The Confidence Campaign #nlpoli #darknl
The provincial government started its campaign to gain control of the political agenda on Thursday with its announcement that it would appoint someone to do something sometime in the future.…
Edward Hollett
Dunderstan #nlpoli
In January 2012, Ed Martin and his nasally drone ridiculed the idea of shifting demand for electricity from one part of the day to another so that his company wouldn’t…
Crises within crises #nlpoli
The action of the Soviet Union, Winston Churchill once said, “is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” Some people in Newfoundland and Labrador likely felt that way…
A tale of two crises #nlpoli
Kathy Dunderdale did two major interviews on the first working day since the start of the Nalcor generation crisis. One was with registered Nalcor lobbyist Tim Powers (# 777504-14002) who…
The Great Blizzard/Blackout 2014 #nlpoli
Some observations: 1. Yep. It’s a crisis. When you have a major utility cutting electricity to people in a blizzard at random, for random periods of time because it cannot…
The SRBP 9th Anniversary #nlpoli
It all started on January 3, 2005 and as of today, the Sir Robert Bond Papers is nine years old. As your humble e-scribbler writes this on Thursday evening, the…
The 2013 SRBP Themes (Part 3) #nlpoli
Government is about making decisions. In trying to understand what is going on, how governments make decisions is sometimes more important than what decisions get made. That’s why SRBP has…
The 2013 SRBP Themes (Part 2) #nlpoli
Federal provincial relations Cast your mind back to the early part of 2012. Kathy Dunderdale was frustrated. She couldn’t figure out how to deal with the crowd in Ottawa. Suck…
The 2013 SRBP Themes (Part 1) #nlpoli
The end of the calendar always brings the string of Best of, Top 10, and any other kind of year in review piece. In the conventional media it’s the season…
The SRBP Top 13 for 2013 #nlpoli
For your reading pleasure as we head into the last weekend of 2013 is the list of the top 13 stories at SRBP, as determined by what the readers turned…
O Holy Night
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Sleigh Ride
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The Hollowmen of Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli
Some of you may have been surprised to find out this weekend that Nalcor has a scheme to import cheap electricity into the province. A couple of Nalcor officials could…
Ghouls, vultures, and a-holes #nlpoli
The marine rescue sub-centre story is one of those things that typifies politics in Newfoundland and Labrador. It’s entirely the creation of a few politicians with their own agenda and…
Province abandons fisheries policy…quietly #nlpoli
Two years. That’s all it took to destroy the provincial government’s historic fisheries policy that had been built on the highly successful state-controlled model pioneered by such economic powerhouses as…
Record churn in senior public service in 2013 #nlpoli
Three deputy minister appointments announced on Tuesday brings the number of senior executive appointments in the public service to 24 in the second half of 2013, according to information from…
Danny to fire publicists? #nlpoli
Someone organized a stunt designed solely to gain publicity and no one invited the Old Mullet Hisself to huff and puff and pose for the cameras. Clearly, the people handling…
Leading by example #nlpoli
The Liberal Party executive may have screwed up by failing to put in place any campaign finance rules during the recent leadership but the candidates are putting it right. Liberal…
Inertia #nlpoli
In a letter last May to his federal counterpart, economic development minister Keith Hutchings described minimum processing requirements as the “only only policy instrument within provincial jurisdiction that ensures fisheries…