Here’s the difference between a province that is successfully tackling the challenge of labour shortages compared to one that is hopelessly adrift. Saskatchewan is open to people from anywhere. In…
It’s not hard to find the toad of truth in the swamp otherwise known as the ruling Conservatives’ record on public spending since they took office in 2003. You can…
Q: When is an independent review not independent? A: When the project proponents control the timetable for completing the report. Or, as voice of the cabinet minister reports: The provincial…
Turns out that his campaign spending was the third smack troubled Tory cabinet Minister Peter Penashue took. First, there was the story that Penashue porked out his campaign manager with…
“The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.” – srbp –
Nalcor’s capital works submission to the public utilities board for 2012 included a last-minute addition of an upgrade to the power lines that connect the Avalon peninsula to the rest…
“To ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.” That line – from God is not…
The Telegram took a very light look on Saturday at the most recent figures on political contributions released by the provincial elections office a couple of months ago. For some…
There are plenty of people out there who pat themselves on the back for telling it like it is, for calling it as they see it. You know they do…
Premier Kathy Dunderdale wants everyone in the province to get involved in the fishery debate. Doesn’t matter who you are. Doesn’t matter what you want. Get in and have your…
Muppets, lawyers and politicians. Problems in the fishery, bad grammar and blatant political patronage. Just another week in the live action edition of the National Midnight Star, otherwise known as…
Liberal leader Dwight Ball’s remarks on taking on the leadership: The Liberal Party has a rich history in Newfoundland and Labrador and I’m proud to be a part of it.…
“I’m optimistic the project is going to succeed,” Nalcor Energy chief executive Ed Martin told the Chronicle-Herald recently. The delay in finishing the negotiations means that, as the CH put…
The first sign of substantive and positive change in quite a while: Dwight Ball takes the job of leading the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador. The fact he is…
Just when you thought they could not get any more loopy, the fried folks at Fox manage to turn a Muppet movie into a tool of “class warfare to brainwash…
Poor Peter Penashue. First, the federal Conservative intergovernmental affairs minister gets hammered for stupidly appointing his campaign manager to a position on the offshore regulatory board even though the guy…
Pay attention to some of the comments about the fishery the past couple of weeks and you’ll here talk about how we need to change the model. For example, labour…
From the Globe’s blog and a post about American comedian Jimmy Kimmel: Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel recently asked parents to give their kids lousy presents a couple weeks before Christmas….…
Fisheries union Earle McCurdy took a political chainsaw to the provincial government on Tuesday, accusing the governing Conservatives of buying “right into sales pitch without there being any evidence of…
Around this time of year the country’s major banks issue their economic assessments of the current year and their forecasts of the coming one. Royal Bank issued the most recent…
