This morning, I checked the gallery for my paper. None. Okay. So turned to Google to get my computer edition. The date Feb. 11 came up. And a picture of snow, obviously from Saturday. So far so good.But then I noticed that most of the stories were ones I had
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The Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Feb. 9: the Faith page….
This blog is aimed mostly at Christians. That’s okay because, judging from the Moncton Times and Transcript, all people in Moncton are Christians. There are, it seems, no Jews, no Moslems, no Confuscists, no atheists (a form of faith.) Okay. And here’s my position as a start. 1. I do
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Feb. 8:..the dregs of the newspaper world….
My paper was not delivered today – for which I acknowledge the good sense of the paper deliverers. Nothing would make me go out on a day like this to deliver a good newspaper. And this edition of the Moncton Times and Transcript is the most wretched I have seen
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Feb..8: The Moncton Schlock and Sleaze….
Schlock is yiddish, roughly meaning trashy, worthless. Sleaze is, well, you know, like Health Minister Flemming. The front page of today’s paper is a collector’s item for both.Brent Mazerolle, the master of saying nothing, does so for a full page schlock on “Building supplies help drive the economy”. Well, yeah.
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Feb.7: Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today..
…at first, it looks like a burial. Today’s headline, front page, of the Moncton Times and Transcript is “N.B. has huge shale gas potential: Lapierre.” But a substantial part, including several paragraphs at the beginning, has nothing to do with anything Lapierre said. It talks about a damning report on
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Feb. 6: Northrop Frye – A threat to Canadians….
Yes,the dirty truth is out. Northrop Frye, the most distinguished product of Moncton was a common, filthy traitor. That’s why the RCMP shadowed him and investigated him for years. They still have a big file on him. And they got some pretty strong evidence for their suspicions. He was opposed
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Feb. 5: Let’s live a little…
Today’s Moncton Times is the usual crapola. Not only does it not report on an important meeting at Moncton City Hall (concerning Moncton High), it doesn’t even mention there was such a meeting. (Watch for their propaganda spin on it tomorrow). The editorial pitch for the pipeline is standard and,
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Isn’t it wonderful about William and Kate….
.. and how Elizabeth and the Phillip didn’t have to pay a cent of the cost of their wedding. No. the whole thirty-eight million dollars was picked up by the British taxpayers. Isn’t it wonderful she’s pregnant. (although – now I think of it, I’d happily get pregnant for $38
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Feb.3: Yesterday’s issue of the Moncton TandT….
….because,as some of you know, I got steamed up over a story that didn’t appear in the TandT yesterday – and talked just about that. Page 1 is the usual trivia. Brent Mazerolle writes a “special report” about an ice storm we had ten years ago. Hot diggety! Lots of
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Feb. 2: Li-ar. li-ar, pants on fi-re…..
The great issue in Moncton is the building a hundred million dollar ‘events’ centre (hockey rink). This debate has been going on with one, constant theme in The Moncton Times and Tribune. At no point has the tandt said a word of criticism or doubt about the whole thing. It
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Feb. 1:some good news for a start….
Without a doubt, one of the best newspapers in the world and in the English language is the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. It speaks the blunt truth about the Middle East and North Africa in a way that most North American news media wouldn’t dare to even hint. It also
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Jan. 31: Mr. Alward, Mr. Higgs….
….. Please grow up. You are not clowns. You are not even the irrelevant trivialists who make up the editorial staff of the Moncton Times and Transcript. You are leaders in a parliamentary democracy. Do you understand what that means? First, it means that the ones we elect are the
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Jan. 30:winter is cold. pennies are useful…
…That’s it. That’s the op ed page of The Moncton Times and Transcript. You know, the op ed page, where two-fisted, crusading journalists give their fearless opinions of the news behind the news. The Canadian penny is going out of production. But the penny will still be legal tenders for
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Jan.29: "meeting was well-attended…."
What is that supposed to mean? thousands? hundreds? a couple dozen?The number is kind of important. This is in a front page story “Finance minister urged to reverse tax cuts”. Finance Minister Higgs is on a tour based on one of the more farcical elements in his party’s election campaign
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Jan. 26: Big news the TandT missed.
A few nights ago, I suddenly woke at 3 a.m. with a sense of horror. I had forgotten to move my car off the street when I parked it. that’s a serious business in Moncton. Parking on the street in winter is forbidden because it might interfere with snow removal.
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Jan.27: The Ideologue
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is an ideologue. That means he believes that there is just one way to organize a nation’s political and economic life. There is only one way. And it is perfect. It is the truth and the only truth. Does that make ideology sound like religion? That’s
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Jan.26: Lord, what a dried out, diseased bowl of porridge
the Moncton Times and Transcript is.. Page B 1. Finance Minister Higgs will hold a public consultation with the citizens of Moncton. It will concern the budget. That’s in keeping with Mr. Alward’s election plank to listen to the people. Right. As if a meeting with 50 or so Moncton
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Jan. 25: How to lie without actuaally lying ….
…not actually lying… Read the joyous, bubbly, teeny-bopper, wowowow headline at the top of A 1.“Community health centres draw rave reviews”. Gee. That’s pretty impressive, considering that no such centre has even opened yet. That may be why I haven’t noticed excited crowds dancing in the streets. ‘Rave reviews’ gives the impression of
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: The training of Health MInister Fleming…
…. I had a dog like that once – jumped up on people, barked at terrirfied children, stuck his nose iin people’s plates at dinner, left little piles all over the house….But I took him to the SPCA for dog training; and he came out of it a new dog.
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Jan.23: Big headline, front page….
….so we know it can’t possibly be any big deal…. The provincial government paid over a million dollars for four houses. Well, the reasoning sounds sensible. Water control plans carried out by the government have put the houses in severe danger of flooding. So, of course, the government is responsible
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