Effective Speechmaking
Scan down the list of recommended blogs and you’ll see a link to Max Atkinson. He’s a British academic whose made a sideline career out of being a communications consultant.…
Edward Hollett
A challenge for Premier Dunderdale #nlpoli #cdnpoli
“In any thriving democracy, sound public policy can only come through informed debate and discussion.” ”Beginnings” , SRBP, January 3, 2005. Premier Kathy Dunderdale thinks that at least some of…
The Last Weekly Traffic Report for 2011 #nlpoli
The reality of her world Making the world safe for sexism Monkey Cage Round-up The Top Ten for Eleven Undisclosed risk Familiar Furrows The Scribbler’s Picks for 2011 Tory angst…
Familiar Furrows #nlpoli
Kathy Dunderdale spent most of her time in year-end interviews lamenting her critics. No accomplishments. No vision thing. Just a lot of carping. Lots of grousing about her critics and…
The Scribbler’s Picks for 2011 #nlpoli
National Political Story: The Conservatives finally won a majority government in 2011. They turned out to be not-so-scary after all for enough Canadians. Provincial Political Story: OCI’s unilateral start to…
The reality of her world #nlpoli
Some people are trying to make a controversy out of Premier Kathy Dunderdale’s recent comments that public sector unions should “expect a more modest increase” than the salary rises they’ve…
Undisclosed risk (September 12, 2007)
. Take a look at the energy plan consultation document released in November 2006. Try to find any reference to changing the
The Top Ten for Eleven #nlpoli
Tory angst may be well founded (January 2011) Humber West post mortem (February 2011) Connie leadership rigged? (January 2011) Watton to carry Liberal banner in Humber West (January 2011) From…
Monkey Cage Round-up
From The Monkey Cage, some recent posts that also tie to local politics and events: Media “consumption”. A recent post by John Sides at the Washington Post discussed a study…
Making the world safe for sexism #cdnpoli #nlpoli
Year-end political columns and features do nothing if not go for the easy and predictable when it comes to picking the top political story. Jeff Simpson, for example, known to…
Best Political Blog – Final Round of Voting is On!
Okay gang, that was just the preliminary round. Now we are in the finals, along with Fighting Newfoundlander, Gritchick, Impolitical and Dawg’s Blog. Some of you may have skipped voting…
Euphonium Christmas
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Connies grinch consumers on Muskrat review #nlpoli
Anyone who thinks the governing Conservatives in Newfoundland and Labrador are interested in anything but ramming their megadebt Muskrat Falls deal down the public throat, well, those fine people are…
Happy Full Metal Jacket Christmas
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T’was the week before Christmas… #nlpoli
And all the loyal SRBP readers who haven’t voted in the Best Political Blog category can still do so. Click here. When you are done there, you might sample these…
Muskrat Falls: the PUB review story #nlpoli
The Telegram has the best account of the unsuccessful effort by the public utilities board to get an extension on its review deadline for Muskrat Falls. The whole thing is…
Amen, brother, amen #nlpoli #cdnpoli
nottawa asks a good question about politicians, university professors and journalists and discovery of a fairly obvious point about public life in Newfoundland and Labrador since 2003. – srbp –
More Muskrat Fun: HQ, NALCO and PEI #nlpoli #nspoli #cdnpoli
The Ghosts of Hydro-Quebec and NACLO: A pair of readers fired off separate e-mails to point out an alternate explanation for the “anything cabinet decides they can do” clause from…
Federal Liberals fear SRBP #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Well, not just the Sir Robert Bond Papers but all bloggers. Idiots. – srbp –
Undisclosed risk: putting the plan into action #nlpoli
The provincial government is dropping $11.3 million to string fibre optic cables from Goose Bay to western Labrador. The federal government will plunk in $3.0 million with $9.7 million from…