Oct. 21: sigh.
In the confusion of the past few days, I forgot to mention two, excellent commentaries in the Irving press by Jerrica Naugler (Oct. 19, C3) and Jana Giles (Oct. 20,…
Graeme Decarie
well, we averted disaster – but that’s all….
My computer has been in computer hospital since Sunday. I’m hoping it’s now showing paragraphs and slightly larger print. The Canadian federal election had the second-worst possible result. I’m much…
Sorry about yesterday’s blog. It looked right when I sent it.
At last, I think I understand the limpness of the Faith Page with its sermonettes and dreary list of church activities. It’s not intended to make people think or to…
Oct. 17: Hitler and Mussolini – and us.
First, I have found a computer copy of Conjuring Hitler, the book on how Hitler’s rise to power was engineered by Britain, the U.S. – with a little help from…
Oct. 16: Sh! Don’t think.
This is very late – because my electric power has been off all day. So it will probably be short. Luckily, there is very little to say about the Irving…
Oct. 25: The Irving press hits a new low
Section A news is pure trivia.Section B, Canada&World, hits a new low with almost no news outside North America. Instead, we get stories like the one on B7 about a…
Oct. 14: I will have room at the end to talk about Israel ……
….because almost all of today’s Irving press is trash. The only story worth reading is on A1 “Senior officer tried to hush up visit to Oland death scene, court told”…
Sorry for yesterday.
My apologies for yesterday. Very foolishly, I wrote the thing on my blog site instead of doing it in Word, first. Then, at the end of several hours of writing,…
Oct. 11: First, a few items the Irvinig press missed….
The Irving press has given us virtually no analysis on the federal election. Of course not. They have nobody who’s capable of doing it. All they can do if is…
Oct. 10: ‘…a wide range of worriers and ideologues…
…predicting wrack and ruin for Canada….predictable doomsayers with wildly exaggerated prophecies…” Thus spake Norbert Cunningham in his column. Norbert says that the Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement is the greatest thing since…
Oct. 9: Sometimes, reading the Irving press is really…
…infuriating. On A1, there’s big story about – guess what? – the Oland trial. It seems the attack on Richard Oland was ferocious. Well, yeah, I had figured that since…
Norbert, you should be ashamed…
Norbert Cunningham’s column on the Opinion page of today’s paper wallows in delight, with unending praise for the Tran-Pacific Trade Partnership. And, for a journalist, that’s wrong. It’s not that…
Oct.7: The worst ever…..
It’s bad enough that the newspaper – which is laughingly described as a breakfast newspaper – hasn’t arrived before 11 a.m. for almost a year. It’s even bad enough that…
Oct. 6: Wow! Wow! Wow!
The Trans-Pacific Trade Partnerhip was signed just recently – in fact, not long before today’s paper went to bed. It must be hundreds, perhaps thousands, of pages long. Most people…
Oct. 5: I cannot think of a title for this one.
In a corner in Moncton’s Victoria Park is a monument to the people of this city who have died in our wars. It’s nothing fancy or showy. But its very…
Oct. 4: a pot-pourri
To understand what the fighting in Syria is all about, check the sites below. http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/01/16/the-great-game-and-the-cia-shaped-the-modern-middle-east https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1949_Syrian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2011/0418/Cables-reveal-covert-US-support-for-Syria-s-opposition To see the whole article these came from, go to the site below.…
Oct.3: An apology
Yesterday’s blog was an important one – if depressingly so. But I did something wrong, and couldn’t retrieve it. And I just don’t have the heart to write it all…
Oct. 1: How bigoted are Canadians?
Canada has a long, long tradition of bigotry. Those on the wrong end of it, like the early Irish immigrants, were been denied decent jobs and pushed into slums. Others,…
Sept. 30: connecting the dots.
It started with news story I read about Harper’s decision to build a multimilliondollar monument in Ottawa to victims of communism. It would be aimed, in particular, at Chinese and…
Sept. 29: The big story that isn’t in the Irving press.
Harper has recently taken on a new campaign adviser. He’s worked for Harper before – and the two have much in common. Lynton Crosby is an Australian who has done…