Government hiring process revealed #nlpoli
From your humble e-scribbler’s e-mail this week came a copy of what is purported by an anonymous e-mail to be a sooper sekrit document. It appears to be the rules…
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It’s all about export, eh #nlpoli
On Tuesday, natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy told the House of Assembly: Essentially, what Muskrat Falls does, it allows 40 per cent of the power for the Island to meet…
If the people are silent… #nlpoli
…if the people are silent, you call them content; if they protest, you say that they are given to disorder; and in the one case as in the other, they…
Unions oppose energy conservation device #nlpoli
Unions representing Hydro-Quebec employees are oppose to a plan to install so-called smart meters in Quebec homes. According to the Montreal Gazette: One week before the Régie de l’énergie is…
When you suddenly become the enemy… #nlpoli
For those of us in Newfoundland and Labrador who – from the outset – opposed the political style that settled on this province after 2003, it’s been a fascinating exercise…
Discussion is healthy, indeed #nlpoli
From the Telegram a former chief of staff in the Premier’s Office puts it as eloquently as only he could: If public discussion, questions and debate on any issue should…
Lay-offs, Noseworthy and other things the Premier talked about #nlpoli
Listen closely and you can hear the beep-beep-beep of the garbage truck of government comms as it backs up on the idea of laying off public sectors workers as a…
Kremlinology 39: What Burke didn’t say #nlpoli
In defending the $140,000 –a-year patronage job she gave to former Tory candidate John Noseworthy, advanced skills minister Joan Burke told the House of Assembly: Mr. Speaker, no one can…
Government cash give-aways #nlpoli
CBC’s Rob Antle has updated work done over the past couple of years on government give-aways to private sector businesses in the name of economic development: The Newfoundland and Labrador…
Poll Math #nlpoli
Just for the heck of it, here’s the most recent CRA marketing poll adjusted to take out the misleading way CRA reports its clients poll numbers. Here are the Conservative…
Dundernomics 101: Public Sector Employment Numbers #nlpoli
In an interview with CBC’s David Cochrane, Premier Kathy Dunderdale said that the public service has grown by more than 2,100 jobs in the past eight years and that total…
The truth is an absolute defence #nlpoli
Seems that the goings-on in the provincial legislature are weighing heavy on many brows at the end of the first week the place is back in session since this time…
CNLOPB announces 2012 call for bids on offshore parcels #nlpoli
From the offshore regulatory board: The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) announced today the details of a Call for Bids in the Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Area. Call…
Kremlinology 38: what they left out #nlpoli
In a news release from the federal natural resources minister that heralded the future of Newfoundland and Labrador is energy, they didn’t mention the Lower Churchill once. – srbp –
Enough of the Political Day-Care #nlpoli
In some respects, it is a threat that would strike fear only into the hearts of Danny Williams’ Tories: If this problem is not resolved today, you can expect me…
How much is that Muskrat in the window? #nlpoli
So without much effort, the cost of Muskrat Falls, also known as the island infeed project, has gone from $6.2 billion to $8.9 billion. That’s without factoring in labour costs.…
They who lived by the bullshit… #nlpoli
Regular readers of these e-scribbles will know that the quarterly Corporate Research Associates poll is cause for nothing if not a fair bit of derision. They aren’t polls anyone should…
Shooting fish in a barrel #nlpoli
Okay. So with the Premier babbling about cuts or not cuts, you could guess where the opposition parties would go during their second Question Period. Yeah, well guess again. Because…
Studies on mortality questioned #nlpoli
Studies that claim exercise reduces the risk of mortality can’t be true since the risk of mortality is absolute. You can delay death, but it, like taxes and a Ryan…
Checking Jerome’s Numbers #nlpoli
In the House of Assembly on Tuesday, natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy said: The Muskrat Falls Generating Station will cost $2.9 billion and the Labrador-Island Link will cost $2.1 billion.…