Youthful warriors, then and now
As an older person, I am perhaps more appreciative of how beautiful young people are than they are themselves. I am certainly more appreciative of the life they have available to them. With Canada currently at war for the first time in my adult life, I am forcibly reminded of the youth of […]
The joy of bigotry
Being an internet junkie with a fair number of pen pals, I get many forwarded messages every week. Of those, at least one a week enjoins us all to show our patriotism in reaction to some insult or abuse by immigrants, Muslims, even (gasp) liberals. I’ve seen a message from the man […]
Francis X McKenna Regional Hospital?
The Hugh John Flemming Forestry Centre and the Hugh John Flemming Bridge at Hartland commemorate the late premier’s service to New Brunswick. There is a Senator Richard Hatfield memorial fund at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. There is a monument to Louis J. Robichaud in his home town of Ste. Antoine. It is […]
Industrial parks and cargo cults
There are primitive tribes, or recently were, who had little interaction with the modern world. The age of aircraft is not so very old. There were instances when planes crashed in remote jungles and, naturally, attracted the attention of the local residents. They were quite pleased by some of the things they found […]
Remembrance
My father used to quote, with amusement, a short refrain: “You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God, the British journalist. But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there’s no occasion to.” Thanks to Google, I found the verse, and its author, last week. He was Humbert Wolfe, a British […]
Opportunity hammering at the door
There was a time when there was no opportunity for immigrants here because there were no employment opportunities for the people already here. Now our population is in decline and many of our young people, experienced trades people, and even young retired folk are flowing West. Opportunities to really get ahead, establish a […]
Gump, Double Gump and Miramichi clubs
When I started calling 773-5501 over 30 years ago, Gump Gorman had already been driving cab in Miramichi for 17 years. When I needed a cab on Wednesday, while my car was being serviced, Gump was the driver. His son is now the proprietor. He said that, at 82, (doesn’t look it) he’s […]
Christian?
Back in September, Charles Moore, a columnist in the Saint John Telegraph Journal made me livid. He wrote a column headed “Christianity Is Under Siege by Sacraphobes.” It began “When religion is the topic du jour in newspaper letters, columns, on open line radio and TV shows and journalistic commentary, a chorus […]
The bilingualism joke
New Brunswick is the only officially bilingual province in Canada. What a joke! Again this week, I sat among a roomful of Anglophones, many of them a third my age, who had signed up for French second language training at New Brunswick Community College night school. Some of them will make […]
Support our troops!
Do you walk to work or take your lunch? Do you support our troops or want to bring them home? The second question is as much a non sequitur as the first. Does supporting the troops mean keeping them in harm’s way on the say-so of people with political rather than […]
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