The politics of Sally Albright #nlpoli
A surprisingly large number of people loved Monday’s post about the political impotence of protesting against Muskrat Falls now that the thing is pretty much finished. As if to confirm…
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Eeyore and the Blustery Day #nlpoli
Premier Dwight Ball stood up before a hand-picked crowd at The Rooms on Tuesday and told them they were there to help develop a strategy for the future of our…
The Bigger Picture #nlpoli
Whatever the provincial government is doing about its own spending or the provincial economy generally or whatever it is up to starts at 9:00 AM. They announced an invitation-only event…
Politics as masturbation #nlpoli
“I am warning you. Don’t make me wear my pikachu costume.” Demonstrations at Memorial University and at Nalcor headquarters on Friday show the extent to which Newfoundland politics has become…
Sweat Equity – new ISER book on housing policy #nlpoli
Sweat Equity Cooperative House-Building in Newfoundland, 1920–1974 C.A.Sharpe and A.J Shawyer “The lack of decent urban housing — a problem neither new nor unique to Newfoundland — was widely recognized…
Canada’s Dippers: taking the democracy out of politics #nlpoli
The guy who didn’t know what electoral district he lived in likes proportional representation. Provincial Dipper boss Earle “More Austerity” McCurdy was so excited Wednesday that he talked to a…
The trouble with transparency – CADO version #nlpoli
“How do you deal with a government computer system that is hopelessly out of date it wants you to ‘update’ your Internet browser to a version that is actually three…
The trouble with transparency #nlpoli
Last week, the provincial government’s communications gang tweeted a picture, which we have reprinted on the right. It was supposed to show where Premier Dwight Ball is on his little…
The Strategic Two-Step #nlpoli
There’s a sheet of paper taped on the underside of one of the drawers in the Premier’s desk on the 8th Floor. It’s very old. No one knows for sure…
The Way Forward #nlpoli
Last December, Dwight Ball laid out his plan to deal with the provincial government’s financial problems. Ball made the comments to CBC’s David Cochrane a week or two after he’d…
Jerome! rides again #nlpoli
Retired justice David Riche is the only independent person who has examined any information about Don Dunphy’s death. Hired by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as an outside reviewer of…
The letter Peter Whittle got #nlpoli
This is the letter Peter Whittle got from his colleagues on the school councils federation executive. Whittle resigned today.
Samson sale price "reflective of risk": Galgay #nlpoli
Jonathan Galgay sent along an email to add some information to the post last week about the city’s tax assessment for the property at 50 Beaumont Avenue, also known as…
Through others’ eyes #nlpoli
For Newfoundland’s pseudo-intellectuals, the Toronto Globe and Mail is a kind of one-handed reading material. They use one hand to scroll down the Internet site looking at stuff. They use…
No help, not my department, and missing records #nlpoli
Starting a little over a hundred years ago, the Government of Newfoundland publishing a list of public servants by name, showing their job title, the department they worked for, the…
Illegal deletions okay in NL: access commissioner #nlpoli
Shortly after he took office a month or so ago, newly appointed information commissioner Donovan Molloy told CBC there had been a "substantial increase" in the number of access to…
Reforming the way government works #nlpoli
Conservative and New Democrat goons are fapping themselves into a frenzy on Twitter over Bern Coffey's appointment as Clerk of the Executive Council. Qualifications don't matter, they would have it.…
City assessed school property at sale price #nlpoli
City councillor Jonathan Galgay attacked the school board and the provincial government over the sale of IJ Samson school for $189,000 after the purchaser put the thing on the market…
Not talking but talking about something #nlpoli
It took them a few days but the folks at Nalcor managed to put out a statement that addressed the possible talks with Hydro-Quebec about the Lower Churchill.They didn't post…
Grits and Cons play dodge-fact over Labrador hydro talks #nlpoli
"There are no discussions between this government and the Quebec government."That's part of a statement sent out by email to local reporters from natural resources minister Siobhan Coady's office. You…