Remember the December deal and all the claims that the provincial Tories would all be standing for re-election, bar none? Yeah, well you could take that one to the bank. Not. As your humble e-scribbler told you a while ago there are a few Conservativ…
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Spend ‘em if ya got ‘em: the Alberta version
In light of the suggestion the provincial government needs a blue ribbon panel of experts to decide how to safeguard the provincial economic future, take a look at what is going on in Alberta. Conservative premier Ed Stelmach appointed just such a pan…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Building the fishery of the future
To look at the fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador is to see as clear an example as one may find of the fundamental bankruptcy of the sort of old-fashioned politics that has existed from the earliest of times and that persists right down to modern day…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Titanic records available from the UK National Archives
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Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Belize wants to buy out Fortis interest in Belize power company
From Fortis: “The Government of Belize (the “Government”) issued a media release on Friday, June 10, 2011 announcing the Government’s interest, “…in purchasing majority shares in BEL so as to assume control of the company.” No purchase proposal ha…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: 15 ideas (and more) – Setting the Table
Our economic vision for Newfoundland and Labrador is that of an enterprising, educated, distinctive and prosperous people working together to create a competitive economy based on innovation, creativity, productivity and quality. Strategic Econom…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Nalcor negotiating Muskrat transmission with Hydro-Quebec
Nalcor is currently trying to strike a deal with Hydro-Quebec on wheeling power through the province to other markets Read all about it in the Toronto Star. Newfoundland and Quebec are now trying to negotiate a deal in which Nalcor could get a rig…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Offshore board recommends mediator or panel review for Old Harry drilling proposal
The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board issued the following news release on Monday: “The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board
(C-NLOPB), in its role as Responsible Authority pursuant to the Canadian E…
The Sir Robert Bond Papers: 15 ideas (and more) for a stronger Newfoundland and Labrador – Introduction
In her first speech to the House of Assembly as Premier – which she and her staff erroneously and arrogantly like to call her inaugural speech – Kathy Dunderdale claimed that, since 2003, she and her party had “demonstrated an unwavering commitme…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Muskrat Falls timelines “unlikely to be achieved”: external review
An external expert review of the Muskrat Falls project warned Nalcor and the provincial government that the project’s schedule is unrealistic, according to documents obtained by Canadian Press. As Canadian Press reported on Sunday: Provincial Cr…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Separated at birth: Rosebud edition
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Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Traffic that doesn’t slam into houses
Here’s what Bond Papers readers found most interesting for the week June 6 to 10, 2011: Dunderdale disapproval doubles; Tory vote drop to 44% Unite the Left Will bad Tory polls change candidate slates? Nightmare on Muskrat Falls Harri…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Chumba-dumba
Leave to the ever charming labradore to remind everyone that the financial mess Danny Williams left behind is actually something he made clear he would do in 2008. The quote is one your humble e-scribbler completely forgot about but reading now three …
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Political impotence and the little blue pills
Fish minister Clyde “The Finger” Jackman is going to fight to save a local coast guard co-ordination centre and its dozen jobs. Well, that’s what the torqued CBC headline says. The provincial government he’s a part of has created a financi…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Harris Centre economic forum: the media coverage
The Telegram’s James Macleod had a decent front page summary of the Harris Centre’s discussion of economic issues facing the province and the subsequent discussion. The CBC has a super short version that is already bumped off the front page of its…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: From battalions to no cuts: how Connie promises have changed
Once upon a time, the federal Conservatives promised the good people of Happy Valley-Goose bay that their airport would once again be the scene of major military activity. Battalions of infantry soldiers and fleets of unmanned flying contraptions.,…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Will bad Tory polls change candidate slates?
Public opinion polls showing dramatic declines in provincial Conservative support might bring some changes in the slate of candidates. The provincial Conservatives, for example, included a pledge to run again for all incumbents in the December deal th…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The looming debt problem
The government’s favourite economist is sounding alarm bells about the provincial government’s financial health. The finance minister, on a local talk radio program, sounding stressed as more and more people start talking about what has been obvi…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Locke warns of financial problems
Wade Locke’s been making the rounds of local media in advance of his talk tonight at the Harris Centre of Memorial University. Your humble e-scribbler posted the details of it on Monday. Some quick observations on this Telegram version: There …
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The perils of polling stories
Not surprisingly, local media reports of Corporate Research Associates’ most recent quarterly poll got the news spectacularly wrong. For example, the Telegram reported that “[s]upport for the provincial Conservatives has dropped to 57 per cent of …
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