Dec. 15: words, words….
Words don’t just have logical meanings. They can also convey meanings that have nothing to do with any logic. When I was a kid in Montreal, we used to call…
Graeme Decarie
Dec. 14: hang out the flags, serve the drinks….
…this is a proud, proud day for Canada. Under the leadership of Harper, Canada today becomes the first country in the world to pull out of the Kyoto accord to…
Dec. 14: Interesting story in The Guardian..
…for Dec. 14. Too bad it didn’t make the Moncton Times and Transcript. The European Court of Human Rights found Moslem terrorists guilty of holding an American citizen prisoner for…
Dec. 13: how different, how very different from us…
North Korea has launched a rocket carrying a satellite into space. The UN Security Council is furious. Why? The leading members of the UN Security Council all routinely launch satellites…
Dec. 12: My apologies….
As a reader pointed out to me, I missed an important story in yesterday’s Moncton Times and Transcript.So here it is.Briefly, Irving oil wanted (guess what) an increase in petroleum…
Dec. 11:And the biggest story of the day is…
…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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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.…