Trends #nlpoli
How do you keep in place the very necessary and successful restrictions on public life needed to combat the spread of CVD19 when the success of those measures reduces the…
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Doctor Aggie’s H’Answer #nlpoli
“What do I have to do to get you to listen?” health minister John Haggie asked rhetorically and with considerable exasperation at Monday’s daily COVID-19 briefing. Haggie was ranting once…
Number of active COVID cases in NL declines dramatically #nlpoli
Newfoundland and Labrador is already emerging from the first wave of the COVID-19 infection. The data from the provincial government’s daily COVID-19 media briefings is clear. Starting on April 6,…
Financial Fustications #nlpoli
If we had Equalization, we’d have a budget surplus. On Friday, 20 Mar 20, Premier Dwight Ball wrote to the Prime minister to say that the financial arse was out…
Bollocks #nlpoli
Kill the wabbit? Moody’s has changed its outlook on the provincial government’s debt from stable to negative while sustaining the A1 rating it gave the province in July 2019. That,…
All around in circles #nlpoli
Going around in circles must be frustrating. Plummeting crude prices have dropped refining margins to negative numbers and so it isn’t surprising that Come by Chance refinery announced Sunday it…
Facing the financial wall, again #nlpoli
Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro makes money by making and selling electricity. In 2018, the last year for which we have statistics, Hydro made about 40 gigawatt hours of electricity and…
Bank of Canada to help GNL make payroll #nlpoli
Bank of Canada234 Wellington St, Ottawa The Bank of Canada announced today that it will purchase up to 40% of money market securities with terms to maturity of 12 months…
The doctor is out… of the province #nlpoli
Health minister John Haggie announced on Friday that doctors in the province could now start seeing patients remotely either by telephone or using video conferencing. Kinda bizarre, though, given that…
Experience Counts – COVID Economic Balls-Up Edition #nlpoli
On Friday Premier Dwight Ball took a question from reporters about the Liberal leadership that is still underway. In a moment of egotistical boasting, Ball said it “takes experience to…
Cleaning up the mess of Muskrat Falls #nlpoli
There are a couple of points in his 1,000 page report where commissioner Richard LeBlanc refers to politicians and other officials of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador as being…
NL after the oil boom and hydro bust #nlpoli
Newfoundland and Labrador Historical Society George Story Lecture and Annual General Meeting Marine Institute – Hampton Hall The Return of History? Newfoundland and Labrador after the Oil Boom and the…
Remembering Simon Lono #nlpoli
Today is Simon Lono’s birthday. He would have been 57. This coming Saturday there’s a celebration of his life. Drop by and share in the memories. And if you cannot…
Oil, Premiers, and Coming Soon #nlpoli
Impact of Hebron flat royalty at prices below US$50click to go to 2015 post West Texas Intermediate and Brent crude were both trading below US$50 last week. Oil from the…
On the need for politics #nlpoli
Politics the art of pursuing common interests through …active listening, advocacy, public persuasion, compromise and negotiation. Bob Rae William Ford Coaker,the father of the Commission The people from Newfoundland and…
Settlement in ExxonMobil dispute #nlpoli
CNLOPB regulates the Newfoundland and Labrador offshore The Government of Canada and ExxonMobil have reached a settlement in the oil company’s 16-year-old dispute over the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum…
Interesting news, buried under bull #nlpoli
There are two aspects to Monday’s announcement about Muskrat Falls and electricity rates: political and practical items related to Muskrat Falls. Another set of decisions are actually related to the…
The Rate Mitigation Circus of Horrors #nlpoli
Late Friday evening, the Muskrat Falls rate mitigation circus came to town. Again. Around 7:40 PM, long after everyone with sense had gone home for the day, natural resources minister…
Sliding by #nlpoli
Sliding b’ys. During the recent emergency in eastern Newfoundland and Labrador, both the provincial government and the City of St. John’s denied the public access to basic information about the…
City bungled emergency. Residents paid price. #nlpoli
EOCs bring key people together in one spot with the information needed to make crucial decisions during an emergency. Now we know why the City of St. John’s emergency response…