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The Week of April 14 to 20, 2002
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 Alaskan Tanks- Sunday
April 14, 2002
Northern prepares shipment of eight tanks to Alaska via Seattle.
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 Doghide Spring 2002- Sunday
April 14, 2002
Once again we have photographed from the footbridge the Doghide river and railway
bridge using QuickTime virtual reality. This is a large download of 1.9MB and will
take some time to acquire using a dial up connection.
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 Hugo Chavez returns to his elected presidency:
a lesson of democracy and the lies of the Bush administration- Sunday
April 14, 2002
US support coup d' etat in Venezuela may never have happened but was a figment of
the White House's wishful thinking as president returns to power after a single day.
People of Venezuela jubilant.
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 Stuka - Schnauzer- Sunday
April 14, 2002
Perky and nibble Stuka is establishing himself as an excellent and fun pet.
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 Spring In LaRonge- Monday
April 15, 2002
With so little snow once warm this year's meltaway was about three days. This set
of pictures by Judy Shire tells the story of spring in Saskatchewan's frontier community.
The images appear in a slide show accompanied by Dave Brubeck.
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 The Greenwater Report- Monday
April 15, 2002
Spring has come to the park and so have the migratory birds. Fisherman's Cove is
getting back in shape and Gerry tells us about tipped trucks, snowcover and knives.
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 RM of Tisdale
Holds Official Opening of New Service Facility- Tuesday
April 16, 2002
Monday afternoon the public had a chance to inspect and participate in the opening
of the new shop for the RM as local government had a chance to discuss its achievements.
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 My Opinion- Tuesday
April 16, 2002
Kevin McIntyre has some interesting thoughts on the Prime Minister's new airplanes
as well as on how that measures up against other unpleasant leaders.
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 First Housing Start in 2002- Wednesday
April 17, 2002
A new basement was dug in the new subdivision yesterday as the 2002 construction
season begins.
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 Working for justice the American way:
The militarization of United States and the just war against the ICC- Wednesday
April 17, 2002
The United States has failed to sign on to the concept of an International Criminal
Court and that makes us wonder about some of the simple rhetoric of its leadership.
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 Big Auction - Big Crowd- Wednesday
April 17, 2002
Tuesday was the first big auction sale of the year.
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 The Example of the Federal Cabinet- Wednesday
April 17, 2002
Joe Hueglin weighs in with his interesting comments on the recent purchase by the
government of two new Challenger 604 aircraft.
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 A History Rich in Insight and Humour- Wednesday
April 17, 2002
Ron Thornton points how interesting and important history is with four great examples
as we have discovered how little the people of our country know about our past.
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 2002 Auditor General's
Report: Canada Heads for the Dustbin of History- Wednesday
April 17, 2002
Walter Robinson of the Canadian Taxpayer's Federation looks over the Auditor General's
report and considers some of the points made. This page includes actual links to
the report.
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 Time Was . . .- Thursday
April 18, 2002
Kevin McIntyre shares with us his concerns about the economic squeeze felt in modern
agriculture.
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 Preacher Berlusconi and the Gospel of
the Free Market in accordance With Bush- Thursday
April 18, 2002
Americans tell the world that they are the greatest nation in the world but their
environment is far from ideal suffering from massive poverty and trailing behind
all of the developed world in civilised behaviour. Italy seems to be falling for
American propoganda.
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 Friendly Fire- Thursday
April 18, 2002
We need to get some perspective on the sad lose of Canadian Forces last night near
Kandahar airport.
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 Italian General Strike of April 16, 2002:
No to Berlusconi's Labour Free Market- Thursday
April 18, 2002
Mario deSantis tells us the personal side of the general strike in Italy this past
week over the government intentions to reduce unemployment by forcing workers to
accept less for fear of being fired.
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 The Business - Agriculture- Friday
April 19, 2002
Yesterday Kevin talked about farming, today we talk about the economics of big agricultural
business.
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 Melfort Migrastory- Saturday
April 20, 2002
The massive flocks of Snow Geese and Black Brandts that usually stop over near Kinistino
have converged on Melfort this spring.
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 Is president Bush a double talker? Terrorism
or self-determination?- Saturday
April 20, 2002
The United States has spent most of its life trying hard not to understand the world
around and been enormously successful.
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 All Aboard- Saturday
April 20, 2002
Northern Steels tanks got on their way Thursday night on their long trip to the coast
and then North.
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 Tobacco Traffic with Bill Moyers and our
Governments- Saturday
April 20, 2002
Discovering how things are done often helps to understand the simple fact that few
things are just random but there is consicous effort and participation in things
that just should not be happening.
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