The federal government offered the provincial governments its share of about $19 billion in COVID aid delivered to provinces in July. There was another chunk earmarked for municipal transit systems. Buses. CBC reported at the time that “Newfoundland and Labrador did not apply for that [transit] money”. Apparently, “… the
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Clowncil should try honesty, not more secrecy #nlpoli
The problem at St. John’s city council isn’t the recent budget.Council is a nest of ego and ambition. Not so very long ago, council members fought among themselves privately and publicly. Some of it wasn’t very pretty. Som…
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The provincial Conservatives lost a crucial by-election in Virginia Waters on Wednesday, but not for lack of effort. The could not possible have pulled out any more stops to try and win the seat in the last two weeks of the campaign. Even on polling day the Conservatives mounted a
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Danny Williams appeared in Virginia Waters on Saturday to campaign for Danny Breen, the Conservative candidate in the by-election. Breen’s campaign wasted no time in pushing out pictures of The Appearance, like the one above, another one showing him with some young fellows out posting Breen campaign signs in the
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Talking about Change… #nlpoli
As you recover from what is hopefully the last big storm of the 2014 winter season, cast yourself in the role of Conservative party strategist for a second and think of what you might do. Just to help you get your head in the right place, let’s go over the
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