May 25: Straight As for the columnists
Belliveau, Norbert, Brent Mazerolle and Gwynne Dyer all did themselves proud today. With the exception of the editorial itself, the editorial and op ed page would do proud to any…
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May 24: The Press as Pimp
Oh, first, let me begin with an apology. Yesterday, I said that Harper would soon become chair of an international commission on environmental protection of the Arctic. I was wrong.…
May 23: All hail Robert Goguen!
Yesterday, I received in my mailbox a tabloid sized, eight page newspaper printed on rather expensive paper. It purported to come from Robert Goguen, our Conservative MP. In fact, it…
May22:I’m late in starting this because….
…I read my copy of the Times and Transcript early this morning. And at the end, I thought, “what can I say?” There are three ways to control people. One…
May 21: Is Norbert a communist?
He may not be. It may just seem that way as a result of his sloppy use of words. (In a minor example today, he used the ugly word “gotten”…
May 20: Yesterday?…oh…..
….It was such a nice day. And I had to pick up my daughter after a dance and I didn’t get to bed until after midnight and I sat up…
May 18: Credit where credit is due….
Today’s Faith Page came as a pleasant surprise. It didn’t take on the rich and powerful – as the Pope’s letter did. But it did break away from the mindless…
May 17: editorial and op ed pages are for OPINION – dammit
On the op ed page of today’s Times and Transcript, there is a note from the President of Crandall University, apologizing (sort of) for having offended lesbians, gays, bisexuals and…
May 16: Sorry to be late, today. I fell asleep….
…while reading section A of the Times and Transcript. Seriously. I mean, how long can one read a section whose front page, feature photo is of a man cutting the…
May 15: Bugs and blah…
News media are the first line of defence for democracy. That should be the first lecture in any Journalism 101 course. Without a supply of unbiased and relevant information from…
May 14: The story you won’t see in the Times and Transcript.
I am beginning this blog on the evening of May 13 because I’m confident the big story will not appear (ever) in the Times and Transcript. The President of Guatemala…
May 13: What’s a tout?
Important question…but, first, lets look at a story the editorial elves at the Moncton TandT didn’t notice. An American government air-testing station, one that sets the standard for the world,…
May 12: 1000 women in Bangladesh…
1000 women in Bangladesh buried alive. They had been locked into a ramshackle building to ensure they would stay for their full, long work hours to ensure they really earned…
May 11:
The toll of dead women in the collapse of a clothing factory in Bangladesh has now reached a thousand. The corporations who bought their clothing are, of course, shocked. Gee.…
May 10: Let’s start with booze….and then see why New Brunswickers are passive….
There’s a popular belief in Canada and the US that heavy drinking of alcohol actually began with the passage of prohibition. Not true. Canadians and Americans were heavy drinkers up…
May 8: The story that isn’t there
It seems there are two kilometres of pipeline with oil residue in it running through St. John. It’s an Irving line that that went out of use over forty years…
May 8: Break out our best, vintage beer….
For the first time in my experience, The Moncton Times and Transcript has a front page story that really is a front page story. It’s about a big bush fire…
May 7: Perhaps a short blog, today…
I’m late starting because I’m at that point when one’s social life consists of seeing doctors – and it was a full morning of yakking it up over blood tests,…
May 6: Poor Loblaw’s…it didn’t know…
…that women supplying it with clothes were working under deadly conditions for a dollar fifty a day. How could they know that conditions were so bad and pay so terrible?…
May 5: Brian Mulroney (and us)…..
…and those hundreds of women burned to death in Bangladesh. There can’t be the slightest doubt about it. The owners of garment factories in Bangladesh knew that the chances of…