Migrants and Migrant Labour #nlpoli
Russell Wangersky devotes his Tuesday column this week to migration and labour. He starts out with a discussion of the recent quarterly population figures from Statistics Canada, notes that they…
Edward Hollett
The Truth Hurts #nlpoli
For those of us who loved the West Wing, we can look forward to his latest effort, an HBO series about news media called The Newsroom. And we can be…
Alberta-bound #nlpoli
This graph will likely cause some people to scratch their chins or heads. The reason is simple: it isn’t the story they’ve been told, namely the one that holds that…
$#*! Jerome said: Hebron Benefits #nlpoli
Hear what comfortable words Jerome! sayeth, back when he was finance minister (December 9, 2008): The $4 billion six-year plan is as much as we can handle right now along…
More $#*! the Premier said: copper fastened Hebron Benefits #nlpoli
December 16, 2009 Mr. Speaker, their ignorance of this project is staggering, and what is frightening about it is they put this out like they are speaking the truth. Mr.…
$#*! the Premier said: Hebron Benefits #nlpoli
November 27, 2008: One of the things that I am proudest of – I mean, the benefits that we negotiated under the Hebron agreement have never been seen in this…
How Irish are we: Serbian edition
It’s the Serbian accent that really makes it. -srbp-
Caribou over Afghanistan
Your eyes are not playing tricks on you. That’s a DHC-4 Caribou, known to Americans as a C-7, upgraded with turboprops. They are indeed 50 years old, but they still…
444 Squadron: answers to questions #nlpoli
As a general background on 444 Squadron at Goose Bay, here is the text of a question posed in the House of Commons by member of parliament Marc Garneau and…
Looking beyond the Hebron sandbox #nlpoli
ExxonMobil drew a line in the sand this morning, and the minister and I are here to draw another line in the sand, as far as this project is concerned.…
More to it than oil prices #nlpoli
Politicians spent a few hours this week harrumphing about the impact falling oil prices might have on the provincial budget this year. The problem for the provincial government is not…
Dear Jack: Turn off your frackin’ phone #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Talk about making an arse of yourself in public. Here’s Jack Harris in the House of Commons: -srbp-
No stinkin’ knowledge required #nlpoli
Say one thing for Kathy Dunderdale, she tells it just like it is. In response to questions about the qualifications of four people the provincial government recently appointed to the…
Premature Budget Panic #nlpoli
Premier Kathy Dunderdale didn’t bring up crude oil prices at a scrum after her speech to the offshore industry association. Reporters did. No harm. No foul. That’s the way these…
Shit the Premier says: dems da facts version #nlpoli
“When your first piece of information is wrong,” said Premier Kathy Dunderdale in the House of Assembly on Monday, “you can pretty much assume…that the rest of it is wrong…
Shit the Premier says: law and democracy edition #nlpoli
Last week the gang at the Center for Law and Democracy were, in the words of justice minister Felix Collins, a “two-bit outfit.” This week, things are different. Now the…
Nalcor’s Dark Secret #nlpoli
Since its creation, Nalcor has existed in a perpetual conflict of interest of one kind or another. SRBP raised the issue of conflict of interest 2006 when Dean Macdonald –…
Conflict of Interest and the Nalcor board appointments #nlpoli
2050 hrs – Mulligan Update – scroll to the end Leo Abbass is the mayor of Happy Valley-Goose Bay. He is a staunch of supporter of the Conservative Party. He…
More background on the Twitter and ATIPPA #nlpoli
One Twitter exchange on Monday morning raised the possibility that Tory MHA Paul Lane was referring to something that happened during the debate last week on changes to the access…
Tories involved in violation of privacy act #nlpoli
The temperature in the House of Assembly is not even cooled down and Tory legislator Paul Lane (Mount Pearl South) is likely to find himself in the middle of a…