March 25: honour and responsibility.
I have a message from a friend in Quebec. He said he was pleased to read in his newspaper that Irving Ltd. has done the honourable and responsible thing in…
Graeme Decarie
March 24: Stop the presses!
Page A1. Banner Headline. A land purchase has been approved so Sobeys can build a new store in Dieppe. Be still, my heart. Actually, there is an important story on…
A change of pace….
This is about politics – but equally about religion, Christianity it particular. And I’m sure it will please neither politicians nor Christians. It begins with a very short story to…
March 22: Just a short one today….
..and scattered in topics. I forgot to mention the Faith Page sermonette in Saturday’s paper. It was the usual holy wimp stuff, this time assuring us that St. Patrick was…
March 21: Something your will not see in the Irving papers…..
,,,And maybe not here, either. I am late because my computer is acting strangely. I have, for hours, been attempting to send a book review to you. It’s called Irving…
March 20: The story of the day
But you won’t see it in the Irving press. I’m quite sure of that even though my breakfast paper has not yet arrived. (It’s noon.) Before Bush and Blair went…
March 19: More of the same…
Half of the front page is taken up with telling us our children have missed 13 days as snow days. Just that story goes on to the last page, enough…
march 18: 3:30 p.m.. My Newpaper is now almost twelve hours late.
I can’t wait to see Norbert’s next column on how private business is so much more efficient than government. No mind. I have lots of topics waiting for just such…
March 17: First go to…..
news.nationalpost.com/2015/03/17/tory-mp-larry -miller-on-women-wearing-nigab-at-citizenship-ceremonies-stay-the-hell-where-you-came-from. Don’t read the story. Just look at the big, full colour photo of the man. He looks like a smirking, self-righteous, self-adoring porker who is a little too…
March 16: well,…..
……I have learned that my Monday, March 16 newspaper will not be delivered in time for breakfast – or even for lunch. Instead, it will be delivered on Tuesday, March…
March 14: Damn! Damn! Damn!
I had almost finished the blog when, somehow, I lost it – and just after I had finished about one of the most striking pieces of news I have seen.…
march 13:–And now, a word from the competition…
There’s good, single sheet newspaper out of Fredericton. You can can see it at info@nbmediacoop.org It’s called The Brief. Currently it was a good story on our gift of forests…
March 12:…It’s one pm..
and the Times and Transcript still hasn’t appeared. If it were owned by government and operated by civil servants, the editorialist and Norbert would be ranting about how inefficient civil…
March 11: … and 11 a.m. in the morning…..
…and my Times and Transcript still hasn’t arrived. I’ve been told to hope for it about noon. It’s been like that for over a week. The Irving press cannot find…
March 10:Indulge me….
Montreal is naming a city library after Mordecai Richler. It’s on Avenue du Parc, and close to the heart of the old, Jewish district of Montreal were Mordecai grew up.…
March 9: How to not tell the truth without actually lying…
BBC News – today. “Putin reveals secret of Russia’s plot to take over Ukraine”Ooooh. – secret – plot – take over.. those words are evil, and they tell us Russia…
March 8: Probably a short one this time….
….but a bit explosive. Iraq news (that’s the ones on our side) have announced the capture of three military advisors working with ISIS. All three have surprising employers. Two are…
March 7: Yes. It can get worse.
On this day, the blazing headline on page 1, more important than anything else that is happening in the world, is the big news that hunting and fishing licences will…
March 6: Guns, guns, guns….
recently, a gun strore has been putting illustrated ads in the Times and Transcript. I’m quite dismayed to see what can legally be sold in Canada. One of the ads…
March 5: My Times and Transcript delivery…..
…., not for the first time, is some five hours late. So I’ll begin with a topic I only touched on yesterday. This is for school boards and for high…