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Wednesday, December 24, 2003 Ensign Front Page Volume 7, No. 144
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May the blessing of Christmas be with you all- Wednesday
December 24, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Charles Dickens captured the wonder of Christmas
in his "Christmas Carol" and we all remember the line from
Tiny Tim "God Bless us everyone."
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 Bringing Peace
at Christmas with our hopes and work
- Wednesday
December 24, 2003
by: Mario deSantis
Nipawin: A message of peace and hope.
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 Van versus wheel
and tire- Tuesday
December 23, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
Rose Valley : Trip from Winnipeg nearly complete when
a wayward tire torpedoes van early this morning.
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2000 Wednesday
- Overcast, Ceiling 21,000, Cirrus, visibility 15, - 2º, wind 10 knots at 180,
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* Timothy W. Shire - Christmas
Greeting 2003
* Mario deSanntis - Hope for common sense
* Ron Thornton - New advents |
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Tim's Tip of the Day
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| The New York Times reported today that the meat inspectors in the US only test a
fraction of the cattle that are unable to walk at the time of slaughter. The animal
that tested positive for BSE in Washington was processed for human consumption two
weeks ago. The Canadian cow with the disease was sent to a rendering plant. The Canadian
herd and all related were destroyed immediately, the US herd is being quarentined.
If you visit the United States take your food with you. |
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Kevin's find of the day
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 Layoffs
hit elves at Arctic SantaPark (PDF) Matti Huuhtanen of Associated Press filed
this story of a Santa amusement park in Helsinki Finland that has fallen on hard
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Ensign Notes
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| We will not post on Christmas day but will have some new stories on Boxing Day. |
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 The Greenwater Report- Tuesday
December 23, 2003
by: Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park: Things have warmed up out at the park while Gerald was
off on a hockey trip to Manitoba. But this week's report includes Fisherman's Cover
holiday hours and a salute to the new Sears outlet in Porcupine Plain.
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 The first hundred
years- Tuesday
December 16, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
Oshkosh Wisconsin: A hundred years ago powered flight began and it has been rising
ever since. We celebrate this occassion with a set of 29 pictures mostly from the
third decade of flight when it became a facility of life instead of a screwball experiement.
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 Christmas baking- Monday
December 15, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Of course you can go to the bakery but if you
want to give someone something that really means something, make it yourself. How
about some great cinnimon buns?
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 Judge Martin’s Cabinet on
the job titles and record, not on map locations- Monday
December 14, 2003
by: Walter Robinson
Ottawa: The very large government set forth by the new
prime minister has many wondering about costs. Knowing that the prime minister watches
the flow of money carefully he has served up a very large platter of government this
means he has two choices, either cut many existing programmes or follow the pattern
he has followed in the past creating excuses to slap on more taxes.
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 The Greenwater Report- Monday
December 15, 2003
by: Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park: Winter advances as Greenwater
folks get together for a pot luck, some fishing stories, and Porcupine's Bar is getting
ready to open.
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 The malfeasances of Bush's Free Market:
Halliburton's profits and failure to securitize the Iraqi Army- Monday
December 15, 2003
by: Mario deSantis
Nipawin: Something is very rotten in the state of Iraq
as Vice President Cheney who still gets $400,000 a year from his company Halliburton
each year is charging many times more than a reasonable profit for services and products
while the Iraqi Army looks to be very suspicious. Can anyone say "Vietnam?"
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 Cutting Edge Cutlery
Co.- Monday
December 15, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
Regina: Here are a set of pictures of a really unusual
shop in Regina's Victoria Square Mall.
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 Ups and Downs, What has been 2003 and what might be 2004- Sunday
December 14, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
Qu'Appelle Valley: Though it is still two weeks from
the end of the year this one is a tough one to call and today we do a little preliminary
to the annual New Year's prediction project.
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 A deeper Free
Market in Canada: Charest fights for his privatisation of Quebec- Sunday
December 14, 2003
by: Mario deSantis
Nipawin: It appears as though the government of Quebec
like that of British Columbia has begun a process of reducing the numbers of public
workers and reducing the earns of those still employed while moving more government
services into the private sector. The unfortunate facts are that there is no evidence
to support the economic positive affects of such action while at the same time the
public will be subjected to strikes and the kinds of problems that brought Ontario
situations like Walkerton and the inability of Toronto to deal with a medical crisis.
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 Not exactly a
thing of beauty- Sunday
December 14, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale:It is almost a month since Tisdale's Town council
decreed that the people of Tisdale no longer put their garbage in the garbage can
stands in their back yards by the alley but instead each garbage day take the cans
out to the front of their houses for curb side pickup.
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 Watson, the home
of the Santa Claus Day- Saturday
December 13, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
Watson: This unique little prairie town is all dressed
up for Christmas and we have some pictures to show you taken as a light snow was
falling and flakes melting on the windshield.
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Co-operation at Christmas.
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