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Moody’s Blues, or: Commission of Government 2.0
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.
July 26, 2019

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News
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…
February 10, 2016
Power and Dissent
N.L.’s fiscal crisis was not inevitable
Yet our politicians tell us we all must pay.
January 23, 2016
Letters
A plan for the Liberals?
"The time is ripe for real change in Newfoundland and Labrador."
January 16, 2016
Power and Dissent
Entropy and N.L. political imagination
As the provincial economy circles the drain, it is apparent the Liberals have no plan.
January 13, 2016
Letters
Continuation of Muskrat Falls abusive and neglectful
"The time for excuses is gone. The time for action is now."
January 5, 2016
Letters
Oil prices will rise as they have before
In response to Shannon Reardon's May 7 column, "Our squandered pride and prosperity".
January 3, 2016
News
The Indy’s Top 15 of 2015
See which articles and topics Independent readers cast an eye over most in 2015.
December 31, 2015
Uncategorized
Dwight Turn?: Neoliberalism, Newfoundland-style
Can the province's new Liberal government deliver a "stronger tomorrow", or will incoming Premier Dwight Ball build on the dangerous legacy left by Danny Williams…
December 3, 2015
The Good Life
“Time is not money”: Homestead Economics (Pt. 1)
Are you caught up in the rat race? The principles of homestead economics might just be your way out.
November 13, 2015
A Measured Opinion
Muskrat Falls is no longer the “least cost option”
Was Newfoundland and Labrador's largest expenditure ever a mistake?
Tom Baird
October 1, 2015
A Measured Opinion
Looking back at a decade of PC tax cuts
With the province reeling from a crash in oil prices and record budget deficits, we look back on a decade of tax cuts by the…
Tom Baird
August 14, 2015
Politically Speaking
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…
August 13, 2015