…the Atlantic Lottery Corporation has its eye on the future. This is a full page story about an interview with a member of the staff of The Moncton Times and Transcript. Why? I have no idea. The story says nothing about anything. How could it? The CE0 of the corporation
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The Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec. 10: I see nothing, hear nothing…..
Perhaps the biggest story of the day is that a monkey wearing a diaper got loose at an Ikea store in Toronto. There is no shale gas news (despite numerous reports of serious problems and serious discontent about shale gas in the US), no mention of doctors meeting to demand
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec. 9: faith and foreign affairs….
….like….what the hell… it’s Sunday. The top-of-the-page sermonette for this Sunday turned out to be a pleasant surprise. The first two-thirds of it was well-written, engaging – and made a point that had everything to do with faith without hitting the reader of the head with it. The final third,
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec. 8: A bad day in Ottawa….
The Moncton Times and Transcript seems not to have considered it important enough to mention, but the 15 billion dollar F35 deal for our air force is off. Oh, I meant, of course, the 20 billion dollar deal – which went up to 30 billion, – and was most
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec. 7: Hurray for Alward!
Yessirree. Our premier has been named the second best fiscal manager in Canada by – wait for it – the Fraser Institute. Yes, the Fraser Institute, a propaganda front for big business just loves Alward. The Liberals have been critical. But that’s not fair. What we should be doing is
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Truth as propaganda….
Yes, the truth can be propaganda. In the case of Syria, for example, we have frequently been told of civilians being killed by government troops. But it has been extremely rare to mention such killing by “rebels” – and almost no mention of the “rebel” terrorism carried out against Syrian
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec. 5: Always be suspicious….
At the bottom of A1 of the Moncton Times and Transcript is a column by Brent Mazerolle, the TandT’s chief hatchet man. In just four years, the city’s labour costs have risen by ( hide this from the women and children)———— 3%. Wow! Let’s see, now -3 multiplied by the
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec. 4: where to begin
A reader was kind enough to send me information from city hall concerning Highland Square. (The form reply – and another item – appear at the end of this blog.)The property was referred to as a CN Terminal plaza and centre appraised at some six m…
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec. 3: The Moncton Times and the CBC
CBC Moncton has a news website. Just google to find it. On any day, compare the news it has to that in the The Moncton Times and Transcript. There’s a reason why Google news takes items of Moncton news from the CBC every day – but almost never fr…
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec. 2: Some Sunday thoughts…
On this Tuesday, Dec. 4, the current events group will meet at Moncton Library from 7-8 p.m.This time the topic will be the origins of our modern (mass-circulation) newspaper, and how it has been wide open to corruption and abuse since its origin…
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec. 1: bo-ring…
There are times when even the lies and evasions and banalities of the Moncton Times and Transcript can’t rouse.I suppose that when I was new to the province, and naive, I might have been roused to anger by the obvious collusion of the Irving press and …
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov. 30? Wow…..
The Moncton Times and Transcript finally does it. Both the editorial page and the op ed page are worth reading – for the first time ever.The is a solid editorial on the return of mass transit to Moncton – without the attacks on the drivers that have ma…
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov. 29: Let’s try a big picture…
Most of the news that appears in newspapers is useless. That is particularly true of foreign news. It appears in such isolated snippets that it means nothing. In fact, it is usually (and deliberately) misleading. For example, we are told that reb…
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov. 28: well, not as bad as it could have been…
To understand the first part of the blog, you will need to read the blog for Nov. 27 in which I talked about how I expected the TandT to handle the story of the anti-shale protest at the legislature yesterday.They didn’t go overboard as much as I thoug…
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov. 27: I see in my crystal ball…
Yesterday, I said there would be no Nov. 27 blog because I would be in Fredericton for the protest against shale gas. And I was. But something interesting happened there. I think I know why it happened. And, knowing that, I am going to make a predictio…
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov. 26:z-z-z-z-z-
My last questions to the Ministry of the Environment have not been answered, though they were quite simple. What is the law on reporting contaminated land? What are the terms of its cleanup?It’s pretty clear now that the minister isn’t going to answer….
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov. 25: just a few things….
An opening reminder – There will probably be no blog on Tuesday, Nov. 27 because I shall be attending the big, anti-fracking rally in Fredericton that day – and speaking a few words at it.We meet at the Old Burial Ground in Fredericton at 11 a.m., then…
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov.22: Good for Brent….
It’s top of the op ed page; and it well deserves to be there. It’s a column by Brent Mazerolle – well written (he’s usually a good writer) – but with substance. This is worth reading. It’s about a man who suffered terribly most of this life trying to h…
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov. 22: Just for a change of pace…
… listened to a local, private radio station to learn whether it was any better than the Moncton Times and Transcript. For a fair comparison, I chose a station that advertised itself as talk news radio. It’s owned by Rogers; and I know the news-…
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov. 22: .. let’s talk a bit about…..
….what isn’t in today’s Times and Transcript.About a week ago, the World Bank released a report it had commissioned. to a respected scientific body. The report says we could see disastrous (meaning tens of millions of deaths, enormous storms and stor…
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