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Edward Hollett

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Politics, Public Policy, Public Relations, History From the Far East of the Western Hemisphere edhollett.substack.com

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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Like Pete Hegseth, JD Vance is a small man.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
I know we’re resigned after so many years of it but for real, social media giving high-ranking elected government officials the ability to harass individual private citizens by name for an audience of millions as a recreational pastime is actually Caligula shit if you think about it
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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Fear and loafing on the chem trails
We were somewhere around Butterpot on the edge of reality...
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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Andy Furey's Fake News
Churchill deal in political trouble, NL Libs worried about next election
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Prime Minister Carney. Now what? open.substack.com/pub/edhollet...
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Prime Minister Carney. Now what?
How it started. How it's going.
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
open.substack.com/pub/edhollet... How to understand Trump. Plus cows.
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From Kyiv to Kilbride
Ukraine, Trump, and Cows
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This is a time for Canadian leaders, but they reach for the door. open.substack.com/pub/edhollet...
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This is a time for leaders.
The threats are real. Our politicians are not.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
JD Vance’s cousin Nate Vance on why the Vice President is misguided on Russia: I personally witnessed them shooting their own troops… it’s has happened quite a bit. They are not our allies and they never will be.
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
open.substack.com/pub/edhollet... The lame duck is on a swan. The kids are home alone, looking for a new Daddy and running wild.
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Home Alone
Furey fiddles while fish minister Byrnes
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Should Canadians disown JD Roberts?
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Which is what he is.
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
If you heard Andrew Furey talking about being strategic, here's what means: The Illusion of Meaningful Action open.substack.com/pub/edhollet...
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The Illusion of Meaningful Action
"It'll be years before anyone knows it's wrong."
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
open.substack.com/pub/edhollet... John Hogan shat the bed before he officially said he's a candidate to be Premier. But everyone knows he's Furey 2, the Newfie Liberals next Carney. Not a good start.
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Privilege and Entitlement
Liberals caught lying by omission.
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
open.substack.com/pub/edhollet... To follow the fame, you have to watch the whole board.
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Home and Away
Is anything going where you thought it would?
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Incredible misunderstanding by Joshi of plain English.
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Misreading English is obviously easy.
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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Choices
We can only avoid them for so long
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Politics is always fun, even when it seems like it isn;t. Last week there was lots of fun in NL politics. And we can also give you a better idea of who is likely to the 40th Prime Minister of NL. open.substack.com/pub/edhollet...
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The Humours of Politics
Plus the choices for Prime Minister 40
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
"For the federal Liberals and for political observers nationally, Andrew Furey’s quick and troubled tenure as Premier and his sudden run for the door are a warning." open.substack.com/pub/edhollet...
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A Typically Furey-ous Exit
Furey, the prototype Carney, leaves his Team in a jam
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Land that was worth $71,000 an acre in 2025 dollars just got handed to a politically-connected company for a mere $5,500 an acre. And the government Team Furey is in another patronage scandal only four months after the last one and with an election looming. open.substack.com/pub/edhollet...
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Andrew's Kids
Team Furey's latest scandal
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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Erratic Chaos
Sovereignty, history, and going in circles
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
open.substack.com/pub/edhollet... We need more free trade.
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Trump, Tariffs, Twillicks, and Twaddle
For your consideration
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
open.substack.com/pub/edhollet... We are under attack by the Americans but locally brewed beer owned by multinationals will be safe from competition. The rhetoric and the puny, parochial protectionism do not line up .
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Best in Show
There is more to us than jam-jams and overpriced milk.
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The Hundred Years' War between Newfoundland and Quebec open.substack.com/pub/hatchetm...
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The Hundred Years' War between Newfoundland and Quebec
A new Churchill Falls deal again puts Confederation to the test
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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Not-Responsible Government
Will voters pick change or more of the same?
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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BondCast S5 E6 - The Trump Thing
Just the facts
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
open.substack.com/pub/edhollet... Andrew Furey is rational. So is Donald Trump. Donald Trump is driving fundamental change. Andrew Furey so isn’t. That is our existential problem in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Welcome to the Revolution
Dealing with Trump's tariffs. or not.
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
open.substack.com/pub/edhollet... A decade ago, Roger Grimes wondered what had happened in the province he'd led 15 years earlier.
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From a decade of prosperity to $2 billion deficits: What happened?
by Roger Grimes
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
A university with no thinking behind it. What a concept. open.substack.com/pub/edhollet...
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The Little Head and Thinking
The Ode, the President, and GCU
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
A junket to Washington, some old Muskrateers love up another fiasco, and Newt Gingrich. open.substack.com/pub/edhollet...
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The Squid Game, Newfie edition
Andy, Gemma, Dwight, Yvonne, and Newt
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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How 2024 is 1969
Guest analysis and commentary by Antonym Serezhny
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Gerard Farrell @gerardfarrell.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Here's a read:
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Results of a mixed-methods study on barriers to physician recruitment in Newfoundland and Labrador | Request PDF
Request PDF | Results of a mixed-methods study on barriers to physician recruitment in Newfoundland and Labrador | Background: Like many rural and remote parts of Canada, the province of Newfoundland ...
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Not just MUN grads that don't stick around. And the problem is bigger than just the homing pigeons not homing.
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
On *both* sides of the Canada-USA border.
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Jibber-Jabberwocky Politicians in Newfoundland and Labrador are giving away a bird in the hand at Churchill Falls for the hope of two in the bush. Well, the ignored the Americans, who want a new trade deal that could open up massive new benefits for NL. open.substack.com/pub/edhollet...
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Jibber-Jabberwocky Politicians
We are already the 51st State of Confusion
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Why are ultra-wealthy people who feel uneasy about the security of their riches so often driven to support authoritarian parties that wield xenophobia and cultural reaction against those who defend the integrity of the state against the ultra-wealthy? Such a mystery.
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The Power of Deception. Change the name but the rest stays the same. open.substack.com/pub/edhollet...
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The Power of Deception
Uncommunication and the NewOld NALCOR
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
As the late Christopher Hitchens would have said, "At least it's a start." Badda-boom. @dkthomp.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Well done, teachers.
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Since GNL immigration Minister Sarah Stoodley is upset again, look again at the real impact of federal caps on immigrant labour. open.substack.com/pub/edhollet...
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Working Drafts
Immigration "fight" just another brain fart
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
All the unanswered questions...
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Three new aspects of the continued 1969 power contract between NL Hydro and Hydro-Quebec. It just keeps spouting problems. open.substack.com/pub/edhollet...
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Shadow of the Vampire
Three Big Details of the revamped 1969 deal to curl your hair
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
The Renewed 1969 - Strategic Context Background to this deal. Wednesday... a closer look at the deal itself in light of new information that came to light last week. open.substack.com/pub/edhollet...
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The Renewed 1969 - Strategic Context
Political, Economic, Social, Governmental
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Jean-François Morin @j-fmorin.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
ICYMI: www.lapresse.ca/affaires/chr...
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Entente Québec – Terre-Neuve sur l'électricité | Une copie du controversé contrat de 1969
Je dois peser mes mots, sachant l’hypersensibilité des Terre-Neuviens sur la question. Mais tout compte fait, l’entente Québec–Terre-Neuve ressemble drôlement au controversé contrat de 1969, du moins ...
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The debate about Churchill Falls brings up some bad memories. open.substack.com/pub/edhollet...
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The Ghosts of Shag-Ups Past
Plus bonus audio track
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
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Analyst Questions Newfoundland-Quebec Hydro Agreement ‘Debate’
A political analyst is unsure whether the current debate in the House of Assembly will shed further light on t...
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Churchill Falls, Again, but Worse open.substack.com/pub/edhollet...
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Churchill Falls, Again, but Worse
Celebritocracy jumps own shark in dismal reboot of failed reboot
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Edward Hollett @edwardhollett.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Bluesky has as much disinformation (deliberately false info) as anywhere else. Here’s a good example
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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
A number of Oscar-worthy movies were released this year, but only ONE features Amy Adams singing “Dare to Be Stupid”! Nightbitch is now streaming on Hulu.
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