totals. It is second to another question about Muskrat Falls from last December. Just so everyone is clear: B…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Random Post in Latin: rebellious edition
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Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Nalcor Royalties: yet more information
Part 1: Resource give-away Part 2: Nalcor Royalties – more information Nalcor estimates the company will pay anticipated royalties to the provincial government totalling $2.06 Billion dollars. That’s from th…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Paving the way
Paving and asphalt companies in the province gave $52, 575 in political contributions to the provincial Conservatives between 2004 and 2009, according to figures available from the province’s Chief Electoral Officer. But the same companies gave a me…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Random Post in Latin: Coat of Arms edition
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Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: JFK’s speech on religion and politics
Religion played a huge role in the 1960 presidential election. Specifically, Republicans questioned how John Kennedy would govern, given that he was a practicing Roman Catholic. A group of 150 Protestant ministers and laymen publicly oppos…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Muskrat Falls: what an independent review really looks like
The provincial Liberals included a handy table with their Friday news release on the joint federal/provincial environmental panel’s report on Muskrat Falls. The chart compares what the environmental panel said would be a thorough, independent revi…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: MF Traffic Report
Turns out the MF deal is a mf, at least for the political fortunes of the gang who cooked up the scheme to ship discount power to Nova Scotia paid for entirely by the taxpayers of Newfoundland and Labrador. The week that an environmental panel demolis…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Three MF Amigos split up #nlpoli
Liberal leader Kevin Aylward may have personally been waffling about Muskrat Falls a week or so ago, but his position has shifted: An Aylward led government would immediately halt all spending on this project and establish a truly independent analy…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Random Post (Not) in Latin: no garters, no glory edition
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Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Muskrat Falls fails joint federal/provincial environmental review #nlpoli
… if the recommended economic and alternatives studies show that there are alternative ways of meeting the electricity demands of the Island over the medium term in a manner that is economically viable and environmentally and socially responsible,…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Random Post in Latin: voice of the guns edition
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Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Joint environmental panel slams Muskrat Falls #nlpoli
The federal and provincial governments released the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency review of Kathy Dunderdale’s Muskrat falls project. Big fail, across the board. Like no one could possibly have seen that one coming. More to follow… -…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Compounding the abuse #nlpoli
It wasn’t bad enough that the province’s special ballot laws make a mockery of democracy. For the 2011 general election, the province’s elections office is opening 12 special offices across the province in addition to the existing 48 electoral d…
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