Municipalities Newfoundland and Labrador, the umbrella organization that speaks for the province’s towns and cities, doesn’t like the plan to slash the number of representatives the people of the province…
The usual round of Saturday chores this weekend brought with it the usual accidental meetings with all manner of friends and acquaintances. Even the least political among them wondered what…
The latest Fraser Institute assessment of the financial management prowess of premiers is to sound economic analysis what homeopathy to curing cancer. The Fraser Institute issued a news release on…
If Paul Davis and his beleaguered band of provincial Conservatives started the week on a high, it didn’t last very long. They opened the House on Monday to debate a…
Before Christmas, Liberal leader Dwight Ball had been calling for an election as soon as possible. After Christmas, faced with the chance to chop a few seats from the House…
It’s not surprising that the provincial Conservatives and their supporters want to reduce the representations the people of the province have in the House of Assembly. After all, the plan…
The idea of reducing the size of the province’s legislature because the provincial government has a massive financial crisis didn’t get any smarter when the provincial government announced its plan…
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Any of the small, local printing companies who usually make a fair bit of cash from political campaigns can keep their printing presses chilled during the upcoming NDP leadership campaign.…
Gerry Rogers is smiling again now that Earle McCurdy has agreed to be the NDP Kevin Aylward. If Earle had decided to stay retired, Gerry was the substitute leader the…
Whenever the provincial government gets into financial trouble, someone will suggest that one great way to save money would be to cut the number of members in the House of…
Maybe it was the headline on John Ivison’s opinion piece in the National Post that threw them off. Spat over $400M N.L. fund could make federal government look bad to…
The C.D. Howe Institute released a policy brief on Thursday that argues that demographic changes will hit the people of Newfoundland and Labrador very hard in the years ahead. This…
Say what you want about Lorraine Michael, but you have to admit that she knows what she wants to do. Lorraine has spent her adult life as an advocate. That’s…
Her voice tinged with emotion, Lorraine Michael announced to a gaggle of reporters and her supporters at Confederation Building on Tuesday that she would step down as party leader as…
Konrad Yakabuski’ s column in the Monday Globe is an interesting one for people in Newfoundland and Labrador for a couple of reasons. ‘ First of all, Yakabuski pointed out…
When the going gets tough, the tough go fishing. In this case, a bunch of politicians in a tough spot with voters are fishing among a small bunch of politicians…
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the first Sir Robert Bond Papers post. In July 2004, I wrote and released a paper that tried to “examine offshore oil revenues and…
For its last editorial of 2014, the Telegram decided to discuss the fate of the province’s New Democrats. A quick summary: things were good for the Dippers. Now things are…
Hebron is the last of the four, big, offshore discoveries from the 1980s. It’s due to come into production in 2017 based on a development agreement reached initially in 2007…
