April 1: Yesterday, we had freezing rain…
…if you missed it the TandT has lots of pictures of what rain looks like when it freezes. We also had a massive power outage in the evening. Alas, there…
Graeme Decarie
March 31: opening with stories that don’t appear in the TandT
1. Oil, gas, and mining companies can now do legal exploration drilling British Columbia provincial parks. Industrial development in them will follow,of course. What’s the point of exploration drilling if…
March 30: A "must read"
Bernie Sanders is a U.S. senator from Vermont. He is neither Democrat nor Republican. He is an Independent Senator, and he is so popular in Vermont that he has been…
March 29: It’s official…….
…based on regularity of appearance and length of stories, the most important event in New Brunswick, perhaps in the world so far in this year is the quarrel over recreation…
March 28: laugh or cry?
NewsToday, page 1, has the story (or a story) on the UN vote against Crimea on the issue of its vote for separation from Ukraine. Well, it has a story.…
March 27:Harper plays the dangerous fool….
Page 1 of NewsToday has an article on Harper warning Germany about Russia. He spoke of bigger military powers who are prepared to invade their neighbours and carve off pieces.…
March 26: Learning to hate….f
Most of the people in this world grow up surrounded by hatred. Where I grew up, English hated French, and Italians, and Jews, and African-Canadians, and Poles, and Japanese, and…
March 25:
I’m starting this on the evening of March 24 while a few ideas are buzzing through my head. A few days ago 5 members of parliament of a certain country…
March 24: It’s enough to make you cry…..
According to today’s New York Times, Japan has enough enriched uranium to build a large number of nuclear weapons. They’ve had it, and the US has known about it, “for…
March 23: Stray thoughts on a Sunday….
Some weeks ago, the TandT carried a story of the Moncton RCMP getting an armoured car. There was a small picture with an even smaller text that said nothing.And this…
March 22:Gee: I guess the TandT didn’t get that letter to the media…
……from the former biology officer who said the new forestry deal is a fraud, and strongly implied the government is lying about it – and that it’s a sell-out to…
March 21; Remember Dr. Lapierre and shale gas….?
Remember how the Irving press avoided the story at first? And then it wrote a story about it so misleading that some might call it lying. And notice the government…
March 20: Yesterday, on March 19, on the op ed page—–
….there appeared a very special op ed column concerning the future health and well-being of the people of New Brunswick. It said that the recent gift of additional crown lands…
March 19: Flash! Breaking news! See page A 1.
If a parking meter is snowed in so it is inaccessible, you don’t have to feed it. Actually, I had already figured that as pretty obvious. But this is useful…
March 18: t you want to understand current events….
…read today’s column on the op ed page of the TandT, the one by Gwynne Dyer. The story goes back to 1988. I remember it well. I was in the…
Nov. 17: What is a heritage?
It happens every St. Patrick’s day or Rabbie Burns day or whoever’s day. We gather to celebrate our heritage. As a regular speaker at Robert Burns’ dinners, and with a…
March 16: do we have illiterate news media?
To read, listen to, and watch the news of the past week has been disturbing not just because of the news, but because of – well – the blizzard of…
March 15: Metro businessmen favour selling elderly as slaves…
…no….no…that’s not it. Metro businessmen want schools to be taught only by metro-businessmen….no, that’s true; but it’s not the big, front page story..no….Ah, I have it….Remember the 2014 Economic Summit?…
March 14: Yet ANOTHER front page headline on Irving goodness
We’re still still dealing with Alward’s massive (and foolish) gift of our forests to Mr. Irving. Front page. Banner headline. Again. The key sentence (and perhaps a trifle too obvious…
March 13: Forestry plan will spur investment: Alward
Well, that’s not entirely a truthful headline, is it? I mean, we all know that Mr. Alward has never had a thought all his own since he began politics. Having…