9/11/01
Edward Hollett
On missing the point
Mark Watton has been leading the charge against sections of the province’s election laws that allow people to vote when there is no election. On the face of it, the…
SRBP on Radio: Muskrat Falls
For those who missed it, here’s the audio from your humble e-scribbler’s Labour day call to Open Line. h/t to Dave Adey who has been relentlessly documenting Muskrat calls to…
Traffic for September 5 – 9, 2011
ya know that something is going on when the traffic at ye olde e-scribbles starts jumping up by 25% from the previous month. And that’s a real 25%, not an…
Aylward questions Nalcor on choice of consultant
Liberal leader Kevin Aylward has sent a letter to Nalcor boss Ed Martin asking about Nalcor’s use of Navigant as the consultant the company chose for a review of the…
Dateline: Desperation, Newfoundland
Finance minister Tom Marshall called the province’s major radio talk show on Thursday to promote the Muskrat Falls power project. He quoted from a book by Wally Read and L.J.…
And he is known by the company he keeps…
With the anniversary of 9/11 coming, people seem to have forgotten an invitation that went out to President Barack Obama to come to the province for the anniversary. As the…
Rideout tags Tories for election pork-fest #nlpoli
Former premier Tom Rideout didn’t mince words about the orgy of pork-barrel spending his former caucus colleagues have been pushing in the run-up. On a political panel on Tuesday morning,…
There’s no greater fraud than a promise not kept … Goose Bay version
While one can argue about frauds and unkept promises, there’s certainly no greater laugh riot than listening to defence minister Pete MacKay try desperately to explain to a gang of…
Danny, Gary and Steve: old inconsistencies die hard
Apparently your humble e-scribbler isn’t the only one who found it amusing that an anti-Harper former premier is campaigning in pro-Harper country for a Conservative who doesn’t share the Old…
The Joy of Political Giving: Look for the Union label
The single biggest political donation, bar none in 2010 did not come from any private sector business. It came from the United Steelworkers of America (Toronto, On). $20,000. That’s from…
The Joy of Political Giving: if you want to build it, they will give
Construction, design and engineering companies gave the provincial Conservatives $239,725 in political donations in 2010, according to figures from the province’s chief electoral office. Companies in the design, engineering and…
RCMP investigating SNC Lavalin officials over corruption allegations
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigating officials of the engineering firm SNC Lavalin, according to media reports on possible corruption charges related to a $1.2 billion bridge project funded by…
The Joy of Political Giving: punch in the bake edition
It’s always interesting to see who gives to political parties. The province’s chief electoral office quietly released the 2010 summary of political donations by individuals and corporations. Interesting to see…
What you can see at the horse race…
Horse race polls are the heights of political journalism in some circles despite the fact they tell very little about what is happening in voters’ heads. But since this is…
We can always sell it…
You can tell the gang pushing Muskrat falls are having trouble meeting the arguments against their scheme to jack up power rates and the public debt. They are now talking…
Election 2011 and the Resource Curse
During the current provincial election you are going to hear a lot about natural resources and the need to spend the money that comes from it on all sorts of…
Democracy Watch: Duff’s guff #nlpoli
Let’s get it simply stated up front: Democracy Watch is the most inappropriately named organization on the planet, bar none. They don’t watch for one thing. And on the specific…
The Politics of Cynicism: even worse than thought edition #nlpoli
If they accidentally accumulate enough credits to a form a government after the next election, the provincial New Democrats will keep taxing small business income at 14%. What the provincial…
BNL and BBT at ComiCon 2010
The Big Bang Theory Labour Day marathon is about to start! - srbp -