Everything old is not new again #nlpoli
Trying to blow off the implications of last week’s Environics poll, former natural resources minister Shawn Skinner trotted out another line in this week’s edition of On Point with David…
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Selective Perception and Strange Bedfellows #nlpoli
Labour federation president Lana Payne tweeted last week about the latest labour force figures in the province. And that’s true. According to Statistics Canada, the province recorded the highest ever…
Frankenstein – Final
A bit more work on Sunday morning and Frankenstein’s monster is done. The colouring is unconventional. The instructions call for black or dark brown for the jacket and pants. A…
Work in progress: Moebius’ Frankenstein #nlpoli
Here’s a close-up of Moebius’ Frankenstein, the project currently on the old modeller’s workbench. The detail is a little fuzzy because the picture is via a cellphone not a real…
The Happiness Index #nlpoli
Leave it to labradore to come up with a new way to look at poll results. He took the results of “satisfaction” questions in polls going back about a decade. …
Minister to attend play #nlpoli
Telling the world that tourism Derrick Dalley will attend a play – no matter what play it is – would not be considered news and it sure as hell would…
More Hole Spotting #nlpoli
After the shock that evidently settled into the local Tories, the next most obvious thing about Thursday was the complete absence of any official provincial Tory anywhere saying anything about…
Hole-spotting: the Environics Poll Results #nlpoli
By now you have likely heard it all. In one corner are the raft of people trying to dismiss the Environics poll as an outlier, an aberration, the logical result…
A latent political bomb #nlpoli
A few employers have noticed changes to the province’s Labour Relations Act that slipped quietly through the House at the end of the last session. A story in the Telegram…
Environics latest national poll #nlpoli
As the country comes out of the long-weekend stupor, a few people noticed a poll released on June 29 by Environics. Nationally, it shows a very small lead for the…
Beaumont Hamel and the Newfoundland nation #nlpoli
Mark Humphries is an historian at Memorial University. He spoke with CBC’s Chris O’Neill-Yates on July 1 about the impact of Beaumont Hamel on Newfoundland and Labrador. Humphries does an…
What the cod moratorium wrought #nlpoli
The cod might be gone these 20 years but there are no shortage of people making a fine dollar telling us what it all means. Surely the one making the…
Commemoration Day 2012 #nlpoli
Beaumont Hamel (2010) Newfoundland and the Great War (2010) Commemoration Day 2009 Some July 1 Reading Suggestions (2008) -srbp-
And he is still wrong #nlpoli
The guy who helped create the monster called Nalcor thinks Muskrat Falls is a great idea. But Lieutenant Governor John Crosbie backs it for a completely wrong reason. Crosbie told…
The Premier and her glass house #nlpoli
One of Kathy Dunderdale’s more obnoxious qualities is her love of insulting other people. She couldn’t let the House close without doing it a few times just for good measure.…
Muskrat Falls Policy Shift: The Audio #nlpoli
You read the post. Now listen to Tom Marshall. -srbp-
Shifting from non-renewable to renewable #nlpoli
Scan through the official record for the House of Assembly for the spring 2012 session and you will find example after example after example of a variation on this theme: …
Major Policy Shift on Muskrat Falls, or Uncle Tom’s Problem #nlpoli
Finance Minister Tom Marshall called VOCM Open Line on Wednesday morning to talk about Cabot Martin and the pile of cash Tom is sitting on. Poor Tom. He was so…
Garnishee Tom’s pension first #nlpoli
Spendthrift finance minister Tom Marshall is willing to spend your money and mine to keep the Corner Brook paper mill afloat. As CBC tells us, Tom is keeping the options…
Not even close to a Heritage Fund #nlpoli
A few people likely read Cabot Martin’s opinion piece in the Telegram on Muskrat Falls this past weekend and scratched their heads. Open Line show host Randy Simms certainly did.…