Not so very long ago, provincial Conservatives were crowing about how they would be running all sorts of mining projects in Labrador using electricity from Muskrat Falls. These days, the word from Labrador isn’t all that good. One mine is closed and, on Tuesday, things looked bad both for the
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Gone, baby, gone #nlpoli
In September 2008, four cabinet ministers went to Harbour Grace to announce that the provincial government was giving the company $8.0 million in public money, interest free. The provincial government communications people circulated a picture of the four at the time – from left, Jerome Kennedy, Danny Williams, Paul Oram,
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Populations #nlpoli
Ross Reid has a new job. He used to be federal fisheries minister. Since 2003 or so, Ross has been a deputy minister in the provincial government. Lots of people got excited last week when Premier Kathy Dunderdale announced that Reid would be deputy minister responsible for the provincial government’s
Continue readingcalgaryliberal.com: Ms. Redford’s Fudget-Budget: Not Open, Not Transparent, and Definitely Not What She Promised
Ms. Redford’s expectation that the price of oil would stay high (we’re currently hitting a nine-month low for oil), her spending promises be fulfilled, and that a PC government would be a stable choice for Albertans, has fallen flat. She ran on the regular non-Conservative spending sprees — even where
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