Oct.12: one million Candians depend on food banks…
..and food banks in New Brusnwick are facing an increasing demand. You can find both stories if you look hard enough through today’s back pages. Canadian poverty, if still below…
Graeme Decarie
Oct. 11: The cowboy singer and the Irving press…
Damn, damn, damn. I have finished a whole blog – and accidentally deleted it. Damn. OK. Here goes again. But I’m not happy.____________________________———————————— The tradition of the the singing cowboy…
Oct. 10: the enemy is us…
I am beginning this post on Wednesday evening because I shall be busy tomorrow, starting the first of a series of six classes (How to Understand the News) for Tantramar…
Oct. 9: A new TandT face on p.1…..
…at least I cannot remember seeing it before. But oh, this new face will fit right in with the Irving press. His name is Michael Woloschuk. and he writes with…
Oct. 8" Let’s not talk about the Irving press…
The rain has stopped. The sun is coming out. The TandT is its usual, wretched self – except for NewsToday. It is so good, it is almost mediocre. But let’s…
Oct. 7:What is Alward up to?
It’s been many, many weeks since the beginning of the shale gas confrontations at Rexton. As we all know, there is not the slightest possiblity that Alward will accept a…
Oct. 5:The TandT as gossip mag….
…you know, the ones you see at the supermarket check-out with a picture of a fat woman in a bikini with the face blacked out, and the headline “Guess what…
Oct.4: Well, I once had hope of Cole Hobson….
…..His columns were never brilliant. But at least they were unpretentious, and they dealt with subjects of some meaning to our daily lives. But today, he decided to deal with…
Oct. 3:
For a start, just a brief return to young Goguen and his “newsletter”. He made much of Harper’s determination to get tough on crime, and also to crack down on…
Oct. 2:
Yesterday’s blog was so long, I had no room even for a brief word about out federal Conservative MP, Mr. Goguen, and the very expensive news sheet he delivered to…
Oct. 1: What the…..?
The American government has shut down for lack of money – with implications we can only guess at.. Canada’s John Baird gives very strange speech at the UN. An expensive…
Sept. 30: no news but – oh – what a blooper…..
I’ll save the blooper for the end. It’s a real collector’s item. The only international news story is one from Kenya, “Last body in morgue identified after mall attack.” Now,…
Sept. 29: just a short blog for a Sunday….
‘Newsrooms’, the total number of reporters available to a news medium, are generally far too small, and getting smaller. The result is that it’s not possible to have enough reporters…
Sept. 28: Guess who scooped the irving press – again…..
Transport Canada will be investigating the work of Professor Lapierre in the building of the bridge to PEI. Well, of course. Here is a man with no qualifications involved in…
Sept. 27: news editors – lazy? sloppy? profoundly ignorant? or deliberately all three…
last night, I made a list of stories I felt sure the Irving press would not carry. I acted as if I were news editor for the TandT, selecting those…
Sept. 26" An apology to Rod Allen…
For a long time I have thought and written that Rod Allen is a hugely self-satisfed writer of meager talent as displayed in some of the most trivial columns I…
Sept. 25: Missing the point….
All the comment I’ve seen on l’affaire Professor Lapierre has missed the point and only one group has reacted with any credit to itself. The rector of UdeMoncton has expressed…
Sept. 24: Actor Michael Douglas is hoping to get back with his wife….
…that, for anyone who gives a damn, is the most interesting news in today’s TandT. The front page is wasted on baffelgab about the health system, and the new, “businesslike”…
Sept. 23: Lies, stupidity, and the burning, sulphur smell of real evil….
Mr. Alward and his merry men, especially Craig Leonard, have made much of their claim that Professor Lapierre was honoured by the prestigious National Academy of Sciences when it invited…