May 23: not a nice day
The big, front-page story in the irving press is that Moncton's mayor wants a solution to the car-booting issue. That's nice, even commendable. But it's scarcely a big story of…
Graeme Decarie
May 21: Well, I never – a rich man who doesn’t pay taxes!
http://www.msn.com/en-ca/video/news/past-returns-prove-trump-has-paid-zero-income-tax-in-previous-years/vi-BBti925?ocid=spartandhpA man has made so much money he can finance his own run for president and have his own private jet. But he didn't ma...
May 20: Slim pickings in the news today
Despite 'tough' government regulations, oil spills on a grand scale are quite common. And, even with a cleanup, the damge from them lasts for years. Amazing how most of our…
May 19: The Death of a News Medium
(I am very late in starting this one because I was feeling unwell, most of the day. But there is no need to send expensive gifts. Large cheques with a…
May 18: Oh, what a tangled web we weave…
Moncton High School, a particularly impressive building of stone, was closed because, it was said, it required repairs that were too expensive to justify the cost. By coincidence, a new…
May 7:whales and us….
Let's start with the column by student editor Jana Giles. She complains our schools have dropped their advanced courses in order to make the schools more inclusive - a buzzword…
May 16, 2016: SPCA Finds Homes for Dogs.
That is the lead story for today's Irving press. Who woulda guessed that's what the SPCA does?And - a vegetarian restaurant is opening in Moncton.And - a soldier at Gagetown…
May 14: Three cheers for Norbert – Hip, hip….
Yes, indeed. At least three big cheers for Norbert.I began reading today's Irving press with the usual sense of despair. The news section (the usual trivia) seemed to confirm it.…
May 13: Christopher Plummer, Oscar Peterson, and me.
This may be a little short because I got bogged down at the library, reading the autobiography of Christopher Plummer. It caught me because Plummer and I were (almost) classmates…
May 12: The Irving Press – Brains in Idle.
When the Panama Papers gave us some insight into the meaning of "tax haven", they revealed the greatest theft in history. And that's only one, small piece of a much…
May 11: a humbling experience…
I've just returned from a visit to Montreal. There, I saw a copy of The Gazette. It was always a stodgy paper with a heavy bias - though the bias…
May 4: Call me forgetful…
As I write this, I am preparing for a very busy week starting in an hour or so. That means this blog is not likely to appear again until May…
May 3: The no news for New Brunswick
The Canada&World section never fails to amaze me. One of the big stories is that an RCMP officer had to shoot a bear because it was coming to toward him.…
May 2: Double-talk in the news.
Elie Wiesel's story of his early childhood in the Buchenwald death camp, of how the people around him, including his own family, were starved, brutalized and murdered is the most…
April 30: Why count killings by U.S. police?
It's not an attack on the U.S. police in particular or on police in general though, sometimes, I think The Guardian leans a bit to placing all the blame on…
April 29: Why are Terrorists Terrorists….?
Donald Trump will tell you it's because they're a lower form of human made evil by their religion and, therefore, not intelligent and peaceful like us Christians. In fact, all…
April 28: Journalism 101
It's a standard practice that the banner headline for Section A of a newspaper deals with the major story of the day. And the major story of today is -…
April 27:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/climate-change-fossil-leap-economy-pipelines-1.3551585This is an interesting opinion piece from CBC news.It caught me eye on several points. One was the unique way of presenting the case. Another was the irony of the…
April 25: Today’s feature – The Pope
I never thought it would come to this. Though born into the United Church of Canada, I was raised by a Scottish mother who, in her turn had been raised…
April 25: A bad day.
A few days ago, the Irving press had a commentary by Gwynne Dyer. It was the most alarming commentary I have ever seen. In it, Dyer says that climate change…