Old Twitchy versus the Telegram #nlpoli
Like clockwork, about two weeks after Danny Williams last got his mug on the news, the most thin-skinned media hound on the planet got himself a ton more ego-stroking attention.…
Ed Hollett
Births and Infant Deaths #nlpoli
A recent article in The Atlantic looked at the infant mortality rate in the United States and why it appears so high in comparison to the rest of the world.…
Questions and Answers #nlpoli
Unelected cabinet minister Judy Manning was “surprised” that her personal relationship with Paul Davis’ political bagman came up in a recent CBC interview. Surprised? That’s an interesting choice of words.…
CHC Helicopters’ shitty public relations #nlpoli
“CHC Helicopters Canada is establishing a presence in St. John’s.” There is something about that comment from a spokesman for a company that, not so very long ago, had its…
The Vision Thing #nlpoli
The St. John’s Board of Trade is about the only business advocacy group in the world that doesn’t actually believe in free enterprise. The Board doesn’t believe that government should…
Pension Judy #nlpoli
Judy Manning will go down in history as the only unelected cabinet minister in Newfoundland and Labrador since the country gained responsible local government in 1855 who went into office…
IMPS SJ Hobby Show – November 9
The local chapter of the International Plastic Modellers Society will be having its annual model show and competition on November 9 at the Arts and Culture Centre in St. John’s.…
It’s what your boobs are for #nlpoli
The first week of October is World Breastfeeding Week. Check out babyfriendlynl.ca and you can find information on some of the activities going on across the province. Breastfeeding is the…
Madness #nlpoli
The day after she took the oath of office, Judy Manning, the province’s new attorney general and minister of public safety, and Premier Paul Davis, her boss, are facing intense…
The Usual Suspects #nlpoli
The Conservatives who said Premier Paul Davis was going to doing nothing more than shuffle the cabinet that was already there got it absolutely right. On Tuesday, Davis announced his…
Errors in judgement #nlpoli
March 13, 2014 was a Thursday. Normal cabinet day. According to Auditor General Terry Paddon’s report on the Humber Valley Paving contract, Nick McGrath, then minister of works and transportation…
All our yesterdays #nlpoli
Someone in Paul Davis’ campaign has a quirky sense of humour. They picked Bill Clinton’s 1992 election theme music for Davis to use as his walk-in music during the convention. …
Premier Davis and the Dead Children #nlpoli
Paul Davis will get a lift down to Government House this afternoon and swear the oath of office so Tom Marshall can finally get out of politics. It’s been about…
No Privacy Protection in Marshall’s Office #nlpoli
Someone sent a request to the Premier’s Office for access to all “Email , memos, letters, notes between Elizabeth Matthews and the premier’s office between June 1, 2013 and June…
Cabinet documents and deliberations #nlpoli
One of the big changes Bill 29 made to the province’s access to information law was to give a list of documents that could not be released under the Access…
Needed: a local think-tank #nlpoli
Anyone who was paying attention to these things has known for about 25 years that the province would face a demographic crunch starting ‘round about now. Anyone who has been…
Trouble getting SRBP? #nlpoli
Some people have been reporting problems getting SRBP through their Internet service provider or IT support team. It isn’t clear what’s going on, but one of the problems seems to…
Edges #nlpoli
The Premier’s Office issued a couple of news releases last week about what someone they called the Premier-Designate would be doing. The first release was a curiosity. The second one…
Political Definitions #nlpoli
Political conservatives like to talk about how government ought to be run like a business. They talk about it so much that it’s odd, then, that they never actually do…
No-brainer #nlpoli
Perhaps it is just Danny Williams’ ingratitude that pisses people off. The multi-millionaire hockey team owner just got a massive subsidy from the taxpayers of St. John’s so that he…