While I'm gone...
A brief break
Work takes me away from the usual schedule so there’ll be a new column Monday coming. You have Friday off.
Try not to wreck the place while I’m gone.
Here are some things to chew over in the meantime:
Andrew Furey does NOT oppose the federal government’s emissions caps. Period. He 100% endorses anything the federal Liberals want to do. He has never opposed them on anything, which is why the offshore is in decline. No bids for land parcels for the second year in a row. Production diminishing and Bay du Nord highly doubtful if the current federal government remains. If Furey’s “engaged” about the Atlantic Accord, it will be about giving his approval ultimately to whatever the feds want, likely with little or nothing in compensation.
Generic Canadian University in Newfoundland and Labrador - formerly Memorial - is out of control. It needs a major change at the Board level with wholesale reappointments starting with the chair. That’s a government thing and neither the current crowd or the alternate crowd will do *anything* to fix what’s wrong so this is just wishful thinking. After the Board change, it needs an enema at the executive level where the bloat and the strategic misdirection are just continuing to drive the once-proud institution further up on the rocks. The only deep the university is plumbing these days is debt and corruption.
Roger Bill at the Shoreline explains in the latest issue how most of the traffic to the province’s immigration website is likely from bots. Not real people. Not potential immigrants.
The first two comments are prompted by pieces at AllNL. If you have not subscribed to them, you are missing out on the real news in Newfoundland and Labrador.
The House of Assembly will finish up this week after a pathetically short sitting that began two years ago, believe it or not. Just for fun, look at all the legislation not delivered, including the balanced budget law and electoral reform. Meanwhile, wonder where the new prison is. Expect it to be added to the “campus” at Kenmount Crossing, at least for the announcement, if people keep asking.
Saturday Update:
Debt, destruction, and corruption are the three strategic goals of the current GCU leadership as their latest decision shows. They plan to shut down hiring of people who do work and assign resources based on student interest, which is what every idiot beancounter - I know it’s redundant to say that - did at every other university only to further weaken the institution.
But Neil Bose hired his buddy to what smells like a made-up job at a huge salary without a talent hunt of any kind. This is *exactly* what Vianne did and no one has corrected the bloat of VPs hauling down huge salaries with no return on the expense (it’s not an investment). The interim President is just hiring *his* buddies in new jobs.
We also learned on Friday the GCU’s budget strategy was simply take the current budget and hike it every year, most recently by more than anyone would hav reasonably projected the university income. There is *no* strategic direction at all. Correction. There’s no sense at all.
It seems to me that the NL provincial Liberals are so closely tied to the Fed Liberals that were the Fed gov to switch hands to the Fed PC, the NL Liberals would be “adrift at sea” with no guiding policy of their own. I suspect that we will soon find out.