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Originally posted by CourtneyGQuinn:
these provinces

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Originally posted by maestro:
I don't know, I sorta like Nwfl...looks like a phonetic spelling of the sound a dog makes in its sleep.

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Originally posted by CourtneyGQuinn:
ahh..ummm...it's Nwf + l for Lab....i'm not sure what the abbrv is

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Originally posted by Raos:
I think the proper abbreviation is Nfld.

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Interestingly, it mentions a lot of the blame must fall on Joey Smallwood: "Pye said Joey Smallwood was dead set against a highway extending towards Quebec and that mindset stuck around with successive governments". That's a direct quote from the article. Another: "Talk of separation in Labrador is linked to issues like inferior roads".

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Originally posted by Boom Boom:
Interestingly, it mentions a lot of the blame must fall on Joey Smallwood: "Pye said Joey Smallwood was dead set against a highway extending towards Quebec and that mindset stuck around with successive governments".

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Some time, I'll dig up my direct quote from Smallwood about "not one red copper" being spent on a highway to link Labrador to horrible, horrible, Quebec.

Unfortunately, the mindset hasn't changed. This guy is now in charge of doling out the red coppers:

http://www.hoa.gov.nl.ca/hoa/business/hansard/44th,%205th/h03-04-10.htm

MR. SULLIVAN: But, the main highway certainly is well along and, hopefully, over the next while we will see some work and a strong inroads made between Cartwright and back to the Lake Melville area. I think it is vital for communication. It is vital to bring the people of Labrador closer to the Island portion of the Province, not only physically, but in all aspects. It is important. We are part of one Province. We want people there to feel a strong part of our Province. I think we have to do things that would bring us closer together, not facilitate the movement of goods and all services through Quebec into our Province. The more we can bring it together, the more positive it is for our future and the future of Labrador; and the needs, too, of Labrador, in particular, because it is a particularly expensive area to visit. It is expensive for people there.

Now, this is a member of the SAME government that just blew a pile of money to study a fixed link between Labrador and Newfoundland, to better connect Newfoundland to the mainland.

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That's NOT the abbreviation for "Newfoundland and Labrador".

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Then what is it? You seem to be good at rudely dismissing others attempts, and it isn't like I'm the only one using that (sorry if it's JUST newfoundland, is there an abbreviation that includes labdrador?)