Like clockwork, about two weeks after Danny Williams last got his mug on the news, the most thin-skinned media hound on the planet got himself a ton more ego-stroking attention. Every two weeks or so. Like clockwork. If you don’t believe it, just do some google searching. (Read more…)
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Spectators and the “Me” Generation #nlpoli
The official media advisory describes the event at Confederation Building this morning as an opportunity for Premier Tom Marshall to thank public servants “for the support provided by their work over his time as Minister and Premier.” In reality, this is another one of the grandiose celebrations that have become
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Trash, Give-aways, and Conservative Policy #nlpoli
Friday is trash day in the world of political communications. It’s the day when you slip out stuff that is unpleasant in the hopes people will miss it. If you can slide in another story, like say the completely unnecessary appointment of a finance minister who will have the job
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: And then things went horribly wronger… #nlpoli
John Crosbie, the elder statesmen of Conservatives in the province took a shot at Danny Williams for his continued interference in the internal affairs of the provincial Conservatives. Danny blew a gasket and willingly gave interviews to every media outlet in town, thereby guaranteeing that the story that can only
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: John, Danny, and voter apathy #nlpoli
Every now and again, someone will talk about voter apathy. Last week, Steve Kent was circulating the link to an article that claimed that youth engagement – getting young people more involved in the community and in politics – was a way of getting more people to vote at election
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Premier Peek-a-boo #nlpoli
Pretty well every Conservative who is anyone in the province turned up on Wednesday night at Danny Breen’s by-election headquarters. Every Conservative, that is, except the fellow who is the heir-apparent to the leadership. Frank Coleman wasn’t anywhere to be seen according to reporters at the headquarters after the polls
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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
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Kremlinology 44: Optics #nlpoli
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: The Insiders #nlpoli
The story of the 2014 provincial Conservative Party leadership contest is a study in politics on its most basic level. It is a story of those with influence and of those who have less of it or none at all. It is a story of how politics actually works inside
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Old Fraudsters #nlpoli
There’s no greater fraud, former Premier Danny Williams once said, than a promise not kept. In the House of Assembly on Monday, his successor claimed that Conservatives “do as we say.” Premier Kathy Dunderdale was making a dig at opposition leader Dwight Ball over his leadership campaign expenses. That’s a
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Nottawa Repost: Legislative oversight in an era of "patriotic correctness" #nlpoli
The following originally appeared at nottawa on September 2, 2009 as a comment on the emergency session of the legislature to deal with changes to legislation about the Churchill River. It includes a mention of an earlier political controversy, the December 2008 expropriation bill. The two are linked and in
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Selling Nalcor #nlpoli
New Democratic party leader Lorraine Michael raised a touchy question in the House of Assembly on Thursday. It was about selling Nalcor. Only problem for Lorraine was that she got it buggered up.
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: When engineering becomes imagineering #nlpoli
Nalcor issued a news release on Monday to correct inaccurate statements about the water management agreement between Nalcor and Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation. Sounds good, except that Nalcor didn’t identify who made the statements. Nalcor didn’t indicate hat the statements were. Nor did the company indicate how the statements were
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Gary Doer, Bernard Lord, and Dalton McGuinty With Dalton McGuinty’s abrupt resignation, Stephen Harper has now outlasted every sitting Premier in power when he took office. Hell, Alberta has seen two regicides during this period: John Hamm (succeeded by Rodney MacDonald in 2006, who was defeated by Darrel Dexter in
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: How much was that principle in the window? #nlpoli
Sending the third topsides module from Hebron outside the province was “absolutely unacceptable” to Premier Kathy Dunderdale back in June. She was “extremely unhappy” and vowed to “pursue all avenues available” to her in order “to ensure that this very important work stays in Newfoundland and Labrador.” A few months
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Williams prepared to wrap arms around Quebec #nlpoli
There’s something just too funny for words about former Premier Danny Williams sometimes. It’s the kind of “too funny” where you don’t know whether he gets the joke and is just having a laugh at his own expense or is so completely blind to how asinine his own words make
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Williams sides with Quebec on energy #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Danny Williams always likes someone who stands up for his or her province. Well, likes them as long as the someone doing the standing up standing in the way of something Danny wants. . Anyone who wondered why Williams turned up in the Globe praising British Columbia Premier Christy Clark
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For the record, your humble e-scribbler will refrain from making any comment on the substance of the statements of claim filed by Danny Williams and Alderon against the Sierra Club and Bruno Marcocchio on the one hand and Brad Cabana on the other. CBC has posted pdf versions of both,
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Autonomy and Legitimate Aspirations #nlpoli
Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter is ringing the bells, trying to alarm Canadians to the fact the federal government is trying to withdraw funding from areas that are generally provincial responsibility under the Constitution. You can see a lengthy interview Dexter gave to Evan Solomon of CBC’s Power and Politics
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Looking beyond the Hebron sandbox #nlpoli
ExxonMobil drew a line in the sand this morning, and the minister and I are here to draw another line in the sand, as far as this project is concerned. Premier Kathy Dunderdale, 21 June 2012 Premier Kathy Dunderdale and natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy spent more than a half
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