Nov. 15: Entrepreneurs and stuff….
I have never before seen a news medium that uses the word entrepreneur as much as the Irving Press does. There is an English term that covers what they use…
Graeme Decarie
Nov. 14: Taking up where Nov. 13 left off.
This is my second attempt to use up all the notes I have on current events. And, before I even start, I must admit I forgot an excellent book for…
Just a little bit about the Irving press…
…because there’s nothing in it… not even yet another picture of Robert Irving accepting yet another award from some hokey hall of fame. Thursday’s headline is about how the provincial…
Nov. 11: Avoiding the news….
Monday’s edition, page A1, has a classic of model of how to tell the news without really telling anything, and putting readers to peaceful slumber at the same time. “Derailment…
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For a start, take a look at Al Jazeera. It’s easily available on the web, has a very wide range of news, a very wide range of opinions, and in…
Nov. 7: Miscellania
This is not one of the regular blogs. It’s one I’ve started just out of frustration at the lying and corruption that characterizes so much of our news media. I…
Nov. 6: The big push is on…
I was a little surprised that the Irving press published the story of the UN report on climate change and fossil fuels. But they’re making up for that single and…
Nov. 4: I didn’t think they’d publish it.
When the UN published its report on climate change, it said that a) it is almost entirely man-made b)it’s largely a result of the burning of fossil fuels c) if…
Nov. 3: an extra on Donald Savoie’s vision of the future…and….
In his Saturday column for the Times and Transcript, prof. Don Savoie writes glowingly of the world of the future when globalization is complete. Now, I am not an economist…
Nov. 1: To the despair of my highland Scots ancestors….
….and the joy of my French Catholic ones, I read a newsletter from The Vatican. It’s called Catholic News; and it carries a story of a talk given by Pope…
Oct. 30: October thirty, part two….
Nothing changes. The TandT is still running “news stories” (ads) about the wine expo on page 1. Page A2 still has ads for itself disguised as news stories. A6 has…
Oct. 30: You made me what I am today—
—I hope you’re satisfied.You dragged and dragged me down untilThe soul within me died.You shattered every hope and dream.You fooled me from the start.And though you’re not throughMay God bless…
Oct. 28; Memories of the First Afghan War ; 1842
The Irving press has pretty stinking papers But only part of it is by design. The rest is just natural incompetence and ignorance. For stinkers by deliberate and intelligent design,…
Oct. 25: Patriotism: the last refuge of a scoundrel
Thought for the day. Harper sternly said that ISIS leaders have threatened to launch attacks on Canada. But, said our hero leader, we will not allow such barbarism from evil…
Nov.24: The Heirs to Dr. Goebbels
Dr. Goebbels was Hitler’s propaganda chief. He was pretty good at it, convincing Germans that everything was under control even as Allies troops fought into Germany from East and West,…
Nov. 22: Sieg Heil!
I am embarrassed. I wrote the blog below early this morning, and posted it (I thought)/ To my horror, late on this Thursday night, I discovered I hadn’t posted it.…
Oct. 22: You probably won’t agree with me.
I’ve been watching TV this Wednesday with a sinking heart. First, there’s the killing of two Canadian soldiers. Some official made the idiotic statement that what was terrible about this…
Nov. 21: late news. In fact, it isn’t here yet.
(an apology for today. You may find two copies of this coming up on your screen. That’s because while I was typing the first half or so, the cat sat…
Oct. 18: Let’s start with the Faith page, I mean…
I mean what the hell…. we live in religious society. Right? Business operates on principles of being charitable, loving neighbours, etc… I mean that’s why we have an Irving Chapel…
Oct. 16: Sometimes it’s easier to talk about what’s not in the Irving press…
…than to talk about what is. For example… The Wall St. Journal for Oct. 14 says that the reason third world countries lack enough health workers is because Canada, the…