Pesticide ban regulation not even written yet
While everyone may think the provincial has banned the cosmetic use of pesticides, a quick check with the province’s environment department confirmed this afternoon that not only haven’t they gazetted…
Edward Hollett
Labour crunch coming
Only the naive or the demented would portray the looming labour crunch in the province as a “tremendous opportunity”. A report released on Wednesday by the provincial human resources department…
The Ballot Question: October 2011
Here’s the question for voters to decide in this fall’s general election as the party leaders themselves have defined it. If you want: guaranteed high electricity prices in Newfoundland and…
Public sector job growth outpaces private in NL
From labradore: In the five years since the recent-historic low, in early 2006, of about 55,600 public-sector employees, the public-sector labour force has increased by about 11,500 or over 20%.…
Not much to see
The Telegram’s Russell Wangersky looked ahead to the fall election and didn’t like what he saw. Wangersky’s assessment is brutal but it is accurate. The Liberals: “When someone who isn't…
A world of their own
Kathy Dunderdale showed up in the province again to talk about the wonderful reception her Muskrat Falls megadebt project got from the New England governors. Two things stood out right…
Cross yet another one off your list
Intergovernmental affairs minister Dave Denine won't be seeking re-election this fall, according to media reports. So much for the claim last December that all Tory incumbents were seeking re-election in…
All three NL parties back Muskrat project
Voters in Newfoundland and Labrador who are worried about the current Tory administration’s plans to double the public debt and public electricity rates need worry no longer. The project will…
The placeholder election
No matter what the outcome, all three political parties in the province will have new leaders before the 2015 contest. In December, the Tories decided to postpone their leadership fight…
Political parties and debt: the Kennedy perspective
Political parties usually carry around debt. Some carry more than others. Some parties don’t carry any. Is it an issue? Maybe. Just for the fun of it, consider this portion…
Forecasting the fall
Pick up a sharpened pencil. Now take a clean, white sheet of paper from the computer printer. Close your eyes and make a small round mark on the paper with…
You might know it as bribery, Ma’am
The eagle eyed nottawa picked up on something in a column by Michael Johansen at the Telegram. It’s a reference to a cash payment due to the Innu of Labrador…
Wally Young’s in trouble
You can tell the Tories are worried about their support in St. Barbe because they’ve scheduled not one, not two, but three announcements in the district starring health minister Jerome…
Dexter admits NS didn’t do Muskrat Falls homework
In an interview with The Coast, Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter admits his government didn’t exercise due diligence before signing onto the Muskrat Falls project: The Coast: Has the Nova…
Strangling energy innovation
The Telegram editorialists are finally putting it all together, at least when it comes to the provincial government’s energy company, the Muskrat Falls project and taxpayers: It looks a lot…
Traffic for people lined up at the Basilica
This was an amazing week in Newfoundland and Labrador politics. Summer arrived with a vengeance, traffic at the humble e-scribbles is back up and the theme this week seems to…
Sucker bet: windy moose version
The guy who did such a bang-up job of looking after the Hurricane Igor disaster is now the guy leading the fight against moose-vehicle collisions. Anyone care to wager on…
Makes it official, then
Noob Bloc NDP member of parliament Ryan Cleary is apparently getting some criticism. Here’s the way Voice of the Cabinet Minister reported Cleary’s comments on one of the radio station’s…
Okay, so it wasn’t a bus after all
But that doesn’t mean natural resources minister Shawn Skinner escaped completely unscathed from his episode on Backtalk on Wednesday. Here’s the latest version of a story about comments Skinner made…
Skinner throws AG under bus
Natural resources minister Shawn Skinner threw outgoing Attorney General John Noseworthy under the bus on Wednesday as he contradicted the AG’s claim he can’t get access to some of the…