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Would the Last Person Out Please Turn Off the LIghts?

@ October 31, 2006 # No Comment Yet

How can anyone, especially Premier Danny Williams, watch 5,000 to 10,000 people pack themselves into the Capital hotel for a job fair held by out of province employers and not consider using every tool at their disposal to promote industrial development and keep people here?

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Lower Churchill - Last Chance for Newfoundland and Labrador

@ October 27, 2006 # No Comment Yet

As a citizen of Newfoundland and Labrador, it’s difficult for me to understand the mentality of premier Danny Williams these days.

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Canada’s Embarrassing Foreign Minister

@ October 26, 2006 # No Comment Yet

Peter Mackay, a man of poor character and slim talent

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Is Transport Canada Fee Gouging in Newfoundland and Labrador

@ October 24, 2006 # No Comment Yet

In Newfoundland and Labrador one of the biggest impediments to business and tourism is the cost of transportation, not to mention its impact on the traveling public in the province. It’s a pretty sad state of affairs when flying from one part of the province to another, say from St. John’s to Goose Bay, can [...]

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Will Lower Churchill Be Another Giveaway?

@ October 22, 2006 # No Comment Yet

I’m so sick of the giveaway mentality shared by successive governments in Newfoundland and Labrador. People in the province have rallied behind Premier Danny Williams since he came to office. They tout him as Dan da Man, the guy who is going to end giveaways once and for all, but is he really?

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Pandering to America’s megalomania

@ October 22, 2006 # No Comment Yet

By Robert Billyard

An open letter to Frank McKenna, the Liberal party, and Canadians at large

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Support our troops - bring them home

@ October 21, 2006 # No Comment Yet

There is certainly no issue more important to Canada’s future than the current war and occupation of muslim lands. The increasing number of dead Canadian soldiers being sent home for burial is causing people to wake up and form an opinion one way or the other. I personally side with those who believe the [...]

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Israel, Palestine and Canada

@ October 21, 2006 # No Comment Yet

A highly divisive prime minister

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Let them send their kids to Afghanistan

@ October 19, 2006 # No Comment Yet

As I began writing this (October 3, 2006), two more Canadian soldiers were
reported killed in Afghanistan and five others wounded.

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Politics Makes Strange Bed Fellows

@ October 19, 2006 # No Comment Yet

Premier Danny Williams’ threat to torpedo the federal Conservatives in the next election has resulted in the pelican plop hitting the fan and led to a rather odd reaction from the provincial Liberal party in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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