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NL Election 2021 District Focus: Lake Melville
Lake Melville is being watched closely by all three major political parties, who see potential opportunity against independent incumbent Perry Trimper.
February 8, 2021

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Editorial
NL Election 2021: Free, Prior, and Informed Consent
Voters do not have the ability to give properly informed consent so far in the 2021 election. That's a major problem.
Drew Brown
February 1, 2021
InterviewNews
NL Election 2021 District Focus: St. John’s Centre
Find out where candidates stand on issues including the province’s changing demographics, paths forward for its troubled economy, climate change, and more.
January 29, 2021
News
An Elephant in the Room: ‘the Economy’ in NL’s 2021 Election
“The one thing citizens deserve is a more honest assessment of what the future in the province holds, and what each of these parties would…
January 26, 2021
Editorial
Newfoundland and Labrador Election 2021: Let the Games Begin
With so much so much at stake, shrouded in so much secrecy, spread out across unruly social media platforms, chaos reigns over the coming campaign.
Drew Brown
January 18, 2021
LongreadNewsProfile
Lela Evans: From Muskrat Falls Protests to MHA
"I made a commitment to my people and I’m going to live and die with that commitment. I’m going to represent my people.”
Rhea Rollmann
June 19, 2019
To Each Their Own
Muskrat Falls Inquiry doomed before it starts?
An Inquiry is too important to be dragged into partisan bickering.
October 1, 2017
Politically Speaking
Please don’t take us for fools
With election campaigns officially and unofficially in full swing, voters are bearing witness to a multitude of promises from politicians. We’re also seeing a rising…
August 27, 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
A Measured Opinion
In defence of tax hikes
No one likes it when taxes go up, but sometimes it's for the best.
Tom Baird
May 2, 2015
A Measured Opinion
Let’s raise taxes on the rich
Years of unaffordable tax breaks for rich people have contributed to a yawning budget deficit. It's time to reverse course.
Tom Baird
April 21, 2015
The Sustain Ability
MUN and the Arctic Oil Frontier
Memorial’s strategic investments in Arctic oil pose environmental risks in the region and to the planet
April 1, 2015
To Each Their Own
Everything is on the table — except common sense
Governing-by-panic is bad public policy
March 16, 2015