March 12: Waddya’ think of when ya think of Castro and George Washington:
But first, read Alec Bruce and Norbert Cunningham. Alec Bruce looks at both sides in the shale gas debate, and is not impressed by either. That’s not my view. But…
Graeme Decarie
March 11: This is terribly, terribly late…
because it’s been a terribly, terribly busy day for me. It will also be short because this paper is so damned irrelevant that only two things are worth talking about.…
March 10: A salute to a brave man….
….on the op ed page, columnist Steve Malloy, brave little lad that he is, bares his chest to the rocks and arrows of enraged hockey fans. He’s fed up with…
March 9: Project for the New American Century
ever read about it – in any newspaper? Ever hear of its founder, William Kristol? Or of prominent members like George Bush’s Bush brother: Or former secretary of the army…
March 8: Some truth emerges…
We are getting a hint of what the new, Ukraine government is about. Yesterday, it cut all state pensions in half. That doesn’t mean all civil service pensions. It means…
March 7: ‘Pizza Delight’s business improving: CEO"
That’s the big story, complete with a photo of the CEO, on A3. Apparently, Pizza Delight had some bad times, and lots of people in it don’t like each other.…
March 6: Questions
1. How many people have been killed in fighting in Congo in the past year?2. Are any Canadian mining companies involved in the abuses that have led to the fighting…
March 5: Newspapers as propaganda, people as an hysterical mass…
A lead story from Canadian Press “Canada suspends Russian military ties” tells us that last week the Russians made a dramatic incursion into Crimea. No, they didn’t. There was not…
March : apologies
I have been feeling very rough for a week – with today especially awful. I am extremely weak, tired,, wheezy, high temperature, coughing, dreadfully runny nose. Medical experts are divided…
March 3: Leading observers rate Ukraine the crisis of the century….
…. so the Tand T gives us a story of twelve paragraphs of lies by foreign secretary John Baird – and it gets Baird’s name wrong in the headline! And…
March 2:: I was afraid this would happen – we now have only one more (stupid) step to go.
For all the self-righteous speeches we have heard, almost all have been lies. The US is NOT supporting a people struggling for freedom. It is supporting a group of rebels…
March 1: TIMES & TRANSCRIPT EXCLUSIVE: PAIR OF TIGERS ARRIVE IN MONCTON!
I can see it now, the publishers of the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, China Daily storming into their offices, faces red with rage. “Who let…
Feb. 28: My February budget balanced!
Okay. It’s no big deal to you. But to me it’s like the first summer sunrise after an awful winter. In other news, there’s a news source I should have…
Feb. 27: "Any kind of military intervention that would violate the. territorial integrity of the Ukraine….
would be a huge, a grave mistake.” US policy was aimed at helping people realize aspirations for freedom……” So says John Kerry, US Secretary of State. Donne-moi un break. This…
Feb. 26: Two weeks in Oct., 1960….
I shall never forget them. The fear was so high that students sometimes burst into tears in class. I remember a teacher who broke under the strain, and fled her…
Feb. 24:; As section A dropped at last from my numbed fingers,……
…..I had to face the fact that there is nothing to say about it – because there was nothing in it in the first place. Well, there were the usual…
Feb. 24: Where to begin?
Yesterday, I wrote that a government is not essentially a fund-raising organization. It is an institution we have created to serve our human needs as members of a society. Today,…
Feb. 23: S0 – where are we going?
Government is a social institution, not a financial one. It’s first responsibility is to the society that elects it. Yes, you need money to do that. But the starting point…
Feb.22: Wow! Wow!Wow!
A1. Big photo. “Roughly” a hundred community-minded citizens showed up at city hall to see what our new downtown will look like. Gee Whillikers. That means only a hundred and…
Feb. 21: "New Downtown Planned today."
That’s the banner headline on p. A1. And it’s so exciting, – well – it’s just going to change everything. The whole world will come to Moncton downtown because, well,…