Profile of Pam Frampton

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• The world according to Guy
  “You see how it is. We are back to square one, to pod auger days. A few rich, a great whack of poor, and nobody in between.” — Ray Guy, The ...
• Divided we fall
  “Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749–1832), German writer, ...
• Unbalanced budget
  “Much of the improvement to our bottom line since mid-year … is thanks to deliberate actions our government has taken to rein in spending without ...
• Dark side of town
  “The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, ...
• Mocking democracy
  “I do not believe for a minute that the people of the province who are here in this gallery or who are watching at home would for one minute ...
• Unsound plan, insecure future
  “…We must not repeat the mistakes of the past by making arbitrary or across-the-board cutbacks, whether in programs, services or staffing, that ...
• Justice blindsided
  “If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: ‘Thou shalt not ration justice.’” — Sophocles As a columnist who has ...
• From riches to rags in 100 days
  “We will continue to build productive relationships; we will continue to provide vision and leadership; and we continue as a people to prosper ...
• The Penashue Show: now in reruns
  “You’ve got a lot of nerveTo say you’ve got a helping hand to lend.You just want to be on the side that’s winning.”— From Bob Dylan’s “Positively ...
• The art of obfuscation
  “Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions … Every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, ...
• No need to panic, folks
  “Now, as never before, we are certain of a future with the promise of opportunity for all.” — Premier Kathy Dunderdale, Dec. 17, 2012, in a ...
• I live in P.E.I. No, wait — I live in Ontario
  “He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.” — Benjamin Franklin So, we found ...
• Mocking the vote
  Last week's revelation that political parties stack phone-in radio shows with their supporters and pad online opinion polls to skew results was ...
• Lives of girls and women
  “Every 17 seconds a woman is raped in South Africa, and it is estimated that a woman born in the country has a greater chance of being raped than ...
• Powering up Government House
  “ … various lieutenant-governors have exercised the powers given to them by law and convention.”— From the article “A Tradition of Vigilance: The ...
• Duck, weave and spin
  “In order for citizens to be involved and engaged and make smart choices at voting time, they need information. It’s time we got some.” — from a ...
• The state of Emergency
  “Many myths exist as to the causes of emergency department overcrowding, including overuse by non-urgent patients and seasonal outbreaks.” — From ...
• What we have here is an emergency
  “An emergency department that is patient focused should communicate to the patients who are waiting, as best they can, what their expected wait ...
• Twitter’s double-edged sword
  Defense lawyer: “Even before jury service, you had an understanding that tweeting could lead to contempt charges?” Jury foreman: “I just imagined ...
• Child’s play
  “Easy to do — exciting, new, creative craft for the entire family. Intended for ages 8 and up.” — From the packaging on a bottle cutter kit ...
• Confessions of an outport lass
  Christmas and feasting are synonymous for most of us. Many of our favourite memories of the holiday season are wrapped up with recollections of ...
• Fragments
  First picture: a young woman, slightly bent, stands by the side of a line of parked cars. She is crying and screaming into a cellphone. Her left ...
• Fragments
  First picture: a young woman, slightly bent, stands by the side of a line of parked cars. She is crying and screaming into a cellphone. Her left ...
• Till death us do part
  “And if the darkness is to keep us apart And if the daylight feels like it’s a long way off And if your glass heart should crack And for a second ...
• 10 short found poems about Muskrat Falls
  (Columnist’s note: I wish more people could get out to the House of Assembly to hear our MHAs in full oratorical flights of fancy, or even ...
• None of your business
  “The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.” — British author Henry Green (1905-1973) The provincial government ...
• Muskrat Falls reports you have not read
  The provincial government is continuing its full-court press for the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project, rolling out report after report ...
• Penashue’s silence speaks volumes
  “This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is ...
• Massaging the Muskrat message
  The message then:“Make no mistake about it, my friends. The quality of our children’s future will be determined by the choice we make right here, ...
• Boom time means more crime
  “Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it.” — Henry Thomas Buckle (1872-1970), English historian Whenever something happens and ...