After Bill Barry – the only declared candidate - former cabinet minister Shawn Skinner is the least imaginary of the potential candidates for the leadership of the Conservative Party in Newfoundland and Labrador. “What I’m running for is to form the next government,” Skinner told the Telegram’s James McLeod. What
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Cross another one off the imaginary list #nlpoli
A day after the shocking news that Tim Powers is not going to be a candidate for Conservative Party leader in Newfoundland and Labrador, another imaginary candidate dropped out of a race he was never in. Charlie Oliver announced on Wednesday he would back Bill Barry, most likely. And instead
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Competition #nlpoli
When they got up on Wednesday morning, everyone in the province who was paying attention knew that Bill Barry was going to launch his bid for the provincial Conservative Party leadership later that afternoon in Corner Brook. Barry made his plans clear the week before. He’s the only one definitely
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Hobby Garden of Meh, Whatever #nlpoli
What’s so striking about the race to replace Kathy Dunderdale as leader of the provincial Conservative Party is how spectacularly unspectacular it is so far. Maybe things will change once the Conservative Party executive meets to figure out the leadership contest rules. But so far the whole thing has been
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Jim Bennett Effect #nlpoli
Having tried to slide by without renewing their party, the provincial Conservatives are now talking up the joys of change. They’ve talked about everything else. Change is the only thing they haven’t talked about. So now it’s their new talking point. Problem is that they don’t seem to be doing
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Forget the rinse. Just repeat. #nlpoli
The same people saying and doing the same things as they have always done won’t change anything A provincial Conservative started out the week explaining why he cut a deal with a couple of provincial Liberals so he could get re-elected. As part of his speech on Monday, Paul Lane
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: So when’s the next election? #nlpoli
Since Kathy quit and Tom Marshall taking over on Friday morning, people are wondering when we will go to the polls. There’s talk about a snap election. There’s talk about the clock starts ticking on Friday so the election has to be done within the next 12 months. To help
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