August 16: The family tree of Naziism
This is a topic easily misunderstood because we are taught to misunderstand it. So let’s start gently… I have spent much of my life learning how to hate. I was…
Graeme Decarie
August 15: I’m glad I read section A….
Otherwise, I would never know that there’s a man accused of drug smuggling who doesn’t have a lawyer. And I would never experience the warm symbolism of the colour photo…
August 14: Even as corporate profits reach their highest points in history…..
…some 27% (at least) of Americans live in poverty. And they have few social services to make it easier to survive. If you find those figures hard to believe, take…
August 13: For Moncton, the city in trauma….
Check out the last page of ‘This Week” section in today’s Irving pablum. A year ago, we read of Moncton in trauma as three of our police officers were killed…
August 12: I may add a supplement to this one…
The problem is that it’s hard to write every day about a newspaper that is trivial and almost empty of either thought or information. So I might add a follow…
August 11: Blah!
The Irving press has actually become worse in the ten or so years I’ve lived here. But I have never been able to determine the cause. Is it a deliberate…
August 10: A day to remember.
Certainly, I shall never forget it. And it often comes to mind as I write these blogs. It was a day in October of 1962. I was a teacher at…
August 9: Let’s start with the good news.
In Saturday’s issue of the Moncton Times and Transcript, the comments were very, very good. For the first time in my experience, they were all, real commentaries. Norbert Cunningham has…
August 6: I thought this might be useful to show what a real newspaper looks like…
Haaretz pays no attention to the dictates of government or big business. Unlike the Irving press, it treats news with honesty and intelligence. Much of what is below is important…
August 5: The news in brief….
….…the American Empire is falling. Its governments, prodded by the billionaires who really operate them, have all but drowned in a series of unwinnable wars in order to maintain their…
August 4: Reading ‘alternate’ news media.
The Irving press is not an all unusual in our news world. It lies, it propagandizes, and it’s so obvious you wonder how they get away with it. “ISIS cuts…
August 3: http://www.canadianprogressiveworld.com/2015/07/30/wikileaks-reveals-cbc-and-canada-post-may-be-sold-under-tpp-agreement/
The post in my title is a about a letter obtained by WikiLeaks. It shows that Harper is preparing to sell Canada Post and CBC to private buyers – something…
August 2: Part II
Sorry, part one stopped abruptly before I got to my main topic. I couldn’t fix it. So I had to find a child who could. I was talking about the…
August 2: Sunday odds and ends.
Yesterday, I forget to mention the Faith Page of the Irving Press – always inspiring and uplifting page. I was always look forward to the sermonette on this page as…
August 1: My apologies….
I said yesterday that today I would write about the chances of peaceful change in Canada and other parts of the world. But yesterday, I thought, was Saturday. It wasn’t.…
July 31: The good part is….
…it doesn’t take long read a newspaper of the Irving press. The headline this time is, though, a real one. “Moncton ExxonMobil jobs at risk” And they are. ExxonMobil is…
July 30: The children? Who cares?
It’s embarrassing to see the front page headline on the Times and Transcript. It seems there’s a huge fight over whether children have the right to travel on unilinigual school…
July 29: Well. a front page headline that is important..
Most lobster fishermen in Prince Edward Island want to continue fishing for small lobster because the small ones attract the Asian market. But one fishing harbour has joined New Brunswick…
July 28: Communications and destruction.
The history of the last 500 years have been largely about the history of communications. The European sailing ship was a means of communication that made it possible for Europeans…
July 27: Makes ya think, don’t it?
How is it possible to fill so many pages with print – and still say nothing? The only item worth reading in Section A is on page 5. A child…