The NDP leader sets her sights on all that’s possible, focusing her positive energy well beyond her quest to remain the MHA for St. John’s East-Quidi Vidi
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You wouldn’t imagine what’s on Alison Coffin’s to-do list by running into her on the street, or in our case, catching up
Know how the 1992 Quentin Tarantino classic, Reservoir Dogs was named? As the story goes, there was a pile of unsolicited scripts filed under the same name and it contained movie scripts, all figuratively vying for attention, just like dogs stuck in a reservoir tank waiting to be selected and
The longer I hold down a permanent position, the further I distance myself from school, adolescence and those days of not caring about things like bills and the almighty dollar, the more I think on things, cliched things, like ‘love what you do.’
What’s more? You’ve got to feel that
I laugh at those who in self- righteous indignation or in perceived political opportunity rise up on their hind legs and rail against the $25,000 price tag on entering the Liberal leadership race. Unless you came into town on a load of turnips you should know that it is “a
The Liberals were slicker than goose crap on linoleum in the Dwight Ball resignation announcement.
One day Dwight was a happy, if embattled, premier. A couple of days later the dice were tumbling into place for a leadership succession. I wasn’t rocked to my boots by the announced exit. Word was
Remember ‘‘No more giveaways?’’ Those were fighting words direct from the often spitey and habitually saucy chops of then premier Danny Williams as he battled and bulldozed his way to a seat at the proverbial up-along table to get us what was rightfully ours.
Of course, Williams had a few
It was the day of the rate mitigation press conference that this odd feeling of déjà vu swept over me. We always seem to be in the middle of something that has us peering over the edge of a steep cliff. That cliff, often, is of our own making. I
John Crosbie will never be forgotten, whether it’s for his political legacy and prowess, his wit, or his fearlessness facing adversity
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The Herald had the pleasure of sitting down with John Carnell Crosbie on many occasions. Scanning the archives here at what once was The Sunday Herald, it’s hard to turn
“Ye know not the day nor the hour.”
The quote is from the Bible and refers, not to the nights of political long knives but rather, the Second Coming. All that as introduction to the idea that for three of the national leaders of Canada’s political parties the future is
You know there are worse things that could have happened than electing a minority Liberal government. It is first of all a strong minority. Just a little help for the Liberals on individual policy issues from the New Democrats or elsewhere and they are fine.
There will be of course