NL after the oil boom and hydro bust #nlpoli
Newfoundland and Labrador Historical Society George Story Lecture and Annual General Meeting Marine Institute – Hampton Hall The Return of History? Newfoundland and Labrador after the Oil Boom and the…
Newfoundland politics
On the need for politics #nlpoli
Politics the art of pursuing common interests through …active listening, advocacy, public persuasion, compromise and negotiation. Bob Rae William Ford Coaker,the father of the Commission The people from Newfoundland and…
First Wells ministry, 05 May 1989 #nlpoli
May 5, 1989 was a Friday. It only took the couple of weeks between the election on April 20 that year and May 5 for the government to change hands…
Dependence and Independence #nlpoli
For those who might be interested, Tuesday's post on Churchill Falls and Wednesday's post on the road to Muskrat Falls are a summary of a draft on hydro-electricity development that's…
Gandhi, Mandela, and a guy in a chicken suit #nlpoli
If the provincial New Democrats had sent a garden gnome around the province, odds are that the photos he'd have brought back would be more interesting than the stuff Earle…
The possible shift #nlpoli
If the polls are right, we could be looking at an unprecedented shift in politics in Newfoundland and Labrador. We could be looking at lots of things but it’s a…
The Great War and Newfoundland Political Memory #nlpoli
“It is sobering to think,” historian Sean Cadigan wrote in the Telegram on Tuesday, “that the memory of the casualties of war has been used partially for later political purposes…
Identity Crisis #nlpoli
Newfoundland is changing, Michael Crummey writes in the Newfoundland nationalists’ newspaper, the Globe and Mail. House prices are climbing in St. John’s. There are plenty of expensive restaurants around and…
Remembering… or not #nlpoli
The news release that announced a provincial commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the First World War includes right at the start a picture of two couples, one older, and…
Provincial Unrest
Alison Redford’s approval ratings have fallen to “Stelmachian” levels Angus Reid has released their quarterly Premier approval ratings. As per usual, Brad Wall is more popular than God, and everyone…
Some Thoughts on Politics, Myth, and Identity #nlpoli
Your humble e-scribbler saw a couple of comments last week that said the NDP town hall on Muskrat Falls was a good argument against having a referendum on the megaproject. …
A Mythbuster’s Rebuttal: Transmission Lines, Holyrood Oil and Renewable Resources
I have to give Ed Hollett credit… he is a sharp minded fellow. After my blog on Tuesday where I purport to debunk three myths on Muskrat Falls, Hollett responded…
The NL Big Picture: NDP Tops Tories in New Poll, Liberals Showing Signs of Return
It has certainly been an interesting couple of days. On Wednesday I published a blog which argued that for the first time in post-confederation NL history, the upcoming provincial election…
Beaumont Hamel and the Newfoundland nation #nlpoli
Mark Humphries is an historian at Memorial University. He spoke with CBC’s Chris O’Neill-Yates on July 1 about the impact of Beaumont Hamel on Newfoundland and Labrador. Humphries does an…
Provincial Matters
Charest stands a better chance running against this guy, than against Pauline Marois and Francois Legault Your Friday morning coast-to-coast link roundup: Atlantic Canada: CRA’s quarterly poll numbers have been…
A river runs through it #nlpoli
Jerry Bannister’s paper “A river runs through it: Churchill Falls and the end of Newfoundland history” is now available in the latest issue of Acadiensis. This paper was the basis…