June 11:
Two political science professors, one at Wheelock College in Boston, the other at University of New Brunswick, have a a book on the market. But you won't find in the…
Graeme Decarie
July 9: Call it a bad mood.
The front page, must-read story is that Syrian women will be selling homemade Syrian food at local farmers' markets. I'm glad to hear it. I 'll certainly buy some. But…
July 8: A_A_A_A_no Quebec beer?
Today's front page of the Irving press is gripping. A bold headline drops the bombshell of the day.The provinces are close to an initerprovincial trade deal. But it WON'T include…
July 7: The Newspaper That Should Pay Us to Read It.
Last night, I tried to listen to a Donald Trump speech. I really did. There was no mention of what the national issues are. It was about how he loved…
July 7: Some days are worse than others.
The U.S. is, we are told, the land of the free and the home of the brave. One has to be brave there. U.S. police have killed 538 people so…
July 5: the coming world disorder.
Canada is sending a thousand troops to Latvia. There was no debate in parliament. There was no vote. Now, with Syria, we have two recent occasions in which we have…
July 4: Off to the shore.
Today's format is different because I'm writing it Sunday evening and adding the irving press part early Monday morning. With luck, that will get me to a sunny day at…
July 2: a change of pace.
Wow! A blast from the past. I had forgotten about this site from my TV days until my son sent it to me.https://www.facebook.com/CBCMontreal/videos/vb.128015371297/10153819907566298/?type=2&theater¬if_t=comment_mention¬if_id=1467421678...
June 1: Canada Day does not mean Lying Day
Canada, including New Brunswick, is in the midst of a storm over the building of oil pipelines. One of the disputed ones is proposed to pass through New Brunswick. There's…
June 30: The worst, the very worst, ever.
Thursday is the day for piles of advertising flyers in the paper. I don't understand why - because few people ever read them. Most of them just get tossed out…
June 29: Not a good day.
Perhaps unwisely, I may devote all or most of today's blog to brexit and the European Union.Was this the result of racism? When I ask this, I remember, at age…
June 28: New Brunswick = conformity=one hell of a price.
I begin my day checking out the news on CBC. No, not on television. My days on TV taught me that TV news is overexcited newscasters talking as fast as…
June 27: walking in the dark with irving news
We have recently committed troops to Afghanistan, Syria, and Eastern Europe. In no case has any government sent its mps around to ask us first if we wanted to do…
June 25: Bah! Humbug!
We often use words which, though they have a meaning to us, have no such meaning in reality. The result is that much of our political debate is carried on…
June 24:Brexit – What we don’t know…
We commonly speak of people as being semitic or anti-semitic. And we're usually wrong because semite does not mean Jewish. It refers to people who speak a number of similar…
June 23: Dum-dee-dum, no news today.
This post, sent to me from a reader, is the only one I have read on the European Union that makes sense. It is, like the trade treaties we're signing,…
June 22: irving news is an oxymoron
In the Irving press, first there's section A news. Yawn.The editorial writer repeats much of what Norbert was talking about yesterday, the faults of our education system. And the editor…
June 21: The irving press: The New Brunswick form of opium.
I've been watching the large number of hits I'm getting from the U.S. I warned readers weeks ago that this could be domestic espionage. But I don't think it is.…
June 20: Philanthropy and Tax Avoidance.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-offshore-treaties-barbados-tax-avoidance-1.3641278How is it possible that the irving press missed this story? We have been robbed of uncounted billions of dollars. We have to make up for that every year out…
June 18: the irving press reaches new depths
Clergy could tell us the truth much better than newspapers do. But they don't. I thought of that as I read today's Faith page sermonette. The writer quotes Obama on…