Good news for heraldry enthusiasts everywhere: at their last convention, the provincial Liberals voted to look at re-examining and potentially re-designing Newfoundland and Labrador’s coat of arms.
As you know, reason is powerless in our demon-haunted world. Instead of ushering in a general period of enlightenment, in 2018 it turns out that constant 24/7 access to the internet actually melted everybody’s brain.
Last month, premier Dwight Ball confirmed what many of us had long suspected: that his plan for The Way Forward involves digging the province…
Don’t look now, but there’s another provincial political party leadership race happening this spring. What an exciting time in Newfoundland and Labrador’s political history! As long as we ignore all the other bad stuff, I mean.
Gentle readers: I am bursting with excitement. Provincial politics is in for a gangbusters tumble when the Progressive Conservatives choose a new leader in the spring.
Here’s a list of 2018 New Year’s resolutions for Newfoundland and Labrador, the West Virginia of provinces:
Byelections generally only offer us a limited snapshot of the political climate in a given system, and this goes double for the district of Mount Pearl North. St. Johns’ pluckiest suburb has been ardent Tory turf more or less since its inception.
Here, in no particular order, are some ideas for what we could do with the old Sears
The Boy Wonder will be sorely missed, if only because his empty seat in the House of Assembly means there will be a by-election that will force everyone to confront how dysfunctional our political system is right now.
But lately I’m wondering how much of the disorder we see at the Confederation Building stems from the fact that our municipal politics in this province are an even bigger mess.
“It’s the legislative equivalent of parking a truck diagonally across three handicap spaces and planting land mines around it in case anyone calls a tow truck.”
“The institutions of government set up in 19th century Canada were never meant to be particularly democratic.”