Category: Issue 30

SOYLENT GREEN

In an accompanying article (see “And So It Is Confirmed”) I expressed (vented?) my concerns with the recent Telegraph Journal article wherein pollster Don Mills advocated that our government dedicate all its job creation efforts towards job creation in urban areas of New Brunswick. To him, these urban centers...

AND SO IT IS CONFIRMED

The End for Rural NB? Revisited…. Just a couple of weeks ago I wrote an article entitled “The End for Rural New Brunswick?”. Honestly folks, I had no idea at the time that the barbarians would be at the gate so quickly! The June 26th headline in the Telegraph...

An open letter to Mike Allen MP Tobique-Mactaquac And concerned citizens:

Nancy Hutkin of Aroostook contacted us at the Blackfly Gazette to ask us to publish this letter. She describes issues that concern all of us living in rural New Brunswick.   One of our missions here at the BFG is to help spark discussions, dialog and, hopefully, action concerning...

Weed Killer in GMO Cigarettes

I used to smoke when I was younger. Like most young people, I thought I’d live forever, at least until I was 30 anyway, and after that who cared…life would be over!   At any rate, I soon got over my love affair with cigarettes and quit the things....

Note From the New Brunswick Green Party

In his book “The Unsettling of America”, first published in 1977, Wendell Berry states: “No rational person can see how using up the topsoil or the fossil fuels as quickly as possible can provide greater security for the future; but if enough wealth and power can conjure up the...

Perth-Andover Business Connection Kick-Off

Last fall local Perth business people created the Perth-Andover Business Connection in order to promote local mall businesses and to bring awareness to the need for us all to think local in order for our communities to thrive. The official kick-off was held on Saturday, June 28th with local...

“If you can’t beat’em, join’em!”

The old man in the hat Politics is always a little strange. Lately it has been downright weird. If I understand the situation correctly, the leader of the federal Liberal party is being castigated by our morally superior Conservative Party of Canada for….wait for it……for earning money outside the...