Spending the future (2005) #nlpoli
” That’s very dramatic…Some people are going to stand back and say ‘Oh yeah, that’s just because your very lucky. That’s because the oil prices have gone up.’ Well, no.…
Ed Hollett
Newfoundland and Nutrition in the 1940s #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Scholarly papers seldom get the attention of the news media. When a paper combines a well-known, emotionally charged issue – aboriginal residential schools – with intimations of racism and unethical…
On Meaning #nlpoli
Brexit supporter and insurance magnate Arron Banks got into a tussle on Twitter late last year with Cambridge classicist Mary Beard. Banks tweeted that Rome had been done in by…
Praying for a miracle #nlpoli
People are talking about austerity but the simple truth is the people talking that way have a vested interest in exaggerating what is going on in the provincial government. Yes,…
2016 in books #nlpoli
1. Brand Command by Alex Marland. The book that political marketing and communications academics will be quoting for a while to come. 2. Observing the outports by Jeff Webb. An…
Top 10 Posts of 2016 #nlpoli
These are the posts you read the most of all. 01. Balls digs himself deeper into hole – May 2016 and yet another twist in the tale of Ed Martin’s…
Reality Check: gas tax and debt/deficit #nlpoli
Comment on Twitter: “If my household spends too much and goes into debt I don’t expect others too pay for my mistakes, yet govn makes us pay for theirs.” Reality…
Fact-checking CBC and Food Banks #nlpoli
The headline on the CBC story just felt wrong. The kind of over-the-top exaggeration that just sounds biased. Distorted. Wrong. “Food bank need jumps in N.L., ending years-long trend.” The…
The Tibb’s Eve Accord #nlpoli
Health minister John Haggie said that the health deal signed with Ottawa on Tibb’s Eve was the best deal that could be got. Haggie’s probably right. At least, the deal…
Policy is people #nlpoli
Kim Keating is a member of the newly-appointed council to advise the provincial government on oil and gas issues. She’s a professional engineer, a senior official with a local company…
Beethoven’s 9th Symphony
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Canada-NL Health Deal: Warning Signs #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Late Friday evening, the provincial government announced it had signed a deal with the federal government on health funding. We don’t know what the arrangement is on the annual increase…
Spin, illustrated #nlpoli
Spin is a bit more than a mere biased interpretation or a clever reframing of an idea. In other words, there’s more to it than saying the glass is half…
Gender Gap – Sunshine edition #nlpoli
The House of Assembly passed a bill during the last sitting that would allow the government to publish a list every year of all the people working for government who…
Gender Gap, 2004-2014 #nlpoli
In 2004, the median income for men in Newfoundland and Labrador was $10,000 higher than the median income for women. By 2014, the gap in median income between men and…