In the last provincial election, neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives had anything that could be called a platform. The closest was an Alward statement that he would listen. Oh, and there was a vague suggestion that we have to prepare for globalization. Since no politician seemed to know what
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The Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 24: people are dying..so who cares?
The Moncton Times and Transcript has no follow-up on the Fredericton man from Congo who was on a hunger strike to draw attention to human rights abuse in Congo. When he ended the strike, he was able to induce premier Alward to call PM Harper, and urge on him the
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 22: No news is……
no news. Most small city and regional newspapers have pretty bland news about their own region. The don’t want to offend advertisers (or protential advertisers like be developers). So they play it safe by concentrating on news that won’t offend anybody important – which means anybody who has lots of
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 21: page B 7 – a news story that is a news story…
Adam Huras of the Legislature Bureau is the reporter. First, it’s on shale gas, a topic the Moncton Times should have been reporting on about a thousand times more than it has. Nice to see a reporter take a look at it. Secondly, Huras reports both sides of the story
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 20: May I lick your boots, Mr. Rogers?
The second editorial dumps all over the bus drivers of Moncton who have the nerve to ask, like Oliver Twist, for more. I have never, in the years I have read the Irving press, never, ever seen a comment in favour of any union on any issue. They will kiss
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 19: Today is a big day (for me)….
When I began this blog site some 16 months ago, a dozen viewers was a good day. Now, it reaches 150 to 200 a day. It was a long and slow start; but today, perhaps even as a I write this, it will reach a grand total of 30,000 hits.
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 18: Prime Minister escapes death!!
Just yesterday, the big, foreign news story was that Harper was walking on a beach with his pants rolled up. Today, a nation sighs with relief and church bells are ringing at the news he was not killed in an earthquake in Chile. We know he survived because reporters asked
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April17: The debate that ran off the rails….
It was bound to happen. The letters to the editor section has a letter that not only jumps the rails on the lanugage of signs train, but fizzes off into a swamp. We are told in the letter that the language of signs law is an attack on the freedom
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov. 16: Northern polar lakes are home to……..
….giant monster fish. Yes. That’s a real headline of the lead story of Section C “News Today” in The Moncton Times and Transcript. Imagine, a giant monster. That’s so much more interesting than a midget monster. Turns out that a researcher caught a big trout up north. But then we
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: starting late on a Saturday night….(okay. completed this time.)
There are a couple of stray thoughts that keep coming to mind in recent months. It begins with something I’ve realized for some time, now. There are certain words that have become so terrible to us that they can no longer be used. Well, they can be used when talking
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 14: Those buildings are ugly….
On the front page of the The Moncton Times and Transcript, under the title “It’s time to dream big”, is what looks like an oversized aircraft hangar with what appear to be giant chimneys for what must be massive firelplaces. It has a garish mural stuck up on one of
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 13, 2012: Why, tell me why….
Three days ago, Russia began massing troops on its border with Iran. They’re expecting a western/Israeli attack on Iran this summer. Hint – they aren’t there to help our side. But for three days, The Moncton Times and Transcript has had no room for that story. Nor does it today.
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 12: as anyone could have predicted……
It was a restaurant in Guanzhou, China. I couldn’t speak enough Chinese to order anything. (My Chinese is limited to “Excuse me, foreigh devil.”) The waiter couldn’t speak English. So he brought me sweet and sour pork. (They’ve learned that’s a safe bet with westerners.) I didn’t eat there again.
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Nov. 11; This part is just footnote to the real april 11 blog.
The Moncton Times and Transcript reports that the city has ordered testing of the soil to ensure its safe for a hockey rink. Good idea. The site originally held a railway yard. The TandT mentions the dnager of pollution by diesel leakage. Actually, it goes much further than that. Montreal
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 11: The biggest international story is in the…..
…Sports section. For real. The coach of the Miami Marlins has been suspended for publicly saying nice things about Fidel Castro. Big Brother doesn’t like people who say nice things about Fidel Castro Nothing could better illustrate the collapse of any sort of maturity or free speech in the US.
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 10: The editor: King of the gutter….
The Moncton Times and Transcript editorial today is a rant at unions and the pay scales for municipal workers in Moncton. I shall take that editorial writer seriously – some day – if he ever shows the intelligence, integrity and, dare I say it, balls, to criticize the outrageous incomes
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 10: today’s blog will be a little bit late – probably early evening.
It’s not my fault. It’s somebody else’s. I do not know who. I just know it isn’t me.
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 9: y’ did good, Norbert – almost real good….
You have to read Norbert Cunningham’s column today. It’s a bombshell. He writes about the Aral Sea, once a real, inland sea with its waters supporting a shipping trade, commercial fishing, and supplying water for an immense and rich agricultural region. That was just twenty years ago. Today, what was a seabed is mostly
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 7:…Staring at the pages….wondering….
what can I say?..there is nothing in this paper. The lead story is that municipal labour costs have gone up. But so have revenues and values, so it makes no never mind. Duh – then why is this a news story?Brent Mazerolle reports, for anybody who can’t read the for
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 6: …three letters to the editor….
…three letters to the editor…each disputing furiously with the other – though each is really on a different topic. One is about the democratic nature of a sign law. One is about favoritism shown to francophones. One is about how francophones and anglophones shouldn’t really be words at all. That’s
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