Lorraine Michael should bear in mind that some very famous Newfoundland and Labrador politicians found themselves accused of defaming someone. That’s really the essence of the current question of privilege…
To some people the provincial Conservatives are in fine political shape. They are so firmly entrenched in power that they can afford to piss people off, to polarise the electorate.…
From a second rebuttal to justice minister Felix Collins, right (not exactly as illustrated) from the Center for Law and Democracy: In a speech to the House of Assembly on…
From resolute Forest Products: MONTREAL, June 15, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ – Resolute Forest Products (NYSE: RFP) (TSX: RFP) today announced that it will indefinitely idle the Mersey newsprint mill located…
There’s something about this frivolous and vexatious thing that caught people’s attention right from the start. Under the provincial Conservatives’ new secrecy laws, a cabinet minister can refuse to disclose…
The more they talk, the worse it gets. In the House of Assembly on Thursday, justice minister Felix Collins gave some examples of what he would consider "frivolous and vexatious”…
Justice minister Felix Collins and his colleagues are having a bad week. Felix and his buds want to limit public access to government information. They want to make it harder…
“Oil and democracy do not easily mix,” wrote political scientist Michael Ross in The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations, his 2012 study of the impact…
Under changes to the province’s access to information law, briefing notes for cabinet ministers will be kept secret for five years. Sounds like it might make some sort of theoretical…
CBC demolished the false claims a couple of Conservative cabinet ministers made in order to justify their efforts to destroy the public’s access to government information. Justice minister Felix Collins…
Democracy is a beautiful thing. The people of Newfoundland and Labrador are witnessing its full beauty in the filibuster against the Conservative government’s latest assault on openness, transparency and accountability. …
Here’s a map showing the possible seat results for an election where the Tories wind up with 41% of the vote, the NDP get 38% and the Liberals get 20%. …
Rarely does one cabinet minister put on not one or two spectacular displays of incompetence in one session of the legislature, but justice minister Felix Collins has done that this…
“We will amend the Access to Information legislation to enhance the transparency of government actions and decisions.” Danny Williams, Leader of the Opposition, February 2003 There truly is a greater…
Last Friday, your humble e-scribbler gazed into the old crystal ball and produced a possible poll result if the recent trends continued. If you reported them the way Corporate Research…
As a rule, when a cabinet minister speaks publicly about a private sector company’s significant financial problems, things are not good. Natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy told the world on…
"I would go to an election tomorrow on these numbers," Premier Kathy Dunderdale told reporters on Thursday. "You know, these aren’t bad numbers. Look where my opposition is." Fair enough.…
The provincial government announced the latest round of Pure Pork (TM) patronage appointments on Friday. They've stuck four people on the board of the provincial energy corporation. Aside from Tory…
One of the reasons why the provincial Conservatives are in political trouble is that their communications are frigged up. For those who are wondering, that is the relatively polite version…
David Cochrane's report on the latest CRA poll is the tidiest one you will find. He puts the whole thing in a context that anyone can understand even if some…
