A tisket, a tasket
You gotta love subtle minds, especially subtle political ones able to see nuances of meaning or the possibility you could rub your tummy and pat your head simultaneously. That would…
Kathy Dunderdale
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…
Hello? Hello?
I'm normally not one for telling tales out of school. But having sat it on a handful of meetings between Prime Ministers and Premiers, and having regularly set up phone…
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…
An Unsurprising Correlation
Check this out:Newfoundland & Labrador Premier Kathy Dunderdale, in a speech to the St. John's Board of Trade, Febraury 23, 2011 (emphasis added):"Our province has never been in a stronger…
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…
Politics and Disasters
Even to people not desperately in need of help in the wake of last year’s Hurricane Igor, it was pretty obvious - at the time - the provincial government was…
Political impotence and the little blue pills
Fish minister Clyde “The Finger” Jackman is going to fight to save a local coast guard co-ordination centre and its dozen jobs. Well, that’s what the torqued CBC headline says.…
The perils of polling stories
Not surprisingly, local media reports of Corporate Research Associates’ most recent quarterly poll got the news spectacularly wrong. For example, the Telegram reported that “upport for the provincial Conservatives has…
Dunderdale disapproval doubles; Tory vote drops to 44%
What a difference a federal election can make to provincial poll results. According to the latest Angus-Reid poll, 43% of respondents are satisfied with Kathy Dunderdale’s performance as premier down…
Dundernomics 101: All your toasters are belong to us
labradore does yet another fine job exposing the completely ludicrous claims of those backing Kathy Dunderdale’s Empire of Debt, doing business as the Muskrat Falls project. Specifically, labradore tackles the…
Give Danny the money
Your humble e-scribbler is no fan of handing public cash to private sector companies for any reason. And make no mistake: when Danny Williams claims the provincial government would make…
Dundernomics 101: the cost of doing business
Premier Kathy Dunderdale, displaying her keen awareness of mathematics – among other things - in the House of Assembly on Monday, May 9: Mr. Speaker, Hebron costs are driven by…
Crude price forecasts don’t support Dunderdale’s empire of debt #nlpoli
Crude oil prices are the pedestal on which Kathy Dunderdale’s empire of debt called Muskrat Falls is built. The provincial Conservative’s plan to burden the people of Newfoundland and Labrador…
If this is Friday, it must be yes…
Or is it no? First, they were going to give Danny his cash for his hockey team. Then 24 hours later they decided - emphatically and unequivocally – that the…
Reductio ad argentum: senatorial elections version
With the Conservatives who have been running the province since 2003, everything reduces to cash. For them, the only principle is cash. Not surprisingly, when it comes to the idea…
How stuff works
Former Premier (and wanna-be subsidized hockey team owner) Danny Williams tells the CBC why he should get favourable treatment and a wad of cash from an unspecified government kitty for…