The Good Old Days #nlpoli
Danny Williams made the news last week. Williams was locked in a battle with St. John’s city hall over whether or not Williams could put a big Christmas tree in…
Danny Williams Legacy
The Good Old Days #nlpoli
Danny Williams made the news last week. Williams was locked in a battle with St. John’s city hall over whether or not Williams could put a big Christmas tree in…
The Good Old Days #nlpoli
Danny Williams made the news last week. Williams was locked in a battle with St. John’s city hall over whether or not Williams could put a big Christmas tree in…
Mitigating Muskrat Falls: Ron, Harry, and Hermione are still baffled #nlpoli
Mitigating the impacts Muskrat Falls will have on taxpayers of Newfoundland and Labrador remains the single biggest unanswered question in the province nine years after the project started and the…
Ratings trump truth #nlpoli
Sometimes the universe delivers you the magical set of circumstances you just can’t ignore. Danny Williams turned up at the St. John’s Board of Trade luncheon on Thursday to deliver…
Spending the future (2005) #nlpoli
” That’s very dramatic…Some people are going to stand back and say ‘Oh yeah, that’s just because your very lucky. That’s because the oil prices have gone up.’ Well, no.…
The Reverse Midas Touch Rides Again #nlpoli
The crowd running this place these days has an unrivalled ability to look at a problem and find the worst possible response imaginable. On Wednesday, natural resource minister Siobhan Coady…
Through others’ eyes #nlpoli
For Newfoundland’s pseudo-intellectuals, the Toronto Globe and Mail is a kind of one-handed reading material. They use one hand to scroll down the Internet site looking at stuff. They use…
Policy Stagnation #nlpoli
The provincial government has been on its current course since about 2007. There were three elements to the Conservatives agenda under Danny Williams. They changed somewhat over time but these…
Policy Stagnation #nlpoli
The provincial government has been on its current course since about 2007. There were three elements to the Conservatives agenda under Danny Williams. They changed somewhat over time but these…
The Price of Revanchism #nlpoli
Churchill Falls occupies a unique place in Newfoundland and Labrador's political culture.Most of what people believe about Churchill Falls is just sheer nonsense. Made up. Never true. Completely ludicrous. But…
The Price of Revanchism #nlpoli
Churchill Falls occupies a unique place in Newfoundland and Labrador's political culture.Most of what people believe about Churchill Falls is just sheer nonsense. Made up. Never true. Completely ludicrous. But…
Water Rights, Muskrat Falls, and the Muskrat Falls Disaster #nlpoli
Forget everything else that you know about Muskrat Falls.The entire project hinged on Nalcor's ability to control water flows on the Churchill River. Nalcor's internal assessments showed that without the…
Trump and Proto-Trump and babies #nlpoli
Speaking about his popularity and the loyalty of his supporters: "They say that I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters."…
The little savory details #nlpoli
Nalcor chief executive Stan Marshall said so much last Friday about Muskrat Falls, it's probably true that most people couldn't possibly take it all in.One of the folks having a…
Friends and enemies #nlpoli
Craig Westcott tells a story from his short stint as communications director for the Liberals in opposition in the last days of Danny Williams and the early days of his…
The Fan Klub, Churchill, and taxes – update
As the provincial Conservatives and New Democrats filibuster the levy bill in the House of Assembly that Winston Churchill quote about taxes popped up again.The ones pushing the quote hard…
The New Approach #nlpoli
In 2003, Paul Davis' predecessor as leader of the provincial Conservative party went to Ottawa to beg for a hand-out.Called it The New Approach He got one.Then he begged for…
Thank you, Danny Williams #nlpoli
Rob Strong has been a key player in the local oil and gas industry pretty much since the earliest days. He knows what he is talking about.Strong pointed out to…
Selling energy assets a good thing: Danny Williams #nlpoli
“It was a previous Liberal government that wanted to actually privatize Hydro. This particular government wants to strengthen Hydro, wants to make it a very valuable corporation: a corporation…