First, you must read www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/01/quran-charlie-hebdo-radicalism-p-20151881632716947-html This is far the most intelligent commentary I have found on the Paris shootings. The writer sees the shootings not as a result of the…
My, the comics page in the Irving press is terrible. But that, at least, is not the fault of the Irving press. Even the Blondie strip, nearing a century old,…
A news story tells us what happened. That’s all. It does not tell us what to think of it. That is not the role of a reporter. A columnist can…
Today, the Irving press joined the stampede of hypocrisy over the Paris shootings. It’s all over the editorial and op ed pages in a massive display of ignorance, racism, and…
One of the big stories in the Irving press now is, of course, the shootings in Paris. And the reports are stuffed full of rage at what they call an…
I got the name of our province’s chief medical officer wrong. It’s Cleary. There’s a reason for that which exonerates me completely. But it’s too long and complicated to explain.…
….to save lives in Ebola plague….. Wow! Wow! Wow! I can see it all now – a front page in full colour, banner headline, and the whole first section dedicated…
For a break, I thought Iid like to write about something broader and more useful than the Irving press. That occurred to me as I read the story about the…
Section A, on a quick read, seems its usual, ghastly self, though it has an important headline for a start. “Report fails province on poverty reduction”. The report comes from…
I had promised a review of Gwynne Dyer’s book, Climate Wars; and though I have certainly been critical of Israel, I think I can understand how it got that way,…
Quelle surprise…I guess that’s why it made page A2 of the ever-alert Irving press. But surely this has been public knowledge for years. I knew one of the Prince’s teachers…
The Irving press seems to be ignoring the story; but the pope has announced at a recent environmental council that he is declaring climate change his issue of the year.…
The front page, banner headline in the TandT is, “Spirit of Moncton is newsmaker of the year”. That is surely an embarrassing reminder of the worst of the small-town boosterism…
“Creeps in this petty pace from day to dayTo the last syllable of recorded time;” The lines above are proof that William Shakespeare must have read the Irving press every…
…the Irving press is still plunging. On p. A1, the big story is a human interest, shed a happy tear story about a South Korean family here in Moncton that…
I was in my apartment building’s laundry room yesterday. Time passes slowly down there. So I wandered over to a stack of Maclean’s magazines. MacLean’s was never a really good…
(foreign news at the bottom just below the line ###################################) Sorry to be late with this one. I spent much of the day at the worship services for Boxing Day…
Again, foreign news will be at the end of this blog -separated by ################# Now, go to google – “The Atlantic, The alarming research behind New York’s fracking ban.” This…
####Since over half of the readers of this blog are from outside Canada, and so surely cannot be interested in New Brunwick’s local affairs, I’m experimenting with a new format.…
On P. B4 of the Dec. 18 TandT, these are the worlds of Stephen Harper in reaction to a Taliban attack on a school in Pakistan that killed 131 children.…
