January 6
Premier offers condolences to families of victims of
New Year's Eve avalanche in Kangiqsualujjaq, Quebec
January 7
Intergovernmental Affairs minister comments on funeral
for Quebec avalanche victims
January 11
Premier comments on Innu "shift in strategy"
January 12
Minister discusses toll highways issue with Nova
Scotia MP
NOTE TO EDITORS: News conference, January 13, St.
John's
Subject: Film industry
January 13
Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro Board of Directors
appointed
Premier to address St. John's Rotary, January 14
January 14
Premier pleased with Supreme Court ruling on Term 17
January 15
Framework for Canada-Newfoundland Agreement on
Economic Development and Fisheries Adjustment outlined
Soiree'99 to get $1.5 million for marketing from
federal-provincial agreement
Labrador snowmobile industry initiative receives boost
Minister comments on new air
surveillance contract for Provincial Airlines
January 18
NOTE TO EDITORS: News conference, January 18, St.
John's
January 28
NOTE TO EDITORS: Message from Pope John Paul II
January 29
Premier makes clear province has no objection to
exemption for B&Bs
February 4
Premier comments on social union agreement
February 11
Premier comments on decision by opponents of education
reform to continue court case
February 12
NOTE TO EDITORS: Swearing-in ceremony, February
15, 11 a.m.
Unsuccessful candidates reinstated in public service
February 15
Cabinet sworn in today
NOTE TO EDITORS: Photo opportunity, Cabinet meeting, Corner
Brook, February 16
February 19
Appointment announced of
Executive Director, Investment Prospecting, Corporate Development Group
February 23
Civic Centre Construction Board - Civic Centre
Construction Board provides status report
President of Treasury Board clarifies position on social
workers classification
February 25
Premier congratulates Lee Churchill on performance at
Canada Winter Games
March 1
President of Treasury Board meets with Nurses' Union
President
Premier comments on Bank of Montreal forecast
March 7
Premier offers condolences to family of the late
Honourable William Petten
March 8
NOTE TO EDITORS: News conference, March 8, St. John's
Subject: Details on funding released
37 Canadian Brigade Group, Land Forces Atlantic Area - NOTE TO
EDITORS: Soldiers to practice winter survival skills
House of Assembly to open March 16
March 10
Minister addresses federal decision to prevent future
dumping by steel producers
March 11
St. John's one of most cost-effective cities for
business
March 16
Throne Speech
Province, community to work together to promote military
training in Labrador
March 17
Acting Minister of Works, Services and Transportation appointed
March 18
Premier supports Innu bid
for status under Indian Act
March 22
NOTE TO EDITORS: Intergovernmental Affairs Minister
attending meeting in Regina
Premier expresses qualified support for merger of telephone companies
Strategic Social Plan
Improved Accountability Framework for Boards and Agencies
March 23
Release of publication on violence
Eleven provincial companies to
participate in Team Atlantic Mission to New England
March 24
NOTE TO EDITORS: News conference, March 24, St. John's
Subject: Nurses' strike
March 26
Ministerial Statement - Two collective agreements
reached
March 30
Ministerial Statement - Back to Work Legislation
March 31
Ministerial Statement - 50th Anniversary of
Confederation with Canada
NOTE TO EDITORS: Premier Tobin and Premier Bouchard available
to meet media, March 31
April 1
NOTE TO EDITORS: Premier and Prime Minister available
for photo opportunity, April 1, St. John's
April 7
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Insurance Legislation Harmonization Project - Phase II Report
April 8
Contract awarded to Women in Resource
Development Committee
Acting premier comments on Saskatchewan legislating nurses back
to work
April 12
Acting premier comments on private prosecution arising
from dispute regarding gardening position at Government House
Premier addresses group at Harvard University
Premier addresses trade delegation in Boston
April 13
Former Minister of Tourism, Culture and Recreation
comments on Cabot 500 court proceedings
NOTE TO EDITORS: Media opportunities during visit of Chinese
Premier, April 14 and 15
April 16
Business mission to Ireland, April 16-23
Treasury Board and NewTel Enterprises announce new industrial
benefits commitments
April 20
Premier announces senior appointments
April 21
Minister announces tentative agreement
Business links with Ireland pay dividends
April 23
Selection of initial region in which to implement the
Strategic Social Plan
NOTE TO EDITORS: News conference, April 26, St. John's
and Mary's Harbour, Labrador Subject: Trans Labrador Highway
April 26
Red Bay to Cartwright Highway announced
April 27
NOTE TO EDITORS: Re-appointment to Cabinet of Beaton
Tulk, April 27, St. John's
Beaton Tulk reappointed to Cabinet
April 28
Ministerial Statement - Reappointment to Cabinet of
Beaton Tulk
Ministerial Statement - Wallace Pike's passing
April 29
NOTE TO EDITORS: Photo opportunity, April 29
Ministerial Statement - Name change of province
Ministerial Statement - Progress of current round of collective
bargaining
April 30
Premier leading delegation to Offshore Technology
Conference, May 3-6, Houston
May 4
Ministerial Statement - Strategic Social Plan
Funding available for Strategic Social Plan demonstration
projects
May 6
Premier announces funding
for family resource centre
Provincial ministers in Happy Valley-Goose Bay to meet with
Minister of National Defence
May 7
NOTE TO EDITORS: News conference, May 10
Subject: Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement in Principle
May 10
Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement in Principle initialed
Ministerial Statement - Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement in
Principle
May 11
NOTE TO EDITORS: Media briefing, May 12, St. John's
Subject: Civic Centre
May 12
Civic Centre Construction Board
gives progress report
Ministerial Statement - Status of Friede Goldman Newfoundland's
operations at Marystown
May 14
Premier welcomes Parliament's approval of legislation to
protect straddling stocks
Provincial ministers pursue
defence opportunities with Minister of National Defence
May 19
Ministerial Statement - Public information
program regarding Aboriginal land claims
May 21
Economic indicators show strong growth
May 25
Ministerial Statement - Kosovo refugees
June
June 1
Provincial ministers in Happy Valley-Goose Bay to meet
with Italian defence officials
NOTE TO EDITORS: Premier available to meet with media, June 1,
St. John's
June 3
Italian airforce to
train in Happy Valley-Goose Bay
June 4
Minister comments on decision of Canadian Transportation Agency
on Term 32(2)
June 8
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in Ottawa
June 9
Executive appointments announced
June 17
NOTE TO EDITORS: Signing of agreements for Career Development
Centre for People with Disabilities
Federal/Provincial funding announced for Career Development
Centre
June 18
NOTE TO EDITORS: Photo opportunity
Province will receive increased benefits from Upper Churchill
power
NOTE TO EDITORS: News conference Subject: Canada Day
Celebrations on Confederation Hill
Steering Committee established to implement Strategic Social
Plan in Central Region
June 22
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister welcomes Kosovar
refugees to St. John's
Canada Day celebrations to be held on Confederation Hill
June 29
NOTE TO EDITORS: Premier in Central to survey forest
fire site and meet affected residents, June 29
June 30
NOTE TO EDITORS: Canada Celebrations at Confederation
Hill, July 1
July 9
Focus on women's economic status
at annual meeting of Ministers Responsible for the Status of Women
July 14
Premier comments on Inco announcement of new exploration
program for Voisey's Bay property
July 15
NOTE TO EDITORS: Cabinet to meet in St. Anthony, July
19 and 20, and in Battle Harbour, Labrador, July 21
SSP Steering Committee to hire planner/facilitator
July 16
NOTE TO EDITORS: Premier to address Canadian Society
of Association Executives, July 18
July 19
Government commits funds to repair Roddickton Regional
Health Care Centre
NOTE TO EDITORS: Premier and Cabinet available to
the media, July 20, St. Anthony
July 20
Premier and Cabinet available to
media, July 20, St. Anthony Subject: Placement of St. John's Youth Centre and to
announce Environmental Community Projects Program
NOTE TO EDITORS: Announcement concerning Labrador
fisheries and addition to Trans Labrador Transportation Initiative, July 21, St. Anthony
July 21
Access road to St. Lewis to be constructed
July 23
Strategic Social Plan demonstration projects approved
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister hopeful labour dispute will
be settled
July 26
Minister responds to concerns about Smallwood
gravesite
Premier comments on LIA vote in favour of land claims Agreement
in Principle
July 27
Civic Centre Construction Board - Construction tender awarded for Civic Centre
Minister to attend Change of Command Ceremonies in
Gander and Goose Bay
August 3
Minister to attend Conference of Southeastern
Massachusetts-Atlantic Canada Association
August 6
SSP Central Region Steering Committee comments on
progress
Minister attending Council of State Governments Conference in
Burlington, Vermont
Premier outlines priorities for 1999 Premiers' Conference
Premier welcomes ratification of UN Fisheries Agreement
August 9
Atlantic premiers and northern leaders set out common
priorities for 40th Annual Premiers' Conference
August 10
Premier announces senior appointments
August 11
Premiers Tobin and
Bouchard provide update on Churchill River Power Project
August 13
NOTE TO EDITORS: News conference, August 16, St.
John's
NOTE TO EDITORS: News conference, August 16, St. Anthony
Subject: Major infrastructure investment
August 16
Economic Development Component of Fisheries Adjustment
and Restructuring Initiative signed
Funding for St. Anthony Harbour Development announced
August 17
NOTE TO EDITORS: News conference, August 18, St.
John's Subject: Province's tax review process
NOTE TO EDITORS: Premier to meet with leader of Progressive
Conservative Party, August 18
August 18
Tax regime consultations announced
August 19
Premier responds to Fraser Institute survey
August 25
Diplomatic Forum to be held in province
Minister welcomes Parliamentary Delegation from Denmark and
Greenland
NOTE TO EDITORS: News conference, August 26, St. John's
Subject: Demonstration projects funded under Strategic Social Plan
August 26
Strategic Social Plan demonstration projects
August 27
NOTE TO EDITORS: News conference, August 30, New
Harbour, Subject: Funding announcement for new fisheries diversification initiative
August 30
$10-million announced for fisheries diversification
September 3
Minister to represent province at Francophone Summit
September 8
Agreement signed with Italian Air Force
September 9
Premier Tobin leading delegation on Team Canada 1999 Mission
September 10
Province welcomes Coat-of-Arms gift
September 13
Minister proclaims National Payroll Week
September 14
Civic Centre Construction Board - Contract awarded
September 16
Provincial company signs
MOU during Team Canada
September 17
Funding for The Straits and White Bay North
September 20
Executive director hired for Central Region Steering
Committee for province's Strategic Social Plan
September 21
Province welcomes federal government's commitment to
seek an amendment to U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act
September 22
NOTE TO EDITORS: Premier to view seal skin coats
for shipment to Russia, Vogue Furriers, St. John's
New England Governors and Eastern
Canadian Premiers - 24th Annual Conference, Rockport, ME Oct. 3-5
September 24
Enterprise Ireland - Irish business and trade
mission
Irish business delegation to visit province, September 25-29
NOTE TO EDITORS: News conference, September 27, St.
John's, Subject: Economic renewal process
September 27
Premier announces consultation on jobs and growth
September 30
NOTE TO EDITORS: News conference, Subject:
Pilot project for fourth year bachelor of nursing students
October 4
Premier to focus on trade and energy at Conference of
New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers
Joint statement from Atlantic Premiers
October 7
Out-migration slowing
October 8
Resolutions issued at the New England Governors and Eastern
Canadian Premiers Annual conference held October 3 - 5 in Rockport, Maine.
October 13
NOTE TO EDITORS: Premier to meet today with president of
Halliburton Company
Funding awarded for demonstration projects
October 14
Social development groups encouraged to participate in Jobs and
Growth Strategy
October 15
Premier officially opens Lakeside Academy in Buchans
October 21
NOTE TO EDITORS: Photo opportunity with John Kenneth Galbraith,
today, Premiers Office
October 25
SSP steering committee participates in workshop
October 27
NOTE TO EDITORS: Premier available for media, 1 p.m.
today
November 1
Premier participates in Fly the Flag of Remembrance Ceremony
November 2
Deadline approaching for Millennium Partnership Funding
NOTE TO EDITORS: Proclamation signing, November 3,
Premier's Office, Subject: Annual
Jeans Day for Janeway Children's Hospital Foundation
November 3
NOTE TO EDITORS - Premier to make Trans Labrador Highway
announcement
November 4
NOTE TO EDITORS: News conference, November 5, St. John's,
Subject: Premier's Advisory Council on the Economy and Technology to release report on
provincial tax review
November 5
1999 Atlantic Canada Diplomatic Forum
Advisory Council releases report on tax review
Premier congratulates council on tax policy report
NOTE TO EDITORS: Premier available to media today, November
5
NOTE TO EDITORS: Premier to meet with Premiers John Hamm
and Bernard Lord, November 6, and will be available to media, 12 noon, Marine Institute
November 9
NOTE TO EDITORS: Premier available to media,
today
Meetings taking place between Government and NAPE
Premier calls on Ottawa to grant
First Nations equivalency to Labrador Innu
November 10
Premier announces chair for Council on Social
Development
November 12
House of Assembly to resume public business
November 15
NOTE TO EDITORS: News conference, November 16, Subject: Income tax reform measures
November 16
Multi-year tax reductions announced
November 18
NOTE TO EDITORS: News conference, November 18, Subject: Proposed legislation banning bulk water removal
from province
November 19
Regional initiatives through EDC invest over $7 million in
economy
November 22
Premier's speaking points to Canadian Council on Public-Private
Partnerships, Toronto
November 23
NOTE TO EDITORS: Premier, federal minister, President of Innu
Nation, available for photo opportunity, November 24, St. John's
November 24
Province, federal government, Innu Nation outline interim steps
to address issues confronting Innu communities
November 29
NOTE TO EDITORS: News conference, November 29, Subject: Strategic Social Plan
Minister Bettney awards funding for 20 projects
under the SSP
Ministerial Statement - Funding for Strategic Social Plan
December 1
Ministerial Statement - Government's state of readiness
for Year 2000 issue
December 2
Minister comments on Canada Post's recent increase in
parcel post rates
Premier and minister to meet with Inco
December 6
Ministerial Statement - Montreal Massacre and violence against women
Ministerial Statement - Legal name change of Newfoundland
December 9
Ministerial Statement - Opening hours for bars for
New Year's Eve
December 10
NOTE TO EDITORS: Premier Tobin to meet with Quebec Premier Bouchard, today
Ministerial Statement - Nurse's in Labrador
December 13
Ministerial Statement - New facility to house three
heritage institutions
NOTE TO EDITORS: News conference, December
14, Corner Brook, Subject: Enhanced cultural and educational infrastructure
December 14
Province announces exhibition centre, new student
residences for Sir Wilfred Grenfell College
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister meets with
representatives of North Atlantic communities
December 20
Request for Proposals for provision of banking services
to government
NOTE TO EDITORS: Photo opportunity, December 21
December 21
NOTE TO EDITORS: Change in time of photo
opportunity
Minister participates in SSP's central region meeting
Premier accepts Silver Piggy Bank Award
December 29
Unveiling of commemorative plaques
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