You can tell if a provincial opposition party politician supports Kathy Dunderdale’s Muskrat Falls plan by how many words it takes to explain his or her position. New Democratic Party leader Lorraine Michael proved the point on Wednesday with a news…
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Random Post in Latin: ALF edition
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While there will be a general election in Newfoundland and Labrador this fall, there isn’t one at the moment. And yet, the province’s chief electoral office is proudly encouraging people to cast a special ballot if they need to do so. Peop…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Power of Confusion: The Three Amigos Update #nlpoli
Premier Kathy Dunderdale doesn’t understand the criticism of the federal government’s recent announcement of a loan guarantee for the Muskrat Falls megadebt project Provincial NDP leader Lorraine Michael, for one, has been crapping on the announce…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Subsidizing subsidized industry…somewhere else
“Curiouser and curiouser”, cried Alice, so overcome by the photograph that she momentarily forgot how to speak English properly. “Is it some sort of uniform?” “Might well be,” her companion said, “since they are all members of t…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The secret of life, comedy, and politics
Timing. The ever watchful labradore notes that after Danny Williams mucked around with the appointments for the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador, they have taken place in November. No one would be surprised to find out that this is a month when the…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Venus in Furs: Muskrat Falls edition
There’s a kind of political writing that makes you squirm. On the face of it, and in isolation, a sentence can be perfectly correct. The problem comes when the politician, political staffer or bureaucrat puts that perfectly correct statement i…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Layton’s Legacy
As far as Jack Layton’s political legacy goes, Shakespeare got it wrong. The good he did will not be interred with his bones. Jack Layton was a man of good will who sought to do good in politics. You’ll hear lots of that in the days ahead f…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: On the Summer Reading List
The Oprah Winfrey Book Club this ain’t, but for those who might be hunting around for something to read, consider these books your humble e-scribbler picked up recently: How to write a sentence and how to read one by Stanley Fish. This may …
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Misleading the House: recall the whole recall power story
Why would Nalcor mislead the people of Newfoundland and Labrador, asks finance minister Tom Marshall with all the seriousness he can muster. Yes folks, the fellow with one of the worst cases of pinocchiosis politica ever seen in this province wonders …
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Kathy Dunderdale is setting a record for changes in the senior public service.Dunderdale upped her score last week with a single announcement that made seven changes at the executive director and to assistant deputy minister levels. That brings her tot…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Twitter Psychology Insight
Via the always insightful Neville Hobson, came a link to a wonder little diagram that summarises the results o a recent survey of Twitter users. You can find Neville’s post at the bizarrely named nevillehobson.com. And you can find the original at …
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Playing in Traffic, August 15 to 19, 2011
There will be some other big news next week, but for now, here’s what SRBP readers wanted this past week: Sun TV/Fix News wannabe? VOCM hits new low. (The story disappeared the next day) Westcott packs it in. Bloc NDP MP backs T…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: No Kathy for Kent
Danny’s gone from Steve Kent’s website. In fact, the website that hadn’t been updated since 2007 is gone entirely, replaced with a new one. So hasty was the old one hauled down – after it featured prominently here – that there’s even a no…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Muskrat Falls Loan Guarantee Memorandum of Agreement
From the NRCAN website: In its June 3, 2011 Speech from the Throne the federal Government expressed its commitment to support the lower Churchill River hydroelectricity projects, as an important action to support our broader objective to develop Ca…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Slide a sheet of paper: the spend ‘em if ya got ‘em edition
Earlier this week, finance minister Tom Marshall announced a second increase in the estimate for offshore oil production for 2011 and with it an increase in provincial government revenues. Marshall claims the money will go to paying down the public de…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Offshore board responds to helicopter inquiry report
From the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board [paragraphing altered for readability; original here]: The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) today responded to the final report of the Offshore He…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Abercrombie offers cash for “Jersey Shore” to stop wearing brand
How valuable is a brand? Well, apparently their brand is so valuable that Abercrombie & Fitch is willing to pay the cast of “Jersey Shore” sizeable amounts of cash in order to stop them from wearing Abercrombie clothes on air, according to cnn…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Separated at birth: missing cat edition
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Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Feds to announce MOU on loan guarantee
NTV News broke the news reported Wednesday evening that an unspecified number of federal cabinet ministers will be in St. John’s on Friday to announce that the federal and provincial governments have signed a memorandum of understanding for a federal…
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