Updated with hyperlinks

A previous version of this post is the most Googled thing I’ve ever written, so I’ll keep re-posting it with updates as the busy electoral season approaches. It’s a calendar of upcoming dates and deadlines for political junkies/candidates/hacks across …

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Slap Upside The Head: Des Nouvelles De L’Avenir

Good day to you, gentlemen, gentleladies and other various gentlepeople. It is I, Professor Flamingo Jones of the University of Oxbridgeshire, writing to you once again. For the next week or so, Mark, the author of Slap Upside the Head, has graciously agreed to accompany me on a research expedition to France. Our primary goal […]

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Veracity from Vermont

You can follow this link to CBC Radio’s Radio Noon interview with Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin, talking about the proposed Lower Churchill hydro development at Muskrat Falls, and discussion around the project at a recent meeting of New England Govern…

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Thibodeau v Air Canada

The Federal Court decision in Thibodeau v Air Canada is here. But you can get a sense of the outcome via just about any major national media outlet this afternoon.As Canadian Press reported:”Air Canada must pay $12,000 and apologize to an Ottawa coupl…

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Disconnected from Connecticut

Tuesday’s papers will undoubtedly be picking up on this CP story in which the topic of discussion flowing from the New England Governors and Eastern Premiers was the delay in exporting long promised Canadian hydroelectric power to the Eastern seaboard …

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New Dawn II

Is nobody curious about this?From a column in today’s Telegram by Michael Johansen (emphasis added):The details of the New Dawn pact were finally released and, although they confused many voters before the referendum, leading to a situation described a…

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Slap Upside The Head: Ontario Catholic Schools To Get GSAs

Great news! Thanks to pressure from students, the Ontario government has announced that all schools receiving public funding, including Catholic schools, must allow GLBT support groups starting this September. “The choice to have an LGBTQ group will be the choice of students, not the choice of principals and school boards,” MPP Glen Murray announced to […]

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The good district man

One of my longstanding pet peeves as an on-again off-again political hack and observer of Newfoundland politics is the proliferation of the term “a good district man” in reference to our elected officials, particularly MHAs. (Leaving aside the fact tha…

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New Dawn

Excerpted below is the portion of the Elections Act 1991, SNL 1992, c E-3.1 which essentially makes relevant portions of that Act applicable to public consultation of electors by way of plebiscite:217. (1) Where it appears to the Lieutenant-Governor in…

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Meanwhile, elsewhere…

June was a bleak month on the world democracy stage. Saudi Arabia cracked down on women protesting for the right to drive, while relatively more progressive* Libya showered its female citizens with machine guns and shooting lessons. Syria remains an o…

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Happy Canada Day!

Not only does Canada Day start in Newfoundland ahead of everywhere else, but in at least one other statistically-proven department, it appears the rest of the country has some catching up to do…(Graphic from today’s Globe and Mail Report on Business)

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Predictability

A quote from Maclean’s, about six weeks ago:”Jack Layton’s biggest management problem when the House of Commons reconvenes may well be the newly elected MP from St. John’s South-Mount Pearl.”Ya don’t say…

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