…..I’m quite sure that Brunswick News won’t have the story even though it’s now well over a week old. Remember that racist flyer from MP Williamson of St. John about cracking down on First Nations? I posted it, and speculated the federal Conservatives were targeting First Nations to appeal to
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The Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 10:
If you look at the comments below yesterday’s post, you will find that a reader warned me that Colchester County in Nova Scotia plans to dump over a million litres of fracking wastewater, complete with its chemicals, into the sea. So I checked. It’s even worse than I thought. Windsor,
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 9: Part 2
I can’t believe I did anything so stupid as to erase a whole blog just as I was finishing it. And this is the third time it’s happened. April 9: Part 1 is the flyer distributed by MP John Williamson of St. John. It is a bigoted attack on native
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part two will follow. I just messed up by erasing part 2 on the last sentence.
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 8: (Yawn)
The big, front page headline in today’s Moncton Tiresome and Tacky is “Oulton College makes history”. Wow, just like Julius Caesar and Napoleon and George Washington and John A Macdonald and premier Alward. The story is that Oulton is the first private college in New Brunswick to offer a programme in
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 7: Sunday musings….
The member of parliament (Conservative) for St. John, New Brunswick, is fascinating study in how much civilization has progressed in the last century. In the bad, old days, people like him would have been locked in the basement immediately after birth so the neighbours would never see them. Now, we
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 6: ?????????
Early yesterday, the story of the year broke. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has cracked the files of offshore banks which act as tax havens for the very rich and for corporations all over the world who want to hide their money from the taxman. These banks maintain the highest
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 5: Wow!!!
There is a news story in today’s TandT that is worth reading. There is an opinion column that is well worth reading. Most of the paper is, as usual, crap. But, this time there are a couple of items that, ordinarily, the Irving press would refuse to publish. What’s going on? The
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 4: looking for an important story….
….but it wasn’t there. The confiscation of bank accounts at the Bank of Cyprus is developing as a much bigger story than it might seem. So, of course, I checked the Business Page of the Tiresome Times to get the latest scoop. But no luck. The lead business story (a
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 3: the T and T and T and T….
…The Trivial and Tiresome and Times and Transcript. Sorry to be late with this one. I have written it twice, with it disappearing from the screen each time so I have to start again. Fingers crossed. __________________________________________________________________________ The top news story on p. 1 is neither news nor a story.
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 2: Well, I tried….
There is not a damn thing in today’s Times and Transcript that is worth reading. Well, in fairness, NewsToday has a worthwhile story on harrassment and discrimination among prison workers That’s been true for a long time, of course. But it’s getting worse just at a time when Harper has
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 1:April Fool………..
well, I have to assume the TandT staff did go to church for Easter Sunday – and stayed there all day. There is certainly no evidence they worked on today’s newspaper (and Norbert admits he wrote his column some days ago.) The front page headline “Four parties to battle Kent
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: March31: No blog today….
I am invited to a breakfast of chocolate eggs and roast bunny. I can only wish a happy Easter to all of you. graeme
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: March 30: What coincidences!
Page 8. “Mnister extends olive branch”. Sort of. Health Minister Flemming’s olive branch is that he says he is willing to discuss budget cuts with the Medical Sociey. He will meet with them. But he won’t change his mind on anything. Wow! Obviously, Mr Flemming is hazy on the difference
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Narch 29: hypocrisy at work……
Some years ago, in Montreal, there was a radio talk show that specialized in hate-mongering, It was pretty vicious stuff all day every day, including Sunday. However, on Sunday it would also play a jingle every half hour, a jingle sung by a super-smarmy choir. I remember the opening line
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: March 28: I didn’t comment on the budget because…
…1. It was a budget that showed no understanding of what has been learned over the past century about how to deal with a recession.2. It does virtually nothing to make the rich pay their share. Let’s get real. That budget was not prepared by Alward or by the Mr.
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: March 27: Jolly good fellows….
I used to speak some fifty or sixty times a year to various groups, mostly in Montreal. Among them were Rotarians. Dear fellows.There was always manly back-slapping, chaffing, smiles, joy at being together. And there was always constant “taxing” of members for doing things like having a crooked tie or spilling coffee.
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: March 25:The editor and the news.
Newspapers rise and fall on the qualities and abilities of their editors. Editors not only instruct new reporters on the rules of the trade, of reportorial writing (and journalistic ethics), they also choose which stories are important enough to be covered or to be selected from the wire services. and
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: March 25: somtimes, I’m….
….unpardonably slow to connect the dots. The pieces were all there – Irving’s declaration of being in coalition with the government following his great conference on the economic future of NB, the introduction of Sigma Six, the dismay in the civil service…and the almost complete silence of The Moncton Times
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: March 24:Understanding the news without reading it…
Some forty years ago (my, I’m getting old) a very prominent Canadian politician to me he never read the newspapers His friends assured me that was the truth. I still didn’t quite believe it at the time. But I begin to see that it makes sense. Ever since their beginnings, almost
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