http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/obama-uk-eu-trade-1.3550150Obama's talk to Britain yesterday about the importance of Britain staying in the European Union wasn't a chat. It wasn't advice. It wasn't an old friend speaking. It was blunt…
It looked like a normal day as I turned to the Opinion and Commentary sections of the Irving press. The editorial was yet another half-baked one about reviving downtown by…
Canada ranks fourteenth out of sixteen comparable nations for its reduction of greenhouse emissions. The U.S., not suprisingly, is last. The reality is that after all these decades of conferences…
One of the old stunts in a journalist's bag of tricks to get a party leader to criticize his own party. It's so old that even the slowest-witted of politicians…
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kpmg-canada-revenue-agency-receptions-conferences-1.3540285The story above appeared yesterday on CBC news. It has not yet appeared in the Irving press. No story. No commentary by Norbert. (and this goes well beyond l...
Armchair Socialism Won't Fly." Wow!I saw that headline on Norbert Cunningham's column and thought, oh, I can have fun with this. But no such luck.Norbert not only doesn't know what…
Ah, Sunday, a day to sleep in without shame. Then, I went through pile of old papers to find one I had forgotten about - though it's kind of important.A…
For its Saturday edition, the Irving press always has a Faith page. After all, the ownership of the paper is guided by its religious principles. That's why it proudly offers…
The Irving press hasn't said much about The Leap Manifesto by the NDP. We get a never ending series of commentaries by Liberal and Conservative politicians, none of them with…
The top fifty American coporations have 1.3 trillion dollars stored in tax havens. The governments of Canada and New Brunswick, and even the eagle-eyed journalists of Irving press seem not…
This issue of The Saker has a very uncomfortable sense of bias in most of its stories. However, the first story on the site, about the explosion of a Russian…
The Liberal and Conservative parties exist for one purpose - to get into power. Since 1867, both have followed that purpose by chasing for the support of big money. That…
Instead of the Irving press, let's begin with the world press stories that I'm quite sure won't be in the Irving press._________________________________________________________________For those who thought I was exaggerating when I…
I have a friend who is devoutly Christian. As a Christian, he believes in the concept of the "end times" when the world will come to an end, Jesus will…
This may be shorter than usual. Yesterday, at a coffee gathering, a woman asked me what I thought of a column in the day's Irving press. I replied that I…
Here's an opinion on the Panama Papers that I don't agree with. I'm not at all sure it was investigative journalism that revealed this story. And, certainly, investigation has never…
For those who have wondered why so few Americans were listed in the Panama Papers as tax evaders, here's why.http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/06/panama-papers-us-tax-havens-delaware____________________________________________________________...
https://www.icij.org/#_ga=1.162088828.1749684605.1459878751Above is the website of the organization that broke the story of the Panama Papers. It's a branch of the Center for Public Integrity whose home page is below.https://www.publicintegrity.org/I a...
The story below is told largely with its focus on Israel, China and Russia. But it's a story that covers the whole world. Yes, even Canada and, who would guess…
The sermonette on yesterday's Faith page talks about the leading role Christianity has played in bringing social equality to women. I'm suprised that it didn't mention Pope Joan, the woman…
