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No Safe Bet: Why Newfoundland & Labrador is Canada’s Casino Holdout

Published on August 28, 2020 in Featured/Journalism/Longread by Rob Csernyik

In 2010, when Colliers International was listing the Battery Hotel and Suites for $15 million, they dared buyers to imagine alternate usages for the property—even those that went against provincial policy. “Newfoundland is one of only two Canadian provinces that does not have a provincially approved casino,” Colliers said in a brochure. “If this highly interesting situation changes, the site is sufficiently large to accommodate a Class A casino and hotel.” “Our policy doesn’t permit casinos in the province,” then-finance minister Tom Marshall told reporters at the time. “There’s been no change in that policy.” When asked if he’d reconsider the policy if a casino application was submitted, he was unequivocal: “No.” By 2014, Marshall was premier and Charlene Johnson, then-finance minister, suggested to reporters that they might be willing to consider a good offer. Saying the government would review proposals stopped far short of saying they would be approved,…

The Patient’s Progress, Part 4

Published on May 15, 2019 in Featured/Longread/Satire by Andy Jones

I’m beginning to think the patient is better off living in his fantasy. After I hear about New Year’s 2018 on the St. John’s waterfront, I want to join him.

The Patient’s Progress, Part 3

Published on May 14, 2019 in Featured/Longread/Satire by Andy Jones

art by Gordon Little

It is October 2007. An emergency all-party government unleashes a political revolution in NL. But a sudden General Strike threatens to derail the province.

The Patient’s Progress, Part 2

Published on May 13, 2019 in Featured/Longread/Satire by Andy Jones

Art by Gord Little

All Townie MHAs receive rural reeducation as the Baymen seize power in Newfoundland & Labrador. Meanwhile, a meal of Chow Mein nearly destroys the province.

The Patient’s Progress, Part 1

Published on May 12, 2019 in Featured/Longread/Satire by Andy Jones

Art by Gordon Little.

Case study: Patient has moved from a depression over the loss of rural life to an hallucinatory state in which rural Newfoundland and Labrador is flourishing.

Taxes and fairness, Part 1: Danny’s other legacy

Published on April 30, 2018 in Featured/Indy Essay/Journalism by Robert Sweeny

We hear a lot about Muskrat Falls as Danny Williams’ legacy, but it is hardly the only problem he left us to sort out. He rejigged provincial income tax rates between 2007 and 2010 so as to primarily benefit our wealthiest citizens. The result is that people earning in excess of $100,000 a year have since received – in the form of reduced taxes – more money than the province normally raises through income tax in an entire year. Income distribution changing Income figures for 2015, recently released by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), reveal our province to be profoundly divided. Our income distribution now exhibits a strangely inverted symmetry: more than half the people earn only a fifth of the income, while a fifth of the people earn more than half. This pattern is new and results from changes in provincial government policy that favour high-income earners. This policy…

Muskrat Falls resistance inspires powerful new music video

Published on October 22, 2016 in Featured/Journalism by Justin Brake

Liz Solo’s “Everything is Leaking” uses images and video from Labrador to address mega projects, political oppression and colonialism.

No, Margaret Wente, all is not forgiven

Published on September 25, 2016 in Featured/To Each Their Own by Rhea Rollmann

Margaret Wente says a recent trip to Fogo Island changed her view of Newfoundland. No, it hasn’t.

History repeats itself…

Published on April 24, 2016 in Letters by TheIndependent.ca

“How in the name of God did it all go so unbelievably wrong? Were we all asleep at the switch?”

Not “Our” Crisis

Published on March 9, 2016 in To Each Their Own by Rhea Rollmann

An anti-austerity manifesto for N.L.

What caused the deficit?

Published on February 16, 2016 in A Measured Opinion by Tom Baird

Two words: Danny Williams.

On the edge of a fiscal cliff

Published on February 10, 2016 in Journalism by Roger Bill

Low oil prices and poor fiscal judgement have pushed Newfoundland and Labrador into a recession. With the looming threat of credit rating downgrades that could cripple the economy, Finance Minister Cathy Bennett doesn’t have much room — or time — to make some tough decisions.

The Indy’s Top 15 of 2015

Published on December 31, 2015 in Journalism by TheIndependent.ca

See which articles and topics Independent readers cast an eye over most in 2015.

“Please, Mr. O’Keefe, Mr. Galgay, and your other sleeping friends: Resign.”

Published on December 23, 2015 in Letters by admin

Former Great Big Sea member and small business owner Bob Hallett says homeowners and business owners in St. John’s feel “abused and neglected” in the wake of city council’s municipal budget. He is calling for the mayor and councillors’ resignation.

When the party’s over

Published on August 13, 2015 in Politically Speaking by Shannon Reardon

In an era of never before seen wealth, they mismanaged our coffers and squandered our nest egg of oil revenues. Now the PC Government is deferring needed social infrastructure because, they say, we have no money.

Our squandered pride and prosperity

Published on May 7, 2015 in Politically Speaking by Shannon Reardon

After reaping upward of $20 billion in offshore oil revenues in a decade, we have little to show for government’s reckless spending. After years of great promises wrapped in fierce pride, the PCs have placed us in worse fiscal straits than before they took office.

The startlingly strange strategy of Seamus O’Regan

Published on December 16, 2014 in To Each Their Own by Rhea Rollmann

Newfoundland and Labrador has entered a new era. Some would like to drag us back to the old.

A night at the Duke…

Published on October 17, 2014 in To Each Their Own by Rhea Rollmann

What happens at the Duke stays at the Duke… until now

Cleanup in Aisle 12

Published on June 19, 2014 in Deadmonton Dispatches by Drew Brown

Frank Coleman’s sudden departure is a hot mess for the Tories

Who’s afraid of Virgina Waters?

Published on April 11, 2014 in Deadmonton Dispatches by Drew Brown

It may have been a close race, but the Virgina Waters by-election win is momentous for the provincial Liberals

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