Amnesia #nlpoli
This week we should find out when the provincial Conservatives will have their leadership convention. The talk around town late last week was that the crowd Danny Williams once called…
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Chill up spine time #nlpoli
Two separate e-mails plunked the same article in the SRBP inbox on Friday. Both highlighted the same quote from this National Post story on Muskrat Falls financing: “The benefit of…
Doing it right #nlpoli
Premier Tom Marshall confirmed on Thursday that the provincial government will be doing the review of the provincial information and privacy law a year earlier than scheduled. They will also…
The Hobby Garden of Meh, Whatever #nlpoli
What’s so striking about the race to replace Kathy Dunderdale as leader of the provincial Conservative Party is how spectacularly unspectacular it is so far. Maybe things will change once…
The Jim Bennett Effect #nlpoli
Having tried to slide by without renewing their party, the provincial Conservatives are now talking up the joys of change. They’ve talked about everything else. Change is the only thing…
Forget the rinse. Just repeat. #nlpoli
The same people saying and doing the same things as they have always done won’t change anything A provincial Conservative started out the week explaining why he cut a deal…
So when’s the next election? #nlpoli
Since Kathy quit and Tom Marshall taking over on Friday morning, people are wondering when we will go to the polls. There’s talk about a snap election. There’s talk about…
Other people’s agendas #nlpoli
If you have not read Kathy Dunderdale’s resignation speech, take a moment and do so now. What is most striking about the speech is that there is absolutely nothing anywhere…
The Second Longest Slow Good-bye #nlpoli
Provincial Conservatives will get together on Wednesday morning and eventually admit the worst kept secret in local political circles: the local Tories will have a new leader before the next…
Shifts and Changes #nlpoli
Kathy is going. Tom Marshall gets to quit politics as interim Premier. That’s if the reports on Tuesday night hold through Wednesday morning. Here are some quick observations: (Read more…)
Minister Lane #nlpoli
In all the political chatter on Monday, no idea got a stronger negative reaction than the one from your humble e-scribbler that Paul Lane had secured himself a plum appointment…
Paul Lane: 2, Dwight Ball: 0 #nlpoli
Paul Lane scored big on Monday. First, he secured his nomination and his seat in the next provincial election by running as a Liberal. As long as the party continues…
Terry Paddon’s Report #nlpoli
If you want to understand what the provincial government’s audited financial statements really mean, you will have to skip Tom Marshall’s comments last week and look instead at the lengthy…
The Consumer Economy #nlpoli
It’s the sort of thing that leaps out at you. As SRBP mentioned on Thursday, in her book Shopping for votes veteran political reporter Susan Delacourt put it in stark…
The Vibrant Unsustainable Super Energy Debt Warehouse #nlpoli
The Conservatives used to say that Newfoundland and Labrador was eastern North America’s energy warehouse. Once Danny Williams ran for the hills and left Kathy Dunderdale in charge, she kicked…
The 2012 Public Accounts #nlpoli
There is always something interesting in the province’s audited financial statements and – sadly – it is often at odds with what the politicians have been saying. On Tuesday, the…
If Nalcor got the peak load wrong #nlpoli
The rolling blackouts on the island of Newfoundland could warn of bigger problems to come, if a new paper by the analyst JM is correct. Underestimating peak load and the…
The Third Line #nlpoli
Most people in Newfoundland and Labrador never think about the electricity into their homes. They don’t know where it comes from and they certainly don’t have any idea how it…