un autre pet de cerveau de Jones #nlpoli
Labrador member of parliament Yvonne Jones got so effercited at the prospect of more hydro-electric development with Hydro-Quebec that she wanted to offer arctic and sub-arctic regions outside Labrador as…
Ed Hollett
School Board Elections #nlpoli
Some folks were a bit agitated over the weekend about how hard it is going to be – supposedly – to vote in the school board election.Voter turn-out may be…
Poor Russell’s Almanack #nlpoli
Pity Russell Wangersky. Somebody is telling Russell he is part of the elite and Russell doesn’t like it. Not me, writes Russell, in one of his columns last week. No…
Canadian war grave destroyed by illegal salvagers #nlpoli
A recent survey of the waters around Indonesia by researchers using three-dimensional sonar imaging has confirmed that illegal salvagers have decimated the graves of thousands of Allied sailors who died…
Canadian soldier dies on Jordanian training mission
Major Scott Foote, a logistics officer with 1 Canadian Division in Kingston, Ontario, died on Thursday while on a training mission in Jordan. Foote was found unconscious in a gymnasium…
Political campaigns matter #nlpoli
New information calls for a change in perspective. Turns out that the drop in turnout identified by the initial vote results wasn’t as big a drop from 2012 as initially…
Ego and folly #nlpoli
“When the situation was manageable it was neglected, and now that it is thoroughly out of hand we apply too late the remedies which then might have effected a cure.…
Ball, Coady confirm secret talks with Quebec on Labrador hydro #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Premier Dwight Ball confirmed in the House of Assembly on Wednesday that officials from this province are talking to officials in Quebec about significant development of hydro-electric assets on the…
The Sunshine List Case hits the court #nlpoli
The public sector unions’ attack on freedom of information is finally in front of a judge. The unions want to block disclosure of the names of public servants in response…
General Ignorance: Economic Version #nlpoli
Of all the people in Canada who know something about the Equalization system,. none of them sit in the House of Assembly. Item: Kevin Hutchings, a former cabinet minister, asked…
The Trump Election #nlpoli
All you will ever need in order to understand the recent American presidential election is contained in this little chart. It appeared within about 24 hours of the polls closing…
Leaders and salaries #nlpoli
Donald Trump says he won’t even take one dollar in salary as president. Sounds familiar. In Newfoundland and Labrador, Proto-Trump said the same thing. His fan club insist the Greatest…
His best shot #nlpoli
The most important measurement you need to take of Dwight Ball’s great vision for the provincial government is that this is his one, best shot. That shot consists of a…
Remembrance Day 2016
Captain Nichola Goddard -srbp-
Citizenship and Newfoundland’s decision to join Canada – Raymond Blake #nlpoli
From Ray Blake’s recent post on the Acadiensis blog: Approaching the constitutional politics of Newfoundlandin the 1940s from the perspective of the rhetoric surrounding citizenship provides a multi-dimensional framework that…
Why national history matters – Jerry Bannister #nlpoli
“Nations matter. National cultures matter. And national histories matter,” historian Jerry Bannister writes in his commentary on the American presidential election just finished. “As we try to understand what has…
The real news in one sentence #nlpoli
According to its supporters, we need to have a special office for search and rescue in St. John’s because Newfoundlanders spoke English so poorly that no one could understand us.…
Apparitions #nlpoli
You can go back to September 2006 and find one of the earliest references at SRBP to the impact the aging, shifting population would have on Newfoundland and Labrador. The…
Politics and Theatre
Adam Schiff is a United States congressman representing the 29th district in California. He’s a Democrat. His fictional namesake was the Manhattan district attorney in the original series Law &…
Appearance #nlpoli
What you know of the world outside your immediate physical sensation – what you can touch, taste, feel and so on – is a mental construction. It is a fiction.…