Your humble e-scribbler was on The Broadcast with Jane Adey, discussing the campaign to split the inshore fishermen from the FFAW. Give it a listen if you missed it: CBC podcast.Three points:First, there are a couple of conflicts of interest inhe…
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Setting fire to your own ass is never a good idea #nlpoli
While Paul Davis and the Conservatives were launching their official election campaign, Ryan Cleary turned up in a recorded interview on NTV to talk about the controversy he embodies. The single biggest thing Cleary did was confirm that his answer to David Cochrane last week was a lie. Did you
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Last Friday, CBC’s David Cochrane asked Ryan Cleary about information Cochrane had – apparently from NDP sources – that Cleary had tried to run in a district where the New Democrats already had a candidate. They asked him specifically about Virginia Park-Pleasantville, where the NDP had already announced lawyer Bob
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Ryan Cleary didn’t become the punchline to any New Yorker cartoon at 3:00 PM last Friday afternoon. Peg Norman and other local New Democrats may want to believe he did. But he didn’t.’t Norman laced into Cleary on Facebook Friday afternoon, calling Cleary’s decision to join the Tories “an indictment
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In preparation for the coming general election battle, the provincial Conservatives are digging in their headquarters within sight of the head waters of Shit Creek. They are frustrated, as David Cochrane reports. They cannot lay a glove on Dwight Ball and the Liberals. As a result, “[w]e are going to
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This is Craig Westcott’s editorial from The Pearl newspaper, reproduced with permission.. This is a tough column to write. Taking an editorial position in favour of one candidate over another when both have worked so hard in this election isn’t as easy as some partisans on either side might think.
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As the federal election winds down to the last day, the result is likely going to be nothing any of the pundits expected. Okay, the election isn;t winding down for the parties. For them, it is winding up tighter than tighter, but for everyone else we are coming down to
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Sometime late in the last century, Bloc NDP leader Tom Mulcair said something in the Quebec National Assembly about Newfies. Mulcair apologised for the remark during his campaign stop in St. John’s on Sunday, and well he should “Newfie” is a slur. Even if it is used by people from
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Delusional Hat Trick: Lorraine, Trevor, and Ryan #nlpoli
No sooner had Lorraine Michael pronounced the New Democratic caucus back together again than two of its members announced that they would leave and sit in the House of Assembly as independent New Democrat members of the legislature. Dale Kirby and Christopher Mitchelmore made the announcement in separate media statements
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The story is the kind of thing that used to set the arch-nationalist Ryan Cleary screaming about the ignorance of mainlanders and tearing at his clothes over the latest proof of the evils of Confederation. These days, New Democrat member of parliament Ryan Cleary is apparently not interested in rending
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – On the anniversary of Jack Layton’s death, Tim Harper points out how far the NDP has come in just a year, while Brian Topp highlights where the party still needs to go: (W)hat to do about the federal government’s crisis of relevance? Recent
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: What the cod moratorium wrought #nlpoli
The cod might be gone these 20 years but there are no shortage of people making a fine dollar telling us what it all means. Surely the one making the most cash is Ryan Cleary, pulling down a paycheque as a member of parliament partly on the pledge to have
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Climb-down Cleary is at it again. Not surprisingly, Noob Bloc NDP member of parliament Ryan Cleary is furiously sucking back his latest effort to tell it like it is. First, it was seals. Take a position in 2008. Repeat the position. Then abandon it. Now, it’s pensions. Apparently, he really
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So the politician who used to spill plenty of ink to deride other politicians for holding town halls decided to hold one on his own. (More likely, it was decided for him, what with a bunch of NDP higher ups coming down from the mainland with marching orders). And so,
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If you could get Noob Bloc-NDP member of parliament Ryan Cleary for what he is worth and sell him for what he thinks he’s worth, you could wipe out the Greek national debt instantly. – srbp –
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A year ago, he was running down politicians who host town halls for their constituents. He called himself a s#*t-disturber for saying it. Now that he’s got the job, noob Bloc-NDP member of parliament Ryan Cleary is all there for hosting them. What does that make Ryan now? – srbp
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Now that he’s safely latched on the public tit in Ottawa, Noob Bloc-NDP MP Ryan Cleary says that everything he ever wrote was just to stir debate. Well, that’s what he says now when a journalist confronts him with some of past comments, like bashing the crap out of Quebec,
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Noob Bloc NDP member of parliament Ryan Cleary is on the move. Backwards. In the most recent seating plan for the House of Commons, Cleary’s seat goes all the way down the opposition side of the House down to the seats right next to the Tories, up in the back
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Nycole Turmel offers a reminder that we shouldn’t allow the Cons and their proxies to distract anybody with shiny objects when they’re so obviously wrong on the core issues facing the country: In taking aim at the Conservatives’ priorities, Ms. Turmel criticized Mr.
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Perhaps we should do as the wag said. Perhaps we should appoint a royal commission to find noob Bloc NDP member of parliament Ryan Cleary’s position on the seal hunt. A couple of nights ago Cleary spoke frankly about the seal hunt. Ordinarily, there’d be no nationalist symbol like the
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