The Patient’s Progress, Part 4
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.
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The Patient’s Progress, Part 3
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.
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The Patient’s Progress, Part 2
All Townie MHAs receive rural reeducation as the Baymen seize power in Newfoundland & Labrador. Meanwhile, a meal of Chow Mein nearly destroys the province.
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The Patient’s Progress, Part 1
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.
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Taxes and fairness, Part 1: Danny’s other legacy
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…
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Muskrat Falls resistance inspires powerful new music video
Liz Solo’s “Everything is Leaking” uses images and video from Labrador to address mega projects, political oppression and colonialism.
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No, Margaret Wente, all is not forgiven
Margaret Wente says a recent trip to Fogo Island changed her view of Newfoundland. No, it hasn’t.
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History repeats itself…
“How in the name of God did it all go so unbelievably wrong? Were we all asleep at the switch?”
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Not “Our” Crisis
An anti-austerity manifesto for N.L.
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What caused the deficit?
Two words: Danny Williams.
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On the edge of a fiscal cliff
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.
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The Indy’s Top 15 of 2015
See which articles and topics Independent readers cast an eye over most in 2015.
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“Please, Mr. O’Keefe, Mr. Galgay, and your other sleeping friends: Resign.”
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.
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When the party’s over
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.
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Our squandered pride and prosperity
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.
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The startlingly strange strategy of Seamus O’Regan
Newfoundland and Labrador has entered a new era. Some would like to drag us back to the old.
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A night at the Duke…
What happens at the Duke stays at the Duke… until now
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Cleanup in Aisle 12
Frank Coleman’s sudden departure is a hot mess for the Tories
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Who’s afraid of Virgina Waters?
It may have been a close race, but the Virgina Waters by-election win is momentous for the provincial Liberals
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Series finale for Republic of Oil?
Why Newfoundland and Labrador’s oil reserves may be left untapped
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