March 8: A very pleasant surprise…
…no. It wasn’t section A. Unless you get sexually aroused by a photo of a balding man pouring himself a beer, the only only thing worth looking at in Section…
Graeme Decarie
March 7: Wow! a Men’s Probus Club…
I just love it when headlines talk dirty. If seems the mayor of Riverview gave a speech to the Men’s Probus Club. I’ve never seen a man’s probus. But, then,…
March 6: Mostly boring….
The lead story is that the CFL will play a game in Moncton this fall – and we’ll make millions and millions of dollars. Several questions have always puzzled me…
March 5: Brilliant and fair-minded……
…..by the standards of the Moncton Times and Transcript. The front page even has a full colour picture of a shale gas protest, featuring two, very cute, little girls. The…
March 4: How not to write a headline….
Headlines are normally written or, at least, approved by editors. The purpose of the headline is to give readers a sense of the main point of the story. This is…
March 3: Truth is stranger than fiction….
….and far less believable. A century ago, we were preparing to fight World War One, the biggest war yet. The war ended in chaos for both winners and losers with…
March 2: the blahs….
Section A of today’s Moncton Times and Transcript can be safely skipped. – except for an item on page 2, just a small item; but it says a lot about…
March 1: dangerous misreporting….
Yesterday, Ecole Champlain filled with smoke and noxious fumes.The obvious first reaction? Well, evacuate the children, of course. And that the Moncton Times and Transcript reported it as though that…
Feb. 28:
In a comment you can find at the foot of yesterday’s post, a reader asked why our schools don’t seem to teach critical thinking. It’s worth checking that comment to…
feb. 27: Lots of good news on the front page….
…Lots of smarmy smeary, sticky-sweet good news. In fact, it’s rather like kissing a girl with a dirty face, too much lipstick and a mouthful of molasses candy. (not that…
Feb. 26: New Brunswick’s infectious rot….
Very briefly, today’s Times and Transcript has very little news, a kiss-up editorial, a hick-town column by Norbert, and and an utterly brainless and irrelevant column by Alan Cochrane. The…
Feb. 25: slim pickings
In the whole of section A, there are, perhaps, two news stores worth reading. Amazingly, one of them is the lead story on p. 1. “N.B. needs new approach to…
Feb. 24: Final Act, Scene 1. The NB Revolution
Premier Alward gave two and a half million dollars to Jamie Irving, publisher of the of Bunswick News. Wasn’t that sweet of him? Two and a half million dollars of…
Feb. 23: Big, big changes are planned…
While idly fiddling my way through Google, looking up local events, I came across the name of a woman, a senior civil servant in New Brunswick, who holds a Black…
Feb. 22:bits good, bits of bad…..
Before beginning today’s blog, I really must add a few words to yesterday’s. This concerns the editorial on the new high school. It was an editorial that combined ignorance and…
Feb. 21: The news YOU need to know…
..”Snowy weather challenges N.B. road-clearing crews.”…”Baby born at Dieppe home.”….”Impact of federal job cuts debated.” ( meaning – We don’t know anything because nobody knows what’s going on.) Will federal…
Feb. 20: For those in a hurry……
…today’s issue of the Moncton Times and Transcript is a bargain. This one can be read over a small bowl of cereal and a cookie at under five minutes. Really…
Feb. 19: Well, it could have been a big story….
The lead headline is that lots of babies were born in Moncton Hospital on Valentine’s Day. Now, what does this mean? How does it change our lives? Well, it could…
Feb. 18: hurry, hurry, hurry, getcher piplines….
This weekend saw demonstrations across the US, the largest one of 35,000 to 50,000 in Washington, DC. They were protesting against the Keystone Pipeline, the one that is proposed to…
Feb. 17: Bring the little children……
Together, Canadian and American governments spend well over 500 billion dollars on education. That’s a lot of money. What a pity to waste it all on children! That realization several…