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Premier Ball Wearing Out the Emperor’s New Clothes

Published on February 15, 2020 in Opinion by Hans Rollmann

Well, there it was. The big announcement. The big rate mitigation plan. The rescue plan to save us all from Muskrat Falls, the hydro megaproject that was sold as the province’s future and instead has morphed into the self-destruct button. Ever since they were elected, it seems, the Liberals have been announcing plans to save us from Muskrat Falls. Or more properly speaking, they’ve been announcing plans to come up with plans to save us from Muskrat Falls. Or rather, plans to make plans to come up with plans to save us from Muskrat Falls. Well, you get the idea. Even if you don’t get the plan. (But it’s the Progressive Conservatives’ fault, of course! Have they mentioned that yet?) But this was supposed to be it—the big one. The one we’ve all been waiting for. And what did it turn out to be? You guessed it. They’ve welcomed the…

Walking St. John’s After the Blizzard of the Century

Published on February 7, 2020 in Featured/Opinion by Elizabeth Yeoman

The whole city glistened, alabaster white and silent except for the cheerful calls of people greeting each other as they snowshoed and skied around the neighbourhood, and the louder shouts of younger more daring citizens snowboarding down Holloway Street on what Drew Brown called “the island’s sickest ski jump.”1 For three days our neighbourhoods turned back into communities, people had time for each other and, well, a lot of people had a lot of fun. And then the cars were allowed back on the roads. Obviously, people had to get food and medical supplies and they had to get back to work. The nurses who did forty-hour shifts and the hotel workers who stayed on for days to look after people from out of town had to get home. Not every neighbourhood has a food store in walking distance and not everybody can walk even if theirs does. But that…

Dwight Ball is Untouchable

Published on December 4, 2019 in Opinion by Jon Parsons

If Dwight Ball has learned anything amid all the turmoil and unrest of his first mandate, it’s that it can’t touch him. He just needs to ride it out.

Ecological Ethics and Oil in Newfoundland and Labrador

Published on October 30, 2019 in Climate Change/Letter/Opinion by Jon Parsons

Ecological ethics confronts petroculture because it does not view the world through markets, and does not privilege our own well-being ahead of others’.

Andrew Scheer is a Lab-Grown Meat Puppet in Jason Kenney’s Plan to be Prime Minister

Published on October 18, 2019 in Satire/The New Alberta Report by Tim Mikula

The reason Jason Kenney is in Ontario on the federal campaign trail is because he is here for a good time, not a long time.

Keeping It In the Ground

Published on October 16, 2019 in Analysis/Opinion by Tom Baird

Is directly targeting offshore oil production the most effective way to fight climate change in NL? Or should we focus more energy on reducing local demand?

Remembering Judy Lynn Ford & the Power of Student Action

Published on October 15, 2019 in Letter/Opinion by Matt Barter

On October 17th, 1980, Judy Lynn Ford was struck and killed by a truck while crossing Prince Philip Parkway. It sparked a week-long student insurrection.

Climate Strike Newfoundland & Labrador: What Next?

Published on October 7, 2019 in Opinion by Jon Parsons

Government has been saying the same thing for decades: we accept climate change is happening, but we’re not going to do anything to stop oil production.

Sex Work is Not the Same as Sexual Exploitation

Published on September 30, 2019 in Opinion by A. N. Onymous

As someone who has worked freely as a sex worker and someone who has experienced sexual exploitation, I can say unequivocally: the two are not the same.

The Dirty Politics Behind Cleaning NL’s Dirty Water

Published on September 18, 2019 in Opinion by Marilyn Reid

Supporting a fiscally irresponsible P3 “solution” for wastewater defers true costs and make immediate budgets look more ‘responsible.’ Is that a temptation?

A Visitor’s Guide to Alberta: Canada’s Misunderstood Province

Published on September 10, 2019 in Featured/Opinion/The New Alberta Report by Tim Mikula

There’s more to us than cowboys and crude oil. Did you know the Caeser was invented in Calgary? We also ran a eugenics program until 1972. Go Alberta go!

Speaking as a Car-Owner: It’s Time for a War on Cars

Published on September 9, 2019 in Analysis/Featured/Opinion by Robin Whitaker

Owning a private motor vehicle no more accords you rights to extra public space than owning real estate accords you more votes in a general election.

Life After Muskrat: What Have We Learned?

Published on August 8, 2019 in Opinion by A. N. Onymous

Will the Inquiry really do anything? That remains to be seen. The people of the province still have to deal with the reality of the Muskrat Falls project.

Moody’s Blues, or: Commission of Government 2.0

Published on July 26, 2019 in Analysis/Featured/Opinion by Russell Williams

Yesterday’s news is not the end of the world. But it’s a small part of a larger process: our control over Newfoundland & Labrador’s future is slipping away.

On Escaping Your Own Prison: An Introduction of Sorts

Published on July 19, 2019 in Featured/Opinion/Personal by Sarah-Dena Drucilla Harnum

You’re probably wondering why a person would create such a tiny space for themselves, this prison cell. Well, why does anyone build walls? For protection.

Here’s to a Harassment-free House

Published on June 17, 2019 in Opinion by Gina Gill

A safe and respectful workplace opens the doors for a diversity of players to participate in politics. The system itself becomes an accessible option.

On the Stoppage of Crime

Published on June 5, 2019 in Featured/Opinion/To Each Their Own by Hans Rollmann

A modest proposal: that crime is not stopped by terrorizing a city with a guerilla marketing campaign aimed at encouraging people to snitch on the poor.

Put Education on the Ballot

Published on May 15, 2019 in Analysis/Opinion by Robin Whitaker

We need institutions where critical inquiry can be freely pursued by scholars and cultivated among students. The future of NL depends on it.

#NLRising, 3 Years On

Published on May 8, 2019 in Opinion/Politics by Colleen Power

The 2019 NL provincial election is just eight days away, and yesterday marks three years since the #NLRising rally on Confederation Hill, organized by the NL Federation of Labour. I was invited to sing a couple of songs, so I took the opportunity to write a new one, directly addressing the 2016 Liberal austerity budget. Out came ‘Go Away Dwight and Cathy’, which singled out cuts to education and library closures, cuts to healthcare, and the ‘deficit reduction levy’. The 2016 Liberal budget was an attack on the people of Newfoundland and Labrador, there is no doubt about that. But people spoke out. The rally worked, to some degree. The song? The downfall of writing political songs is that they are only usually relevant to a situation for a short period of time, however, they will always remain historically significant. ‘Go Away Dwight and Cathy’ never gets much airplay these…

Your Vote Is Your Consent

Published on May 3, 2019 in Featured/Opinion by Megan Gail Coles

I am talking to teenagers about consent. In the courthouse alongside, Chantel John’s mother suffers through a slew of new charges against her daughter’s accused murderer. Newfoundland and Labrador is attempting to hold this man accountable. Though in the land of Mary March, it is difficult indeed to ignore the violent colonial locomotion that blasts through us regardless of our objection or intent. I hike round a river named for these exploits. It is beautiful big birch country. The water is surging fast-forward with the spring breakup in full-on yellow flop where new-wet meets rock-face. The running signage recounts a tragic tale taught to us via elementary school readers. A Beothuk woman resisting capture exposes herself to her aggressors. The courts of the day rule there was no malice in her kidnapping or her husband’s death during the abduction. Their baby died, too. We are always told she revealed her…

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