Cam Spinney 🇨🇦

Dad, husband, accountant (CPA, CA), Bruins fan, Newfoundlander. I love hockey, travel, aviation, music and craft beer. All views are my own.

[Cam Spinney 🇨🇦 @camspinney]

@boates02 The addition of Barry Perry was a huge and unexpected surprise. I don’t think most people in the public understood the deep expertise we had on the last negotiating team with Karl Smith. Having industry heavyweights in the room helps.

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@TimWhelan6 @kristinaennis Believe it or not, buying a private jet is actually the ‘affordable’ part.

Owning and operating it is where it gets really expensive. Over the course of a few years that $21M would have ballooned quickly.

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@kristinaennis Also… was the sponsorship not widely criticized and even lambasted? I remember a great deal of public backlash.

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@kristinaennis Safe to assume you’re joking in your framing… but still…

$170k advertising/sponsorship agreement bears zero similarities to the jet. I’m not defending or even opining on the sponsorship decision.

$170k wouldn’t cover the ownership costs of that jet for a single month.

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@KMacTWN We are the only province where the majority of homes own a snowblower.

Unfortunately, mine just broke and I had to shovel this one.

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@JohnRiche Put another way, NL based company earned 96% of profits from rate payers in New York, Arizona, Michigan, Alberta, BC and other jurisdictions and chooses to remain headquartered in St John’s.

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@JohnRiche Profits from Newfoundland Power make up about 4% of that profit.

They choose to remain headquartered in NL, despite countless reasons not to.

I don’t get how that’s unNewfoundland?

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@NiteFlightJason @TedBlades @VOCMOpenline If CN invests billions to build a new rail line… would you expect other rail companies to just gain automatic, unfettered and free access to that rail line despite CN investing billions? Obviously not. They would negotiate access through a commercial agreement.

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@NiteFlightJason @TedBlades @VOCMOpenline You talk about the grid like it’s some intangible asset… the grid (transmission) is a complex and incredibly expensive network of physical assets that cost money to build.

More than 50% of the cost of the MF project was transmission.

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@bharrishabs @TedBlades @VOCMOpenline If this goes to referendum, it will surely lose. If this MOU dies because of partisan politics, interprovincial grudges and misinformation, this will be as big a mistake as the original CF PPA or MF.

Another 17 years of deficits, ballooning debt, and deep cuts is what we’ll get.

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@bharrishabs @TedBlades @VOCMOpenline All the talk of fair market prices based on Quebec’s replacement cost or cherry picked spot prices in New England, without the context of geography and the cost and complexity of transmission has lead to so much public misunderstanding of the MOU.

[Government of Newfoundland & Labrador @GovNL]

📢 Public Advisory: Evacuation Order Issued by the Town of Paradise for a Portion of the Town of Paradise

The following areas need to evacuate immediately:

ALL properties adjacent to Three Island Pond, including Three Island Pond Road to the intersection of Buckingham Drive, Ellington Close, Angels Road, Hansen Place, Vanellen Place, Dawes Road, Balsamwood Road, Stokes Road and Shalloway Place.

Impacted residents are advised to travel NORTH to Route 60 (Topsail Road), as Peacekeeper’s Way will be CLOSED between Mineral’s Road and the Trans-Canada Highway. Residents that are NOT impacted are requested to avoid the area to minimize traffic congestion.

A reception centre for impacted residents has been established at Admiral’s Academy, 835 Conception Bay Highway (in Kelligrews).

If anyone requires transportation, buses will be available and on stand-by. Search and Rescue and police will be in these areas to assist people who require transportation.

For more information: https://t.co/ZDjStgE03A

#nltraffic #nlwx

For the most up to date information on the wildfires, visit https://t.co/QZUxN5si77

(August 12, 2025, 5:20 p.m.)

[RCMP Newfoundland and Labrador @RCMPNL]

TRAVEL ADVISORY: The Trans-Canada Highway is now closed between the cloverleaf (Pitts Memorial Drive/Outer Ring Road) and Exit 39 (Foxtrap Access Road).

Motorists are asked to avoid the area and delay any non-essential travel on the Trans-Canada Highway. (1/2)

[NTV News @NTVNewsNL]

RCMP say the Trans-Canada Highway is currently closed between the cloverleaf (Pitts Memorial Drive/Outer Ring Road) and Exit 39 (Foxtrap Access Road), as emergency crews respond to a wildfire near Paddy’s Pond.

Motorists are asked to avoid the area and delay any non-essential travel on the Trans-Canada Highway.

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@TedBlades @BarbaraBur74132 @junonewscom https://t.co/pzhphoD671

I heard this interesting piece re-air on CBC a couple months ago. Not a short term solution, but interesting nonetheless.

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@kristinaennis I’ve noticed a lot of ridiculous tinted front windows lately. Obviously illegal and obviously dangerous.

This isn’t Phoenix or Dubai… there is no practical reason for that level of tinting in our climate… let alone it’s illegal. Seems like an easy problem for the RNC to solve.

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@duncandee @wallethub @SpiritAirlines Congrats!

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@Fostus @JohnRiche It was a black F150, looked to be no more than a couple years old.

Oh, I know. Hatred for the Liberals is passed down through generations in Alberta lol. The AB NDP are more closely aligned with the liberals IMO… but they can’t use the L word in Alberta.