Briefing Note

[Professional Blog]

Going beyond the headlines and the soundbites, Briefing Note is all about the trends, tricks and quirks of politics in Newfoundland and Labrador. Political reporter James McLeod provides a weekly wrap-up of the goings on at the House of Assembly, plus a few extra nuggets you won't hear anywhere else.

Blog URL address : http://briefingnote.thetelegram.com

Articles

• Danny Dumaresque has some data.
• A funny thing happened...
• Transparency (iv)
• Lorraine Michael wants equal time
• Transparency (iii)
• Let's play the oil guessing game!
• Our fiscal situation
• Dwight Ball has stuff to say too…
• Kathy Dunderdale is right
• Transparency (ii)
• Transparency
• The Muskrat Debate — in black and white
• The faces of Movember
• Flip-flop and confusion at the Liberal convention
• The pollsters are coming
• Paper scuffle
• Danny Williams at the St. John's Board of Trade
• NDP Odds and Ends
• Off the cuff: Dunderdale speaks to the party
• Let's talk Liberal leadership...
• Procedural gobbledygook: The Muskrat Falls special debate
• What are we really talking about?
• Hot summer, hot numbers
• Is that a bow tie I see...?
• Is that a bow tie I see...?
• Record breaking
• The silent treatment
• Written questions...
• The nastiest, rottenest, most awesome tactic
• Pomp and ceremony
• When no one is watching
• Home for a rest
• Keep talking
• Bear with them, they're still learning...
• Point of Order, Mr. Speaker, the member opposite is being sooky.
• Don’t mess with Eddie Joyce, (and other lessons from Week 1)
• Ready, set … politics!