Other provinces have elections too: Newfoundland Edition
Over on the Rock, the Tory dynasty is strong - so strong, in fact, that even the loss of its personable leader, replaced with a monotonous cabinet minister who probably…
Kathy Dunderdale
The Twitter Conundrum #nlpoli #nlvotes
Kathy Dunderdale sends messages using Twitter. Herself. Using her own two hands. Someone who has spent about 60 years in this province - give or take – and who has…
The first big political story of the campaign… #nlpoli
And it’s got legs. The story appeared first right here on Monday morning. CBC Monday night with a blockbuster interview with Williams. (Would he have done an interview with…
The Clinton Paradigm #nlpoli
Premier Kathy Dunderdale scrummed with reporters on Tuesday and right off the bat, CBC’s Chris O’Neill-Yates went at the Matthews fiasco. Take a look at the entire scrum. It is…
The Popeye Algorithm #nlpoli
"I am who I am. That’s Premier Kathy Dunderdale speaking to reporters about comments her benefactor Danny Williams made on Monday about Elizabeth Matthews and the botched effort by Williams,…
An ex-Premier scorned #nlpoli
Not content merely to discuss his nomination of Elizabeth Matthews for a seat on the offshore regulatory board, Danny Williams took some pretty heavy shots at his former cabinet members…
To you with affection from Danny #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Anybody who is even vaguely aware of Danny Williams’ attitude to the CBC during his term as Premier will realise what an amazing thing it was for him to sit…
Williams set to offer comms director plum patronage job before he quit #nlpoli
In his final days as Premier, Danny Williams was poised to offer Elizabeth Matthews - his communications director – a plum patronage appointment at the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum…
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…
Three MF Amigos split up #nlpoli
Liberal leader Kevin Aylward may have personally been waffling about Muskrat Falls a week or so ago, but his position has shifted: An Aylward led government would immediately halt all…
The Power of Confusion: The Three Amigos Update #nlpoli
Premier Kathy Dunderdale doesn’t understand the criticism of the federal government’s recent announcement of a loan guarantee for the Muskrat Falls megadebt project Provincial NDP leader Lorraine Michael, for one,…
Venus in Furs: Muskrat Falls edition
There’s a kind of political writing that makes you squirm. On the face of it, and in isolation, a sentence can be perfectly correct. The problem comes when the politician,…
No Kathy for Kent
Danny’s gone from Steve Kent’s website. In fact, the website that hadn’t been updated since 2007 is gone entirely, replaced with a new one. So hasty was the old one…
Three parties, two leaders, one policy, no sense
Remember that thing about hardly being able to slide a sheet of paper between the three political parties in the current general election? Well, newly minted Liberal boss Kevin Aylward…
Did I say yes to Muskrat? I meant “no”: Jones
Political decisions in Newfoundland and Labrador are apparently like the local weather at least as far as the current crop of party leaders in the province is concerned. Wait a…
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…
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…
Disconnected from Connecticut
Tuesday's papers will undoubtedly be picking up on this CP story in which the topic of discussion flowing from the New England Governors and Eastern Premiers was the delay in…
You say potato, I say road apple
Kathy Dunderdale thinks it’s all much ado about nothing. Dunderdale commented in response to a Telegram editorial that noted a set of reports prepared for Nalcor on the Muskrat Falls…