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BOB WAKEHAM: All smiles at the harbour, but could NL be left with nothing after two potential Churchill Falls deals?

Only Fréchette was blunt enough to admit this new deal could be discarded after Quebec's fall election

Only a scattered seagull eyeing food scraps for its unfussy gullet could possibly have had a bigger smile down at the St. John’s Harbour Monday afternoon, Aug. 17, 2026 than the three politicians vying for the most continuous display of their respective set of pearly whites.

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Fortunately, those ritualistic ear-to-ear smiles on the mugs of Premier Tony Wakeham, Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette, and Prime Minister Mark Carney, prompted by their announcement of a new energy agreement described in superlatives that must have worn out the thesaurus handbooks of their speech writers, weren’t altered by any impolite droppings gulls are known to indiscriminately deposit from above.

But, I mean to say, who or what could possibly poop on a parade that had, among many lucrative floats, the “largest clean energy investment in North American history?”

Well. I don’t have the flatulent power of a gull, but, like thousands of my fellow Newfoundlanders and Labradorians who can’t claim expertise in matters of energy, and whose eyes glaze over with mention of kilowatt hours, transmission lines, and........

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