The dead hand

Where or what is "Newfoundland Labrador Hydro"?

Danny's gone, folks. You can start using conjunctions again.

The Return of the Conjunction

This is interesting.

To some people, anyway.

Well, to one, at least.

In March 2007, the crown corporation which legally exists as Newfoundland and Labrador Housing Corporation, dutifully started referring to itself as "Newfoundland Labrador Housing (Housing)" for some mysterious reason.

In April 2011, it just as abruptly stopped doing so.

The A-word

Boy. Someone really has it in for the most often-used conjunction in the English language.

If this release is anything to go by, Tom Hedderson's department is now "Transportation Works".

He is also the Minister Responsible for something that dutifully and sycophantically re-styled itself "Newfoundland Labrador Housing".

And, after four years of being barraged with The World's Cheesiest Logo, there are many who have come to believe, erroneously, that province No. 10 is actually named "Newfoundland Labrador".

Which would make Tom Hedderson the Newfoundland Labrador Transportation Works Newfoundland Labrador Housing Minister.

Which, as it turns out, is what Brad Giffen of CTV News nearly called him the other day.

Michael Temelini (II)

“If, indeed, the former Deputy Premier, Tom Rideout, did try to squeeze out more money, outside of the normal, transparent, process, then maybe this is a victory for those who are opposed to porkbarrel politics, I mean, we’ve got to get over this idea in Newfoundland Labrador, that just because you occupy a senior position in government that somehow you should have special access to funding for your district to pave roads and so on and so forth.”

The ironies, nested within ironies, of that statement. Where to begin?

Oh – how about here? There are three classes of people who call the province “Newfoundland Labrador”.

1) The misinformed and ignorant
2) The sycopohantic
3) Danny Williams

Michael Temelini is not Danny Williams.