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Category: Governance
Author: Holly Revollàn-Huelin
Date: September 21, 2025 — 7 min read
This article uncovers how “consultations” in Newfoundland function less as democratic exercises and more as staged performances. Funding streams through ACOA, REDBs, and provincial programs are already aligned with federal agendas, while consultants, dignitaries, and business elites manage the optics. Public surveys and town halls ask not if projects should happen, but how—with dissent delayed or sanitized into minority notes. Petitions stall, reports reframe opposition, and “What We Heard” documents mask predetermined outcomes. The cycle persists because municipalities, underfunded and dependent on external transfers, lack leverage. By exposing this choreography, the piece shows how managed consent substitutes for true debate, leaving communities disempowered under the guise of participation. Read More...
Category: Peer Pressure
Author: Holly Revollàn-Huelin
Date: September 18, 2025 — 7 min read
This article explores how professional status becomes a tool of social control in Newfoundland, where teachers, administrators, and other credentialed actors quietly enforce what can and cannot be said. Rather than overt censorship, it’s posture, tone, and strategic silence that keep dissent contained—until, when that fails, the courtroom is used. The piece also examines the 2025 Education Accord scandal, where fake citations in a government-endorsed roadmap exposed the fragility of credentialed trust. By tracing how truth is filtered through class optics and respectability politics, it reveals the quiet mechanics of soft-authority systems. Read More...
Category: Governance
Author: Holly Revollàn-Huelin
Date: September 4, 2025 — 9 min read
Garden Hill was once promoted as Newfoundland’s next energy frontier — a project that promised jobs, prosperity, and renewal. Instead, it collapsed into rusting tanks and broken promises, leaving behind a scar rather than a legacy. Today, the Environmental Transparency Committee reframes the site as a symbol of heritage and tourism, invoking ancestors and lighthouses to cover decades of failure with the language of pride. This article traces how overlapping interests in Enegi, Investcan, Town of Cape St. George and FFTNL left their mark, how governance capture ensured no accountability, and how even the fence was only repaired once optics demanded it. Garden Hill is not renewal — it is the carousel turning again, with the same interested parties still guiding the ride. Read More...
Category: Governance
Author: Holly Revollàn-Huelin
Date: September 1, 2025 — 6 min read
This article explores how Newfoundland’s weak local governance structure has made it an ideal testing ground for global agendas like the Great Reset and Agenda 2030. Drawing on Van Assche’s “local paradox” concept, it shows how a vacuum of strategic direction enables foreign capital, ESG-driven policies, and top-down transformations to bypass real public accountability. The piece highlights how green colonialism, staged consultation, and technocratic control have redefined development in the province, connecting Newfoundland’s geopolitical vulnerability to broader global patterns of depoliticized governance, simulated consent, and elite-led transitions. Read More...
Category: Peer Pressure
Author: Holly Revollàn-Huelin
Date: September 1, 2025 — 5 min read
This article examines how polarization within Newfoundland’s civic and activist communities often leads to mirrored dysfunction rather than genuine progress. What begins as a split over values or strategy quickly devolves into a pattern where rival factions replicate the same control tactics they claim to oppose. Drawing on personal experience and prior exposés, the piece explores how slander, silence, and strategic erasure are used to protect group image and loyalty — not truth. It highlights how individuals who speak outside the accepted narrative are sidelined or reframed, even when their insights are accurate and well-sourced. In the absence of real accountability, reputation becomes currency, and power flows through personal allegiance rather than principle — leaving the entire province locked in cycles of compliance, division, and missed opportunity. Read More...
Category: Peer Pressure
Author: Holly Revollàn-Huelin
Date: September 1, 2025 — 7 min read
This article explores how Newfoundland mistakes compliance for unity, showing how social rehearsal and enforced consensus keep communities stuck in dysfunctional cycles. From laughter on cue at staged meetings, to Paul Pike directing “acceptable” debate in Facebook groups, to Rae Miller choreographing opposition door-to-door, to Catherine Fenwick’s ideological loyalty tests and the intimidation of Nadine and Duran Felix — the culture rewards conformity and punishes deviation. Even elites like Andrew Parsons, Tony Cornect, and Chief Mi’sel Joe follow the same script, stepping into safe roles that preserve the cycle. The result is a province locked into megaproject failures and consultant schemes, not only by weak governance and opportunistic operators, but by its own rehearsal of safe narratives. Read More...
