Dwight and Tom’s legacy: more of the same #nlpoli
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…
Edward Hollett
Change versus more of the same: Summer 2020 edition #nlpoli
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…
The challenge of change #nlpoli
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…
Muskrat committee flags cost risk for potential alternate transmission software #nlpoli
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,…
Building on our successes #nlpoli
“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…
All the news the mob will let us print #nlpoli
Saltwire laid off a hundred or so people last week, 25 of them in Newfoundland and Labrador. The most recent cuts are the result of revenue drops due to COVID…
SCC decision complicates school budgets for fall 2020 #nlpoli
The provincial government’s budget problems, the amount it spends on education, and its plans for the fall living with COVID-19 just got a whole lot more complicated thanks to the…
Racism in Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli
An expression of power and privilege Some people in Newfoundland and Labrador are talking about racism. This is good. Unfortunately, they are talking about racism somewhere else. This is bad.…
Mimicry and Pantomime #nlpoli
A couple of thousand people turned out in St. John’s on Saturday for a rally organized by a new group calling itself Black Lives Matter NL. They listened to speeches,…
The facts of the case #nlpoli
From the start of the pandemic, the provincial government took decisions for political reasons, not medical ones. It continues to do so. It is clear that the provincial government has…
Fighting the Boogeyman with Dwight, John, and Janice #nlpoli
Ontario Premier Doug Ford pleaded with Ontarians to get tested for COVID-19 on Sunday, even if they were not showing any symptoms. He repeated the call on Monday after a…
In front of your nose #nlpoli
Orwell, c. 1940Colourised by Cassowary Colurization A truly free and democratic society must be based on fundamental rights and freedoms that individuals may enjoy and that are restricted rarely and…
The Authoritarian Impulse #nlpoli
Special Measures Enforcement Jim Dinn used to be a teacher. As head of the provincial teachers’ union, he spearheaded a drive against the public’s right to know how politicians spent…
Terra Nova field production halted for up to two years #nlpoli
No one should be surprised that the partners in the Terra Nova field are planning to lay up the production platform and will likely stop production from the field until…
Ferkakte #nlpoli
In the past 36 days, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador has reported no new cases of CVD-19 on 21 of them. Three weeks worth of zero. More than a…
The Bow Wow Parliament creates a Kangaroo Court #nlpoli
The Bow Wow Parliament The first casualty of the current pandemic in Newfoundland and Labrador was democracy and on Tuesday, the pandemic added to its draconian toll. A handful of…
The trouble with bubbles #nlpoli
Another type of Bubbles Stay in your bubble. A cute, clever little phrase that Newfoundlanders and Labradorians have been hearing for weeks. We all assume it means something like protect…
Troubling travel ban may be illegal, unconstitutional #nlpoli
Government of Newfoundland and Labrador guards atCOVID-19 Border Check Point(not exactly as illustrated) No other province in Canada has banned travel into the province by non-residents in the way Newfoundland…
Bursting bureaucratic bullshit bubbles #nlpoli
The daily average for new CVD cases has been declining since late March. In one of the provinces hardest hit by COVID-19, Ontarians got a roadmapon Monday on how the…
The three CVD19 pressures the NL government will face #nlpoli
Last week, SRBP raised the likelihood that declining numbers of active cases of CVD19 in Newfoundland and Labrador will put pressure on the provincial government to ease the current restrictions…