No Market Research Required #nlpoli
In the House of Commons, members can put questions to cabinet ministers several ways. One of them is called Questions on the Order Paper. Ask a sensible question. Get a…
Ed Hollett
No Market Research Required #nlpoli
In the House of Commons, members can put questions to cabinet ministers several ways. One of them is called Questions on the Order Paper. Ask a sensible question. Get a…
Populism: the lesson from Venezuela #nlpoli
Born and raised in Venezuela, Andreas Miguel Rondon is an economist who now lives in Madrid. He wrote for The Washington Post last week on the lesson Americans should learn…
What is it about Quebec and mass killings? #nlpoli
Compared to the United States, there haven’t been a lot of mass killings in Canada. Period. Full stop. Canadais predominantly white and Christian and researchers tell us that across the…
Local news media in the post-factual world #nlpoli
Chris O’Neill-Yates is a veteran CBC journalist. Like most people in her line of work, Chris is on Twitter plugging both her own work and commenting on events in the…
Duff in the hole encore #nlpoli
Oh dear. The CBC has gone off to the mainland to get Duff Conacher to make a comment about the need for political finance reform in Newfoundland and Labrador. Three…
Mean Tweets #nlpoli
In the United States, a late-night television program created a regular feature that has celebrities read the comments made about them on Twitter. The comments are – to borrow the…
Feehan, electricity prices, and the bigger problem. #nlpoli
Jim Feehan’s proposal to change the way we price electricity in the province got some media attention -over the past 24 hours. Feehan believes that we should set the base…
Faroese fishermen skirting Canadian port ban via St. Pierre #nlpoli
Fishing boats from the Faroe Islands are getting around a ban on shipping through Canadian ports by unloading their catch in St. Pierre first. franceinfo reported on January 20 that…
Kevin, Donald, and Danny #nlpoli
A Forum poll released on Monday showed 27% of those surveyed thought celebrity businessman Kevin O’Leary would make the best leader of the federal Conservative party with Maxime Bernier a…
Ratings trump truth: Justified edition #nlpoli
Someone in Gander Bay has been catching and selling quantities of smelt. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans received complaints, conducted in investigation, and laid charges against an adult who…
Sovereignty #nlpoli
Newfoundland and Labrador is one of the very few countries on the planet that got itself into such a financial mess that it gave up self-government. The people gave up…
Another premier… same health care facility #nlpoli
A gaggle of provincial politicians representing districts along the west coast of Newfoundland turned up in Corner Brook on Friday for another one of the set-piece media events that government’s…
Ratings trump truth #nlpoli
Sometimes the universe delivers you the magical set of circumstances you just can’t ignore. Danny Williams turned up at the St. John’s Board of Trade luncheon on Thursday to deliver…
New French anti-terror measure impacts Newfoundland #nlpoli
A group of 35 young people traveling from St. Pierre to Corner Brook at the end of the month are going to be affected by a new French anti-crime and…
Actions and Words (2016) #nlpoli
The provincial cabinet has known since January – at least – that the powerhouse at Muskrat Falls is only 15% completed despite a huge payout to the contractor.That’s what Nalcor…
A bail out, a bail out … #nlpoli
Conversation about the province’s financial state in the past couple of weeks have turned to talk of bailouts and threats to the province’s sovereignty. A Carlton University economist told CBC…
The Narrative War (2015) #nlpoli
The day after a massive Liberal victory in the general election, CBC’s David Cochrane posted an analysis piece on the new administration. CBC distributed it nationally. Cochrane described Dwight Ball…
The last man on the moon
Gene Cernan died on Monday. He was many things in his life but Cernan will be best known as the last man who set foot on the moon during the…
Cognitive Dissonance (2014) #nlpoli
People like things in life to fit together. When things don’t fit together, people get upset. They get fidgety. They try to make things fit together. It’s an idea regular…