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The Courier Blog: June 2010
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010. Tax dollars, watered down. There are times when you just have to wonder who’s thinking these days. Tuesday morning, a team of two were busy watering the hanging baskets out front of our office on Milltown Boulevard in St. Stephen. This would be Tuesday, June 8, the second day after five centimetres of rain deluged the area, and the day after baseball folks were hoping for a string of warm, sunny days to dry out soggy, water-laden baseball fields. Your tax dollars at work. If you st...
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The Courier Blog: November 2010
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Saturday, November 27, 2010. Please, just count this time, OK? It was a Sunday, and the newsroom of the Prince Albert Daily Herald was abnormally packed. Two "deskers" - an industry term for layout editors, a sports reporter, myself, and a general news reporter gathered around the television on a chill night. (They're all chill at that time of the year: one of the reasons I wanted to move here! We knew, we all knew, that the psyche of an entire province lay in the play ahead. My job that night was to co-...
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Heritage Charlotte: January 2014
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014. Historic New Brunswick Newspapers Online. The good folks at Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, Ohio) have been busy putting historic newspapers online for all to glance through. Currently, there are 30 papers in the collection. My own favorite is the St. Andrews Bay Pilot. I will still keep my fingers cross that one day one publications of the Saint Croix Courier. Will be available online! Tuesday, January 28, 2014. Location: Canal, NB E5C, Canada. Simple template&#...
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The Courier Blog: March 2010
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010. Manners - you gottem. Last week, I ranted about the lack of logical order at the traffic circle in St. Stephen. Now, lest folks come to an unfavourable opinion of yours truly, I wanted to note a driving behaviour that I find most abnormal. Let me describe, if I may. The other day, I decided that I didn't want to go home for lunch, and hence, engaged in a Courier staff ritual: I went out the door, turned left and set my bearings for Pizza Delight. Here's where things get odd.
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The Courier Blog: Proud veteran helps Thompson
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Friday, September 12, 2008. Proud veteran helps Thompson. Signs of the times – Veteran helps with Greg Thompson signs. Picture submitted by Patrick Leland. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). This blog welcomes and encourages reader comments. Opinions expressed on this blog are those of the writers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Saint Croix Courier. The Courier is not responsible for the content or the views expressed in the comments sections or on external sites. The Bangor Daily News.
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The Courier Blog: September 2010
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Friday, September 17, 2010. Baffled by New Brunswick politics. These few weeks are going to be tough, with general accusations that yours truly is biased, clueless, ill-informed, incompetent, irrelevant and a general waste of oxygen. No, I’m not talking about the guts of football officiating season. It’s that time that every editor ever to put ink to print dreads: election time. Nope Toto, we’re not in Kansas, anymore. Not here. Judging by the multitude of press releases I keep getting, the PCs must ...
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The Courier Blog: October 2010
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Thursday, October 28, 2010. Halloween fear oddly ironic. Religion is a powerful force, indeed, it is one of the unifying elements of humanity – although one wouldn’t think so, to see some of the atrocities committed in the name of religion. The logic, of course, is that Halloween is seen as a non-Christian event, somehow in conflict with Judeo-Christian principles. This, however, doesn’t bear the test of history. But I still have a passion for that field. Here’s an interesting tidbit: almost every ...
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The Courier Blog: Ignorance is hardly bliss
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Friday, November 12, 2010. Ignorance is hardly bliss. As timing goes, a press release issued by a group calling itself the Institute for Canadian Values. Could not have been worse – nor could it have possibly been better. On Thursday at 2:19 pm, the man claiming to be the group’s president, Dr. Charles McVety, issued a press release decrying a federal bill that aims to include transgendered individuals as people protected from discrimination. The latter is somewhat my personal view, by the way. I hav...
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The Courier Blog: Potash decision pits Tory principles against wise governance
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010. Potash decision pits Tory principles against wise governance. These are interesting times for the federal Conservative government. And for those who watch Ottawa, it seems as if the Stephen Harper government is recognizing that good governance does not necessarily mean following a set of defined political ideals with unswaying passion. Two mining-related moves underscore this shift in realization. This is heavy stuff. The Conservatives can stick to their party principles and ...
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