The Mulligan Race begins #nlpoli
By the end of the week, the provincial Conservatives will have the leadership race they deliberately avoided the last time out. That’s the one that ended with the Coleman fiasco.…
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Commemoration Day, 2014 #nlpoli
Tread softly here! Go reverently and slow! You let your soul go down upon its knees And with bowed head, and heart abased strive hard To grasp the future gain…
Paying everyone but ourselves #nlpoli
Nalcor boss Ed Martin told everyone in the province last week that his pet project has increased in price by almost another billion dollars. It’s now more than $8.0 billion,…
Muskrat Falls costs break $8.0 billion #nlpoli
$6.99 billion is the new cost estimate for the Muskrat Falls dam and the link to the island. With that much money and with such a record of inaccurate forecasts, …
The ATIPPA Review Round-Up #nlpoli
Tuesday’s video is available at parcnl.ca. Your humble e-scribbler is Number 2 on June 25. At the front end of the Number 1 video is Vaughn Hammond of the Canadian…
parcnl.ca #nlpoli
If you want your SRBP fix this Wednesday morning check out the Privacy and Access Review Committee hearings at 11:00 AM. They are streaming it live at parcnl.ca. -srbp-
Summer Political Reading List #nlpoli
If you are looking for some political reading over the summer, here are a few books worth checking out. Tragedy in the Commons by Alison Loat and Michael MacMillan. Here’s…
Grassroots #nlpoli
You’ll likely hear a lot of talk from Conservatives over the next few weeks about their “grassroots.” Trevor Taylor, for one mentioned them twice last week when talking about the…
Welcome Back, Cochrane #nlpoli
If you are needing a political fix this weekend you can get two of the better variety online. David Cochrane is back from an extended absence and to celebrate, he’s…
Nothing was further from the truth #nlpoli
A decade ago, the offshore regulatory board reduced its estimate of the recoverable reserves in the Terra Nova field from 405 million barrels to 354 million barrels. Danny Williams was…
Taking nothing out #nlpoli
Sometimes a comment is so profoundly revealing you just can’t let it slide by. This one came from Milly Brown, the Premier’s communications director, in an exchange with Simon Lono…
Wednesday Quickies #nlpoli
As your humble e-scribbler spent time on Tuesday finishing off a presentation to the ATIPPA inquiry next week (11 AM, 25 June), here are a couple of quickies you might…
Understanding election polls #nlpoli
If you want to get a decent discussion of the Ontario election results and the way polling research tracked the campaign, take a look at a piece from The Star…
Criticism #nlpoli
Take a gander at this letter to the editor of Overcast by someone using the name Samuel Wilkes. It’s about a problem in the arts community with criticism. We’re shit…
Sometimes a cigar … #nlpoli
“Fundamentally, the process works,” former Conservative cabinet minister Shawn Skinner said on CBC’s On Point last weekend. “It’s been proven in the past. The party would have been better served…
Pollyanna Peek-a-Boo And Economic Unboom #nlpoli
Premier Peek-a-Boo took time out of his long, slow wander to the Premier’s Office this week to do an interview with the Grand Falls-Windsor Advertiser. Check it out. Frank Coleman…
“Out-sourcing” social programs and policy #nlpoli
The incredible story from Ireland about the remains of 800 babies and children found in a discarded septic tank caused your humble e-scribbler to think a bit about local history.…
Air Canada to London: back again #nlpoli
How times change. Last week, industry minister Susan Sullivan attended an announcement by Air Canada that they would be bringing back year-round direct flights between St. John’s and London. Starting…
A farewell to Tom Marshall #nlpoli
Tom Marshall spent his last few hours ever as a member of the House of Assembly on Thursday, as the spring session drew to a close. Tom’s already handed in…