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 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.
Both those 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.
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.