May 14: Big flash!
Tomorrow, May 15, is registration day for “Lies our history teachers told us”, a course for seniors here in Moncton. Registration is noon to two or so at “Rose Hall”…
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It’s an article by Paul Bennett of the coalition to save our rural schools. Paul, though more conservative than I think respectable people should be, has spent his life in…
April 12: This is not a sermon…
……this is a about the disaster that we call organized religion. And that ain’t no sermon. Nor do I care about the hocus pocus of The Bible – about whether…
April 11: up your daffodil
The front page has a big photo of preparations for the daffodil ball, when rich husbands buy expensive gowns for their rich wives, and pay for an expensive meal –…
April 10:Liberals ask departments to show how they would cut from budgets.
That’s the front page headline in the Times and Transcript. Think about that.Each department has to cut 5 to 10% from its budget. Think about that. Surely the purpose of…
April 9: ‘Impact’ is not a verb, dammit.
“Game merger could impact Moncton”. That’s the banner headline on the front page of today’s TandT. The correct word is affect as in game merger could affect Moncton. This misuse…
It’s official…
…the US is no longer a democracy. Big business, especially the banks, are in control of social policy, foreign policy, everything. It’s been that way, except for blips almost since…
April 7: A shameful waste of good paper….
The front page headline is okay. It’s an important story on a coalition of rural New Brunswickers that is trying save rural schools. It’s nice to see New Brunswickers getting…
maybe it’s just me….
I found today’s paper profoundly disturbing. It began with a picture on B3. It’s on the centre right of the page. It’s a photo of a man standing in a…
April 4: Wow! The News YOU Need to Know.
Headline. Page 1. “Stained glass craft survives”. Gee! I never knew that. I mean, I’ve seen stained on even new churches and new houses. But I always thought angels it…
April 5: It’s a sad day of great memories….
Elmer Lach died yesterday at 97. Of course, readers of this blog in Russia and Germany and Ukraine and France will never have heard of him – and generations of…
April 3: A story that isn’t in the Irvng press..
The story below is not by me. It’s a copy of an e mail I received. And it comes before the blog because my computer says it does. After losing…
April 2: A must-see in today’s Times and Transcript….
…right in the middle of page A1. It’s a photo of Roland Gaudet of the Moncton Model Railroad Society. Not only does he do impressive modelling but, just looking at…
April 1: Justin Trudeau is Harper’s secret love-child!
Well, it IS April Fools’ Day. Actually, Justin is pretty drab compared to either Stephen or Pierre. Unlike Pierre, he has no intellect to speak of. Unlike Stephen, he’s not…
March 31: Norbert Cunningham’s little thinking cap….
…put it on Norbert. In his column for March 30, Norbert writes (of the Atcon scandal in which the province gave away $70 million to a company against the advice…
March 30: Values
Beware of politicians who talk of defending our “values” and our “culture”. The words sound good. But nobody knows what they mean. The Parti Quebecois fought, according to its statements,…
March 29: Just a short one…
First, there’s very good news from Montreal. Some European-based groups were planning to march through a largely Muslim district of the city with a message of bigotry and hatred, making…
March 28: What a boring paper!
It’s not just that so much of it is either trivial or lying. It actually makes even highly emotional events cold and lifeless. The Irving press, for example, was able…
March 27: The University Crisis
I’ll start with something that won’t make the Irving press because it’s not about stores closing or stores opening, or who got charged with spitting on the sidewalk. In fact,…
March 26: Damn!
A reader pointed out I made a mistake in my blog of March 25. I said the demonstration at MP Goguen’s office would be on April 31. I should have…