Nov.10: Let’s not waste time on the Irving press today.
There’s no news in Section A. The editorial gushes about our fishery’s future under the Trans-Pacific trade deal, nicely ignoring some realities. 1. There are severe limits to the fishery,…
Graeme Decarie
Nov.9: Year-round reminder of our people who went to war…
….stands in Moncton’s Centennial Park. It’s Sherman tank, an American design, and the common tank of American, British and Canadian troops for most of World War Two. With all that…
Nov. 8: Catching up on the news.
Sometimes, even a good news medium runs a really silly story. This time, it’s today’s CBC. This is about a university prof in the U.S. who says there is always…
Nov. 7: little – again – in the Irving press
There’s an interesting development in the fighting in Syria. Both the U.S. and Russia have assigned fighter jets to the region. And that’s a little odd. Some fighter jets are…
Nov. 6: (almost) the bottom of the bucket…
There really is almost nothing to say about today’s Irving press. Even the letters to the editor were pretty…unpretty. What was worth reading was, at most, the continuing story of…
Nov. 5: Dominic Leblanc named House Leader! says Irving news.
Gee! Who woulda guessed. And what does Dominic Leblanc stand for? Who knows? But this almost certainly will make him the bagman for New Brunswick, the boy who picks up…
Nov. 4:http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/nov/01/election-blow-canada-postmedia-stephen-harper
Now, the above is a story I didn’t see in the Irving press. Actually, it’s many stories in one. As it begins, it’s about how most of the Canadian press…
Nov. 3: Very light on the irving press.
There are just two stories worth reading. On A1, the series on the decline of the salmon fishery continues. (The big headline by the way is that a man who…
Nov. 2: Let’s deal quickly with the Irving press…
It’s really hard to come up with something in a newspaper that says nothing. Today, the big, front page news flash is that a local politician has refused to tell…
Nov.1: Try, try again.
Justin Trudeau has just chatted with Japan’s prime minister Abe. both have agreed that the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership is essential. That’s Justin’s first stamp of approval on a major Harper…
Oct. 31: Damn!!!!
I have just completed four hours of writing a blog, Then, it disappeared just as I tried to send it. I have no idea why. Instead of devoting it to…
The big push is on.
Today’s headline is about the premier of Alberta meeting NB premier Gallant to discuss the delicate issue of a pipeline from Alberta to New Brunswick. It’s “in the best interest…
Oct. 29: So much news it’s too much news.
But the Irving press spares you the pain of too much reading. It’s foreign news isn’t really foreign at all. In fact, I’m not sure there is such a thing…
Oct. 28: Well, well, well, duh….
Often, I wonder why the Irving press bothers to print a paper. The best part is a comic strip on C10, “The Grizzwells”. It’s worth looking also at “Blondie” because,…
Oct. 27: School days….
My first year of teaching was grade 7. As I entered the room on that first day, what I saw was six rows of desks, six perfectly straight rows with…
Oct. 26: A very pleasant surprise.
No, it’s not the headline story “Whoopi Goldberg praises Moncton firefighters after tour bus blaze”. (She thanked the firefighters – which was certainly a nice thing to do. But that’s…
Oct. 25: catch-up day
And the day when I kick myself for not connecting the dots on Trudeau and the election. A friend sent me an article on Trudeau. I thought it excessively cruel…
Oct. 24: Too much news today.
The Irving press is weak on every aspect of journalism I can think of. Local news is almost always trivial. World news scarcely exists – and when it does exist,…
Oct. 23: Raise taxes on the wealthy, say Liberals!
Now, there’s a policy that just grabs you by the heartstrings. Do we have people who are homeless? Hungry? Do we have children who go to school hungry? It’s too…
Oct. 22: just a cranky blogger…
The only Irving news from outside North America is a story that Netanyahu has blamed the Palestinians for the Holocaust. He said a Palestinian, Muslim leader who was a Nazi,…