Oct. 14: Wow! A page and a half of people……
….picking apples. (Actually only one photo is of a person who is actually picking an apple.) Also in the Monday edition, a big story that the Fundy lobster season is…
Graeme Decarie
Our Selective Remembrance Day – and The Atlantic Charter of 1941
On November 11, we pause to remember those who died and those who were crippled either mentally or physically in battle. So we should. We sent them to risk death…
Oct. 11: rock bottom
The Friday and Saturday edition of the TandT for this week are the worst I have yet seen in that whole, wretched Irving press. For Wednesday, the section A news…
Oct. 9: the news media and manipulation
Most news media don’t tell the news. They create it. For example……. In the Korean war, UN forces easily beat North Korea – China became very worried that they were…
Oct. 7: Canadian values and prinicples – hypocrisy is number one.
It’s Monday. I’ve been watching Harper and his crowd preaching to the House of Commons on TV. It reminded me of graduate school days. One of my teachers was Arthur…
Oct. 5: Canada’s outstanding photo of war…
….hangs in the War Museum in Ottawa. It never fails to move me. It appeared yesterday in Toronto’s Globe – and in the National Post and the Star because it’s…
Oct. 2: Skip the first nine pages of section A….
….there is nothing in them worth reading. Then there’s Norbert on the editorial page, sounding tough while avoiding the real issues. This one is a part of a series he’s…
Sept. 30: Go to Chapters at the Mall…..
Go in the front doors, and immediately take 7 or 8 steps to the right, then look right to the shelves devoted to New Brunswick books. You will see one…
Lord love a duck…
Where to start… Thursday’s Big Story in Section A (p. 3) is literally big, taking up three-quarters of a page. It’s made up largely of quotations from two cousins, Brian…
Sept. 25: smoking, insanity, and our world…
Sixty-four years ago, tobacco company stocks were the yellow brick road to wealth. Then, in 1950, Reader’s Digest ran an article titled “Cancer by the Carton”, warning of the dangers…
Sept. 23: Well, what can you expect…
….. in a province in which two-thirds of the voters are functionally illiterate, and both the newspapers and the two, traditional political parties are owned by the same people? That…
Sept. 20: What a dreary life…
…to read the Irving press every day. Other papers, even the bad ones, at least dream up exciting headlines like “Drug-crazed Stephen Harper dances naked at evangelical conference”. Nor is…
Sept. 18: Our private news media – from one who knows…
The name of Ray McGovern isn’t well known these days. But for over thirty years he was a top analyst for the CIA, and he was a Washington insider at…
Sept. 16: The new, reorganized Times and Transcript is even worse than the old one.
And the old one was wretched, indeed. I watch in amazement as blog readership climbs spectacularly in France, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Germany…. It must make them feel good to learn…
late on a Sunday night – and not the usual blog
I guess it all started when Obama gave his fatuous, self-serving, and lying address on the “war against terror”. Maybe it was that bit about how the world looks to…
Sept. 13: I’m used to getting some pretty bozo flyers from…
…our Conservative Member of Parliament, Robert Goguen. But the latest is a real stunner. It poses a question. Do you think Canadian citizenship is a right? and two circles to…
Sept. 11: Debates dominate election campaign…
So says page 1 of section A for the Moncton Times and Tribune.. And the only possible answer to that is so bloody what. The Broadbent Institute is one of…
Sept. 8: anything happening in Scotland? Nae
The Scottish vote on separation from Britain is nearing. And polls are showing the separatists in the lead. The effects on England, militarily, economically and diplomatically, will be serious. And…
Sept. 6: Let’s forget the Irving press for a bit…
…there’s nothing in it anyway. But something happened yesterday that can only be understood with a lot of history. While suffering the boredom forced on us seniors by exercise instructors…
Sept. 4: hysteria?
Section A has a few pages of N.B. party platforms worth reading. Alward’s platform is already dead in the water because we know what he’ll do —-whatever Mr. Irving tells…