The Keystone Kops Ride Again #nlpoli
We already knew that the provincial cabinet had abandoned their budget before the document had been debated in the House. That happened last week when the Premier ordered the justice…
We already knew that the provincial cabinet had abandoned their budget before the document had been debated in the House. That happened last week when the Premier ordered the justice…
International Association of Business Communicators (Newfoundland and Labrador) presents a professional development luncheon: According to Statistics Canada (2007), Newfoundlanders and Labradorians listen to more talk radio than any other provincial…
Provincial Conservatives in Newfoundland and Labrador have a political philosophy that is equal parts Machiavelli, Kafka, and the Three Stooges. For the first few years they seemed to be constantly…
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Over at cbc.ca/nl, John Gushue has an excellent column on the recent prosperity, in particular the apparent contradiction between a supposedly booming economy and the government cuts or the sense…
Only a few days ago, natural resources minister Tom Marshall was telling us that the Premier was an Iron Lady. A compassionate one, mind you, but an Iron Lady, nonetheless.…
Twice last week, provincial Conservative politicians offered unprompted endorsements of Kathy Dunderdale’s leadership. Natural resources minister Tom Marshall praised her as a compassionate Iron Lady who had his full support. …
The SIDI simulation of government spending that we’ve run this past week might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but these sort of thought exercises are always useful. The most…
According to economist-consultant Wade Locke, the provincial government’s “Sustainability” Plan includes a debt commitment: The long-run target is to bring the province’s net per capita debt gradually down to the…
You don’t need drugs or alcohol to get the feeling of dizziness or stupor like you smacked your head with a hammer. Hard. Repeatedly. Just listen to a representative of…
The number is a hard one to wrap your mind around. $15.6 billion. That’s the amount of oil royalties and mining royalties the provincial government collected from 2005 to 2012.…
We don’t know precisely what economist Wade “the Can-Opener” Locke is doing to earn his loonie from the Newfoundland and Labrador taxpayers. Finance minister Jerome Kennedy hired him this year…
One of the greatest political frauds committed by the current administration and its supporters is the idea that they have lowered the public debt. All the politicians say it. Wade…
From the current issue of Canadian Business comes this little ad that is not an April Fool’s joke from energy company currently running the provincial government: People following the sorry…
April 1, 2013 marks the 64th anniversary of Newfoundland’s confederation with Canada. Here are a few older posts on the subject that stand the test of time: Federalism and the…
Earlier this year, our government projected a deficit for 2013-14 of $1.6 billion. We are now forecasting that the deficit has been significantly reduced to $563.8 million – a billion-dollar…
The throne speech promised that the same Conservative financial management that produced the current financial mess would continue and they delivered in Tuesday’s budget. The strategic problem remains unchanged The…
Monday’s throne speech was so bad that people started making fun of it almost immediately. On Twitter a few of us tried changing lines from famous John Kennedy speeches and…
The Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Labour hired the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives to issue a report on the upcoming provincial budget that basically says all the things that…
Continued from Part A Terry Lynn Karl is the author of The paradox of plenty: oil booms and petro-states., one of the best known books on the resource curse or…