Profile of Bob Wakeham

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• Wrapping a muskrat in the flag
  If you didn't know differently Monday evening, you'd have sworn CBC reporter Lee Pitts must have had an inkling that the announcement of the ...
• Bob doesn't care
  There's a great line that most movie buffs remember fondly from "The Fugitive" largely because of its unambiguous embrace of total and absolute ...
• Looking at both sides
  Watching that wildcat skirmish develop at Long Harbour this past week, I couldn't help but think about the very subjective and biased perspective ...
• A Royal waste
  It was Mary Walsh and/or Cathy Jones I thought of last weekend as I tortured myself enough during channel changes to catch a minute here, a ...
• Killing off the CBC
  So, do you want to read more enthralling commentary on the deficit and the debt? Want additional insight into "cost mandate analysis," that piece ...
• Never forget
  I guess most would consider it not altogether shocking that the anniversary of Newfoundland losing its independence in a shotgun wedding of ...
• A match made in ...
  Although it's an image that might induce a province-wide upchuck, I do believe Andy Wells, Newfoundland's mouth that roars, is deserving of a big ...
• Gander on my mind
  Although the stop-the-presses exclusive that today's my birt
• A mix of messages
  An offering this Saturday of what some might see as the columnists' saviour in times of journalistic desperation (or intellectual laziness, my ...
• Decorum? Who needs it?
  Even way back when, a mere 40 years ago, a time I first ventured into the House of Assembly press gallery to gaze with a certain amount of ...
• Punishing opposition
  The next time Kathy Dunderdale arranges a photo-op in one of the province's classrooms, one of those cozy scenes where the premier, trying to ...
• Loyola Sullivan: everyman?
  Who'd ever have thought of Loyola Sullivan as just your regular working stiff? Well, I'm willing to believe at this point that Sullivan carries ...
• The secret House of Assembly tapes
  My impeccable sources, Deep Trout River and Harbour Deep Throat, have earned themselves an Atlantic Journalism Award with a joint ...
• Seeing Cleary now
  So what, pray tell, was the enormous mortal sin committed by Ryan Cleary? Well, bless him, Father Newf, for he has sinned: our ...
• Time for a war of words
  Wade Locke's lecture at Memorial University on Muskrat Falls may indeed have contained a misspeak, and his relationship with Nalcor and its ...
• Turkeys and journalists
  So let's talk turkey, as in that public relations exercise by the CBC to collect gobblers and curry favour with its viewers and listeners in ...
• A curmudgeonly Christmas to all
  It was a fella named Glen Kirby, as I recall, who probably made one of the first significant deposits in my Christmas memory bank, an account ...
• Tales from the crypt
  Anyone wandering around a certain cemetery in the west end last Saturday might have wondered about those spooky sounds that seemed to emanate ...
• Lights, cameras, inaction
  It's movie night in Newfoundland, and time to consider what a few famous productions would be like, set here. "House on Haunted Hill" - Six ...
• Words worth hearing
  A few weeks ago, I made a rare visit to a one-time favourite tavern of mine called The Ship Inn, or Dirty Dick’s as it was initially called when ...
• High school confidential: secret memo revealed
  In the aftermath (or afterscience) of revealing what they feel is an enlightened approach to cheaters and other, briefly misguided children of ...