Some observations on the state of the news media in Newfoundland and Labrador, circa 1988, from Dr. Susan McCorquodale, "Newfoundland: personality, party, and politics" in Gary Levy and Graham White,…
Some observations on the state of the news media in Newfoundland and Labrador, circa 1988, from Dr. Susan McCorquodale, “Newfoundland: personality, party, and politics” in Gary Levy and Graham White,…
The public policy advantage of quantifying or estimating what the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador might get in revenue from Churchill Falls 21 years from now is that it takes…
The public policy advantage of quantifying or estimating what the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador might get in revenue from Churchill Falls 21 years from now is that it takes…
Laws suits get filed in court. Political claims for cash launch with a news conference, a website, and a deceptive news release that misidentifies the target of the action. The…
Laws suits get filed in court. Political claims for cash launch with a news conference, a website, and a deceptive news release that misidentifies the target of the action. The…
The New Colonialistsdon't look like the old onesThe last day of September is known as Orange Shirt Day. It is a day to remember residential schools for Indigenous people, which,…
The New Colonialistsdon’t look like the old ones The last day of September is known as Orange Shirt Day. It is a day to remember residential schools for Indigenous people,…
Last week, the Liberal governments in Ottawa and St. John’s unleashed a bold new innovation in political announcements. Fridays used to be the day when governments buried announcements, they didn’t…
Last week, the Liberal governments in Ottawa and St. John’s unleashed a bold new innovation in political announcements. Fridays used to be the day when governments buried announcements, they didn’t…
Mr. Justice Don Burridge(Not exactly as illustrated) Supporters of the travel ban won a victory last week as Supreme Court Justice Don Burridge said it was okay to ban travel…
The Husky gambit last week presents the province’s leaders with a fundamental challenge. Do we continue on the current path or do we change? This is not just a question…
Lots of people are very worried and some are quite upset about the government’s plan to re-open schools next week. There’s more than enough controversy, way too much noise, and…
Last week,testimony in the travel ban case by the province’s chief medical officer Dr. Janice Fitzgerald and epidemiologist Dr. Proton Rahman confirmed the extent to which decisions taken by the…
This evening Liberals will elect a new leader. And about two weeks from now – likely Friday, February 14 – the new leader will take the oath of office and…
Herb Kitchen died last week. He was the minister of finance in the early 1990s who brought down the difficult budgets, starting in 1991 that were part of a plan…
Spring 1994. At the point Clyde Wells spoke to the graduating class of Memorial University’s business school that year, the administration he led had already started getting government spending under…
Change is hard. It’s even harder when no one wants to change. Our Former Dear Premier Some people outside the Liberal Party have been obsessed lately with the leadership contest…
At the end of December 2019, the Muskrat Falls Oversight Committee added development of alternate protection and control software for the high voltage direct current transmission system – that is,…
“First and foremost, be totally honest with the electorate,” former Premier Clyde Wells told Anthony Germain on CBC’s Sunday Edition last weekend. He was giving some general advice to the…
