April 30: It seemed to begin well….
(Oh, Oh, Oh…don’t forget. Tuesday, May 1, current events at the Moncton Library from 7 to 8 P.M. we’ll start with why coroporations love politicians, but hate civil servants. Then,…
Graeme Decarie
April 29: Understanding protests
The university and college student strike, along with its demonstrations and its confrontations with police, has been making news in Canada, across Europe, and even in Asia. But not in…
April 28: The columnists
We can spare time to talk about newspaper columns today because there’s almost nothing in the day’s Moncton Times and Tribune worth reading – except for the columns by Bill…
April 27: The facts of news – and the opinions columns
My apologies for missing yesterday. Sick computer. I’m also not sure whether this is will be in paragraphs. For some reason, my blog site has been wiping out the paragraph…
April 26 mea culpa
I’m having a computer
April 25: Democracy in the dark
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…