Pick up a sharpened pencil. Now take a clean, white sheet of paper from the computer printer. Close your eyes and make a small round mark on the paper with the pencil. Look at the black dot. You can’t real tell much about it, can you? Unles…
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: You might know it as bribery, Ma’am
The eagle eyed nottawa picked up on something in a column by Michael Johansen at the Telegram. It’s a reference to a cash payment due to the Innu of Labrador as part of the land claims deal they approved in a recent referendum. Johansen refers to it…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Wally Young’s in trouble
You can tell the Tories are worried about their support in St. Barbe because they’ve scheduled not one, not two, but three announcements in the district starring health minister Jerome Kennedy on a day the provincial government is usually on holiday….
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Dexter admits NS didn’t do Muskrat Falls homework
In an interview with The Coast, Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter admits his government didn’t exercise due diligence before signing onto the Muskrat Falls project: The Coast: Has the Nova Scotia government commissioned any cost comparison betwe…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Strangling energy innovation
The Telegram editorialists are finally putting it all together, at least when it comes to the provincial government’s energy company, the Muskrat Falls project and taxpayers: It looks a lot like the province would prefer all its eggs in one baske…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Traffic for people lined up at the Basilica
This was an amazing week in Newfoundland and Labrador politics. Summer arrived with a vengeance, traffic at the humble e-scribbles is back up and the theme this week seems to be cock-ups. Natural resources minister Shawn Skinner starred in a c…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Sucker bet: windy moose version
The guy who did such a bang-up job of looking after the Hurricane Igor disaster is now the guy leading the fight against moose-vehicle collisions. Anyone care to wager on the prospects for success on that one? – srbp –
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Makes it official, then
Noob Bloc NDP member of parliament Ryan Cleary is apparently getting some criticism. Here’s the way Voice of the Cabinet Minister reported Cleary’s comments on one of the radio station’s call-in shows: New Democrat MP Ryan Cleary is defendin…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Okay, so it wasn’t a bus after all
But that doesn’t mean natural resources minister Shawn Skinner escaped completely unscathed from his episode on Backtalk on Wednesday. Here’s the latest version of a story about comments Skinner made on VO’s afternoon call-in show. The hea…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Skinner throws AG under bus
Natural resources minister Shawn Skinner threw outgoing Attorney General John Noseworthy under the bus on Wednesday as he contradicted the AG’s claim he can’t get access to some of the offshore regulatory board’s records. Voice of the Cabinet Mi…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: And there goes another one
Jim Baker, incumbent Conservative in Labrador west announced today he won’t be seeking re-election in the fall. Baker claims he made the decision in 2007. Odds are you’d have a very, very hard time finding anyone who voted for Baker or the P…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: And this just in from K-L-A-N News…
The headline: “Financing Announcement for Foreigners to NL This Afternoon” The little script story had less objectionable language in it that was much closer to what the official media advisory said. Even immigrants would have had a much fri…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Republic of Moose
In an announcement that had absolutely no ties whatsoever to the current election campaign, the provincial government today tossed $5.0 million into a variety of efforts that are supposed to reduce the number moose-vehicle accidents in Newfoundland and…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Loan guarantee for Muskrat Falls “electioneering” says NDP MP from Quebec
Noob Bloc NDP member of parliament Raymond Cote made it clear on Tuesday he disagrees with his party on a loan guarantee for the Muskrat Falls project.According to Canada.com: “It’s a gaffe to have dealt with that sporadically,” the MP for Beauport-Lim…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Skinner makes false statement in letter to Telegram editor
Natural resources minister Shawn Skinner is writing more letters to the editor of the Telegram these days that the former Open Line hydro queen sends tweets. The government must have polling showing that the Muskrat Falls project isn’t going over we…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Definitely cabinet material
A man arrested for allegedly assaulting police officers with an electric drill says he plans to seek the Provincial Conservative nomination in Port de Grave district during this fall’s provincial election. Here’s a chunk of the story from Voice Of…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: You say potato, I say road apple
Kathy Dunderdale thinks it’s all much ado about nothing. Dunderdale commented in response to a Telegram editorial that noted a set of reports prepared for Nalcor on the Muskrat Falls mega-debt project were not as Dunderdale as previously described t…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Trade talks with Europeans = “doing a back-room deal with a group of serial rapists”
What your humble e-scribbler said: this guy could be an accident waiting to happen. Wait no longer. After musing about breaking his major campaign promise to the people of his riding, noob Bloc NDP member of parliament Ryan Cleary decided to in…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: AG finishes term with more fumbles
Outgoing auditor general John Noseworthy held to his pattern of making less-than-accurate claims or claims without evidence, this time with respect to the offshore regulatory board. Noseworthy’s claims and the accurate information from the board are…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: That Was The Canada Week That Was
Political mythology was the top of the reading list here at Bond Papers in the days leading up to Canada Day. The top post noted that a national Conservative insider complaining about political myths was a bit like Aesop bitching about fables. The se…
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