In the United States, a late-night television program created a regular feature that has celebrities read the comments made about them on Twitter. The comments are – to borrow the words of Constable Joe Smyth – “rude, inappropriate, [and] hateful”. He was speaking about comments aimed at politicians but his
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Actions and words #nlpoli
The provincial cabinet has known since January – at least – that the powerhouse at Muskrat Falls is only 15% completed despite a huge payout to the contractor.That’s what Nalcor reported to the committee of provincial bureaucrats named by the Conservat…
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That didn’t take long.The fundamental strategic political problem Dwight Ball and his senior advisors has been busily building since last year exploded on Wednesday with the leak of a treasury board directive to departments, agencies, boards, and Cro…
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Finance minister Cathy Bennett told CBC that “everything is on the table and we have to make sure that we don’t leave anything that potentially could help us move to the destination that we all want to get to…So, my answer would be everything is on t…
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Dwight Ball is the latest Liberal to emerge from the candidate protection program. He popped up on NTV on Monday evening to tell us all two things: First, he thinks there should be an inquiry into the Dunphy shooting. He made up some nonsense about the need for an imaginary
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Cast your mind back a couple of years and you will probably remember finance minister Jerome Kennedy told us a couple of things. One was that he expected the government would run deficits for three years, totalling about $1.6 billion. The other was that surplus would follow after that. Well,
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