Historian Ray Blake’s new book Lions or jellyfish: Newfoundland – Ottawa relations since 1957 is likely to be be on many reading lists. It should be. Blake examines: the Term 29 dispute, hydro-electric development in Labrador between 1960 and 1970, resettlement, offshore oil and gas ownership, Meech Lake, the ‘Williams’
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Offshore Ownership Fight Examined #nlpoli
Last year was the 30th anniversary of one of the most significant events not only in the history of Newfoundland and Labrador but of Canada as a whole. The agreement between the federal and provincial governments known as the Atlantic Accord resolved a dispute over the control of oil and
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