Jan. 30: Words, Words, Words……
….are funny things. Some words are well, just nice. They sound soothing, soft and gentle. Some have a harsher sound, even brutal and jolting. Advertisers and propagandists learn that very…
Graeme Decarie
Jan.29: People in the US are suffering from a sudden, severe cold weather system…
…made worse by a severe shortage of natural gas for heating. In some areas, it’s as cold as -50 F. Why don’t they have fuel? Because, just a matter of…
Jan.28: Let’s go back….
…because it’s been bothering me. But I think I do understand Saturday’s Faith Page. The headline is First North River Church hosts pancake supper. There’s also a whole bunch of…
Jan. 27: I was wrong.
It’s been bothering me since yesterday when I wrote that New Brunswick is a fascist state. It isn’t. As Benito Mussolini defined it, a fascist state is one run by…
Jan. 26: The issue in the NB election.
I was just old enough to remember them coming to the house to say goodbye. And though it was long ago, I can still see their faces and hear their…
Jan. 25: Learning to teach…
Before I could teach grade 7, had to get get two years of a BA, and go to teachers’ college. Before I could teach high school, I had to finish…
Jan. 24:No word from our social betters?
It’s been almost a week since the meeting of our social superiors for an economic summit on the Moncton region (or Metro Moncton as the TandT just love to call…
Jan. 23: From best of the year to stinker of the year
It’s hard to believe that just days ago the TandT produced an edition that was quite decent. For this one, tough-thinking, sharp-eyed reporters went into the wild streets of Moncton…
Jan. 22: The history of ugliness..
(This blog also appears daily on the web as a column in La Presse Libre de Moncton Free Press. I regret to say that the site also carries other blogs…
Jan. 21: Stephen Harper: national embarrassment….and fool..
The only news story in Section A is that four people were wounded in a knife attack at Fredricton. The other, big story isn’t a story at all. It’s simply…
Jan. 20: Hallelujah!
They’ve done it. An Irving paper with real editorial and op ed pages, with well-written opinion columns that actually have something to say. And there’s not a stinker in the…
Jan. 19: volunteerism
A striking thing about New Brunswick is the frequency of photos in the press of smiling people (volunteers) holding cheques, sometimes giant ones, to hand to smiling recipients. These photos…
Jan. 18: Sit back, Cole Hobson…..
…and see how a real spin doctor does it. Today, Brent Mazerolle takes over on the Moncton “economic summit” (my, what a grand term), and shows what a real master…
Jan. 17: Harper, and the biggest blunder…..
…since native peoples asked Jacques Cartier to stay for supper. (I’m starting this one on the evening of Jan. 16 because there’s something I skipped yesterday to fit in the…
Jan. 16: The idiot story of the week…
In NewsToday, “Prime minister (Harper) to visit Israel.” He’s going to tell Israelis how much he loves them and is on there side for ever and ever. That’s the sort…
Jan. 15: Well, we don’t have to think about it anymore…..
…..because the Harper government isn’t going to do anything about oil tankers on our railways. We’re not going to hear any more about the police raid on Irving offices. The…
Jan. 14: a flurry of snow…..
NewsToday has two, big stories on oil train derailments – and put together, they add up to zero. In the case of Plaster Rock, the Federal Transportation Safety Board says…
Jan. 13:You, me, and all of us….
All us people can be terribly insensitive. This is something I should have mentioned regarding the front page of Leisure and Travel on Saturday. The story is about a family…
Jan. 11: Thank you to a reader who sent me….
….an announcement by Reuters, made on January 8. The five oil cars and four propane cars that went off the rails were carrying oil and propane at the request of…
Jan. 10: Okay. I don’t understand it.
Yesterday’s Times and Transcript had a full page of revolution with its editorial and two of its opinion columns yesterday. They accepted the reality of climate change. Now, in Canada…