July 23: With the world in flames, the big story is…
..Magnetic Hill zoo’s Asian exhibit should open in September. There’s also a fast-breaking story that a Harvey’s restaurant has closed. It’s true, too. There’s even a photo of it –…
Graeme Decarie
July 22: lean pickings
The biggest story (perhaps the only story) in section A is that a new shoe store is coming to Moncton. We’re on the edge of the greatest crisis in history.…
July 19: Funny how us people think (part 2)
Sorry to be late. I was within a sentence of finishing it when the cat cleverly stepped on my keyboard, and I got a blank screen. _____________________________________________________________________ Firday’s banner headline…
July 17: …funny how us people think….
In Wednesday’s paper, on p. 5, Canada’s Foreign Minister says Hamas started this bloodshed, and can end it. He expressed sympathy for the dead and injured by Israel’s attack. But,…
July 15: The news is bad, really bad…
I’m doing it again. I’m starting this late on a Saturday night when I should be doing something recreational like washing pigeon poo off my balcony. The trouble is that…
July 12: What’s going on?
Ain’t nothing going on in Section A of Friday’s paper. In C, page 5, we have a headline “Pension report favours province’s pension reforms”. The sub-head tells us the N.B.…
July 11: just annoyed. that’s all..
It’s late Friday night. I should be in bed doing crossword puzzles. But It’s been a bloody annoying day – starting with a CTV “news” report on Palestine. And once…
July 10: What a jackass! it has
I’m beginning this on the evening of July 9 so that tomorrow I can write, “I told you so”. The federal justice committee is interviewing social workers, people in the…
July 8: Wow! Big story! Nothing happened….
There’s a big picture on the front page of police in bullet-proof vests, and one of the them carrying a rifle. The big story? Nothing. There had been a false…
July 5: Bad taste? Ignorance?
Page G8 of Saturday’s TandT has a full page titled “Five free things to see and do in Detroit”.I’m sure that will attract the full attention of those many New…
July 3: The exceptionalism of Exceptionalism.
Obama has recently and publicly stated that he believes in American Exceptionalism with “every fibre of his being”. In fact, that can be said of almost everyone in the American…
July1: My old, high school song – and the future of NB education….
—–terrible mistake. When I finished my Saturday blog, I forgot to publish it. Just fixed that today.) And now back to my high school song… (Tune: The Caissons Go Rolling…
June 28: propaganda, cheap sensationalism and plain old trivia
Section D for June 28,has five – count them. five – full pages of pictures of grad dance couples. Apart from their parents, is it possible that anybody gives a…
June 26: Well, let’s start with the June 25 paper…..
….it doesn’t take long to read, and has almost nothing worth reading in it. Just two items really struck me. One was a statement by Joe Biden in defence of…
June 24: The most important news story – ever…..
…..No, it doesn’t get a lot of space It has almost no information in it. And it’s hidden in yesterday’s (June 23) paper in a small section at the bottom…
June 21:It was last night on St. George St…..-
…..as I drove by I caught a glimpse of an elderly man. He looked pretty ragged, and he was sleeping in the doorway of a business closed for the day.…
June 19: Let’s start slowly…
For some years, children, including very young ones, have been fleeing across the Mexican border into the US. In March, it was almost 40,000, with some travelling as many as…
June 17:Moncton’s priorities
The Scots have a profound sense of sinning, and a constant need to repent. That’s why they suffer Presbyterianism. That’s why the national dish is haggis, a dish that needs…
June 16: Sound and fury meaning nothing….
I have just read the report of Brian Gallant speaking to kick off his campaign in Dieppe. What a tiresome and brainless experience that was! Gallant, it seems, is a…
June 14: Please, Mr. Mayor….
On page A1, Mayor George Leblanc says “…police killings will not define Moncton.” Mr. Mayor, talk a walk to Victoria Part.There is a monument there with the many, many names…