Describing the hole #nlpoli
“Premier Dunderdale has the highest personal popularity of all Atlantic Canadian Premiers” the Tory faithful tweeted and retweeted on Thursday night to help ward off the chill of recent polls. …
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Would you buy a hydro dam from these people? #nlpoli
Anyone who was wondering why the Tories ramped up the attacks on the NDP this week can now find the answer. The clue to the future is that the Tory…
Is he that starved for attention? #nlpoli
The best answer to the Old Man’s latest bullshit about his mine and Muskrat Falls is what he used to say to companies that wanted to get the province’s non-renewable…
Emera waiting on Nalcor for numbers #nlpoli
Wonder no more, dear friends. Stop scratching your chin. Now we know why Nalcor and Emera have not signed a deal now some four or five months after saying they…
Poll math refresher #nlpoli
In advance of the latest Corporate Research Associates poll, check out the SRBP post on the February results. Here’s the Tory voter choice number, over time, compared to actual vote…
HCCSJ operational review a decade later #nlpoli
Talk of financial problems at Eastern Health brought to mind an operational review of the former Health Care Corporation of St. John’s, completed by the Hay Group and released in…
The Precipice Looms #nlpoli
Not surprisingly, Kruger issued an ultimatum on Tuesday to workers at its Corner Brook mill. CBC quoted the message from the company to the union in an online story: "The…
The Kruger Nexus #nlpoli
As an astute reader pointed out in a n e-mail Tuesday morning, the Hebron-Muskrat Falls connection is not really as important these days as the the connection between the future…
The New Hebron-Muskrat Falls Connection #nlpoli
Natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy is right: “There’s obviously an obligation…on any member in this house when presenting a petition to ensure that accuracy, to ensure that statements made to…
The paper-mill-sized elephant in the room… #nlpoli
From the CBC online story about the meeting between a raft of grim-looking provincial politicians and Joe Kruger: Dunderdale said she expected there would be a second vote on the…
Another call for an oil investment fund #nlpoli
In a column in the weekend Ottawa Citizen, Brian Lee Crowley of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute made a convincing argument for investing provincial government oil revenue in an investment fund: Natural…
The Bow-Wow Parliament lacks bark and bite #nlpoli
In the wake of the latest revelations of financial mismanagement in the provincial government, SRBP has been looking at some of the possible contributing developments over the past decade or…
Province sinks more into inflatable shelter company #nlpoli
The provincial government is giving $50,000 to a company in Grand bank that makes inflatable shelters for industrial and emergency use, according to a news release issued Friday. Dynamic Air…
NAFTA and Hebron #nlpoli
ExxonMobil and Murphy Oil have won a North American Free Trade Agreement appeal of a 2004 offshore board regulation that sets the amount of research and development money oil companies…
Dunderdale rejects Locke’s advice on Muskrat #nlpoli
Sometimes you agree with people. Sometimes you don’t. All it means is that you agree sometimes and disagree at others. Premier Kathy Dunderdale didn’t seem to understand that point when…
Mismanagement and Media Math #nlpoli
CBC’s online story takes a weird tack on the tale of recent financial and management problems at Eastern Health, the province’s largest regional health authority. CBC headlines its story “Hospital…
Hebron Development Approved #nlpoli #cdnpoli
From the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board: The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) announced today that the Hebron Development Application is approved. At its April 27, 2012…
What she said… visionary leadership edition #nlpoli
Newly minted Premier Kathy Dunderdale from her 20 Questions interview in the Telegram, December 24, 2010: Still, Dunderdale maintains being premier was never on her radar. She says she’s not…
The Root of the Problem #nlpoli
Mr. Speaker, if the members opposite think that the level of scrutiny that we do over a $3 billion expenditure in health care is to take every single health authority…
The Provincial Public Debt…again #nlpoli
As often as they say it, the facts don’t bear out the claim some politician like to make about the provincial public debt. The Premier did it again in the…