Dec. 10 Is Alward a liar?
The banner headline on p. 1 reads “Alward pleased SWN ‘persevered’ through protests”. Yes, those are the words from the lips of the man who represents all the people of…
Graeme Decarie
Dec. 9: Mandella would be so pleased….
…at the plane load of official mourners from Canadian government circles going to his funeral. And the Irving Press has nothing but wonderful things to say about him. There is…
Dec. 8:My life is in ashes….
… I forgot to buy a lotto 6/49 yesterday. I mean, what is Sunday without a chance to look up my losing ticket? Mr. Mandella spent 27 years in prison,…
Dec. 7:
Well, let’s start with Jana Giles on p. F3. That’s in Whatever, the high school section. She wonders how sports have become so important in high school and university, and…
Dec. 6: Just briefly on the TandT – and then….
What’s to say? It’s the usual TandT. On the death of Nelson Mandela, Stephen Harper says, “World has lost one of ‘its great moral leaders’…” So it has. But the…
Dec. 5:
For many years now, I’ve been following a sort of blog called Information Clearing House. It’s almost a one-man operation which must require intense work as it scans the world…
Dec. 4: Wow! Yea! O joy O rapture unforeseen…
The TandT printed my letter on the project to teach enterpreneurship in the schools. Now, for those who would claim I am opposed to entrepreneurhip or to teaching it, that…
Dec. 3: Fascinating news story on p. A9….
Remember the story of how someone, presumably employed at Moncton City Hall, leaked the story that council has been paying Robert Irving to keep his hockey team in Moncton rather…
Dec.2: We’ll start on light note………
Because we’re going to need all the light notes we can get today. Start with Norbert. He is just wetting his pants over the CBC losing hockey night in Canada.…
Dec. 1: It gets worse…
A search of google using “executives psychopathic ” will turn out lots and lots of fascinating results. The percentage of psychopaths in executive offices is ten times the ratio that…
Nov. 30: And the Moncton TandT is holding steady at..
…stinking. P. A8 has yet another set of photos of our social betters holding a gala to raise money for the needy.Well, volunteer efforts like this are never going to…
Nov. 29: To hell with the Times and Transcript
“Christmas tree season is in full swing. Wow! Who woulda guessed it? Tha’t the front page headline in today’s TandT. Below is the same story as yesterday in the same…
Nov. 28: back, trying a different computer.
A strange story on p.1 “TandT tours the Big Apple”. It seems we have an airline that connects Moncton to New York. And that gave TandT editors the idea of…
nov. 27 – addendum
a short note to tell you the blog just sent for today is a mess. large parts are missing. some is repeated. I’ve had electronic interference for days now, and…
Nov.27: A remarkably vacant paper – even by Irving press standards.
If you don’t read the first section at all, it will make no difference whatever in your life. The lead story isn’t a story at all; it’s a promo for…
Nov. 27 DELAY
For a couple of weeks, my computer has been behaving oddly. And only when I am working on the blog. It constantly claims I am not connected to the web…
Nov. 26; MORE APOLOGIES
I’ve lost over a day now with both computers acting strangely. They claim they’re not connected to the web when I do a blog – but seem connected for all…
Nov. 25I’m sorry
I’ve been on this all day – and both computers have gone crazy. I’ve written the blog twice; they won’t send either – though everything else seems fine. On the…
Nov.24: I was more than a step slow on Saturday.
It occured to me a couple of hours after I did my blog. I had gone back to bed, hoping (unsucessfully) to fall asleep, when I suddenly realized I had…
Nov.23: Well, we’ll see…
I’ve been able to sleep only eight hours of the last 48; and I’m deeling like Rob Ford trying to get over a coke jag by having tea at a…