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The Politics of Menses #nlpoli
Until now, we had no idea how our governments valued menstruation. Some of you might be surprised to think this was a question but now we have an answer. Both…
A lot can change in three months #nlpoli
The Liberals and the Conservatives dropped in the most recent Corporate Research Associates poll and all that vote went to the New Democrats. Let’s look at the party choice numbers…
Small ball, election dates, and other minutae #nlpoli
Later today, Premier Paul Davis will introduce a bill in the House of Assembly that, among other things, sets the next provincial general election for the last week of November.…
Q2 2015 Poll Speculation #nlpoli
Corporate Research Associates boss Don Mills has done a good job of teasing the results of his latest poll, due Monday. “Significant” change in voter intentions, Mills tweeted on Friday…
Politicians and other damn fools #nlpoli
On Wednesday, politicians in Newfoundland and Labrador condemned the federal minister of fisheries for making a decision about the fishery in a province based on politics instead of economics or…
The Persistence of False Information: free electricity version #nlpoli
An exchange on Twitter reminded your humble e-scribbler on Wednesday evening of the power of false information to persist despite either being disproven or, in this case, being an obvious…
Duff in the Hole #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Dwight Ball’s announcement last week about Liberal Party funding was a good example of how relatively simple mistakes can turn a good-news announcement into a major public relations problem. Another…
Politics, CETA, and the fishery #nlpoli
The European trade deal came up in the House of Assembly on Monday. Everyone kept to the same lines they’ve been kicking around for months. Believe it if you want,…
For want of a nail… #nlpoli
Dwight Ball demonstrated last week how very simple things can turn into problems very quickly. He handed his political opponents a stick they can use to beat him with. The…
Parting Gifts #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Peter MacKay may have quit federal politics but that didn’t stop him from porking up the federally-appointed courts before he left. On Friday, MacKay appointed former provincial Conservative Party president…
More delays in taking out the trash #nlpoli
On Monday, municipal affairs minister Keith Hutchings announced that the provincial government was setting back the clock on the provincial waste management strategy. Well, they sort of announced it. You…
Yesterday #nlpoli
The news should have been good. Party leader Dwight Ball announced on Wednesday that the Liberals had rid themselves of the debt the party has carried around since the 2003…
Conservatives abandon ridiculous position on European trade… again #nlpoli
In January, trade minister Darin King wrote a letter to his federal counterpart about the European trade deal.King said the provincial government would: withdraw from any trade talks OTHER than…
The party is over #nlpoli
There are times when you wonder why anyone pays attention to a crowd like the Atlantic Province Economic Council. They showed up in St. John’s on Monday to tell us…
Everything will be fine. Or not. #nlpoli
This pretty picture shows a very ugly problem. Look at the point (2008) where the red and blue lines separate. The area in between represents the annual deficit the provincial…
A week of truth for the Conservatives #nlpoli
Not that we didn’t know the provincial government had already granted exemptions to its supposedly sacred minimum fish processing requirements, but CBC this week gave us an insight into just…
TBT: a cabinet divided #nlpoli
The latest case of the Premier and one of his ministers saying different things can’t be put down to brain farts. You also cannot dismiss this because fisheries minister Vaughan…
Oil Royalty and Oil Price Forecasts (2015) #nlpoli
Don Mills says people in Newfoundland and Labrador have a false impression of the state of the provincial economy. Wade Locke says Mills is full of it. To bolster his…
Brain Farts #nlpoli
Some people have a hard time with the idea that a great many political decisions are not the product of deep thinking, extensive research, and agonizing debate. They come from…