Get me re-write!
The headline on the story is catchy: Inquiry needed on centre closure: advocate At the start of second paragraph you find out that the advocate the headline writer is referring…
Edward Hollett
A room with a view of the pork barrel
The provincial ambassador’s office in Ottawa costs the better part of a half million a year to run, hasn’t had an ambassador in it for the better part of the…
Payback is a mother: Conservative edition
“…rationality has little to do with political myth making…” Tim Powers, Conservative backroom guy and Ottawa lobbyist, wrote that in a recent post over at the blog space he has…
Fortis fighting two tin-pot bureaucracies
Newfoundland and Labrador based Fortis is seeking compensation for seized electricity production assets seized by two governments half a continent apart. The company is seeking payment for its interest in…
Saturday Snickerfest
After her communion scrum, Premier Kathy Dunderdale led reporters in a brief prayer in which she asked for divine help to get her out of the political quagmire she’d made…
Traffic that transcends the overpass
Well, did she know in advance? Minister Chickenshit Kremlinology 36: Thinking with your ass Will one of them change parties? Like Momma says, stupid is… Penis Envy Belize dannys Fortis…
Phriday Photo Phunny
Reporters took the time to ask her a few questions as a confused Premier Kathy Dunderdale lined up for communion outside the House of Assembly. Got a better caption? Send…
Like Momma says, stupid is…
It takes an especially keen political genius to take someone else’s political problem and make it yours. It takes an even rarer form of political genius to take a guaranteed…
Experts warn of external threats to recovery
Along with population statistics, here’s another one you can bet the current provincial Conservative crowd won’t be holding out quite as enthusiastically as the fabricated version of Bank of Canada'…
Like sands through the hour glass…
Adios John Hickey, the Pavement Putin of the Permafrost. The ever-troublesome labradore offered a fitting tribute to Hickey as leaves politics. The staunch defender of the Muskrat Falls megadebt project…
Dunderdale dunder-fail on SAR call centre
Kathy and Steve had a nice chat on the phone, but Stephen Harper’s biggest Newfoundland and Labrador fan couldn’t persuade her guy to change his mind about shifting a search…
Population drops in NL again
Recent population figures from Statistics Canada suggest the recession is over and things are getting back to normal. Population in Newfoundland and Labrador dropped in the last quarter primarily due…
Cross Putin off your list
Add the Pavement Putin of the Permafrost to the list of provincial Conservatives who won’t be seeking re-election come the fall. John Hickey won’t be running again, since apparently two…
Expectations
Having jacked expectations through the ceiling, Kathy Dunderdale better convince Stephen Harper to commit to halt the transfer of the jobs at the coast guard search and rescue co-ordination office…
Belize dannys Fortis
Almost three years after Danny Williams’s Conservative administration in Newfoundland and Labrador expropriated Fortis’ electricity assets in the province, the government of Belize has taken a leaf from Williams’ playbook…
Well did she know in advance?
The shipyard that supposedly had so much work it didn’t know what to do just laid off 250 workers. Makes you wonder why the company dropped out of a lucrative…
Penis Envy
I’ll share a quote with you now from Canadian marathon runner Peter Maher that I found interesting: "Running is a big question mark that's there each and every day. It…
Kremlinology 36: Thinking with your ass
We’d all like to think that political ideas come out of politicians’ heads after careful thought and lots of research. In Newfoundland and Labrador, government ideas tend to spring from…
US has surplus electricity
A conference in Halifax last week heard a tale of electricity demand in the United States that you certainly aren’t hearing from proponents of mega-debt projects north of the border.…
This week has 22 e-mails
The controversy over the provincial government’s bungling of the emergency response to Hurricane Igor got a bit more curious on Monday when labradore released a series of e-mails he obtained…