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Friday, February 20, 2004 Ensign Front Page Volume 7, No. 186
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They just didn't nab him!- Friday
February 20, 2004
by: Edwin Wallace
Success : How soon we all forget. The years that
followed Grant Devine's defeat were years where the main Saskatchewan news stories
dealt with the latest criminal investigation of yet another member of the Devine
government. The kingpin of those cases was that of Deputy Premier Eric Bernsten.
Though Grant Devine was never officially implicated, as with the scandal in Quebec
of the Liberal's making, also begs the question, as to how could such things be going
on and the boss not knowing about it?
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 Grassroots mowed down
- Friday
February 20, 2004
by: Joe Hueglin
Niagara Falls : The Conservative Party's Interim Committee
chairperson Don Plett says that the committee wants to keep the party "pure".
Seems like the Reform/Alliance/Conservatives have held to their principles all along.
Stephen Harper was a declared Alberta Separatist who is seeking the
leadership of the party, Grant Devine is one of Canadians politicians who fought
and stood for Canadian Unity.
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 Bush’s tax cuts:
a reductionist economic policy for a reductionist thinker- Friday
February 20, 2004
by : Mario deSantis
Nipawin : What is so hard to confront is the realisation
that if we listen to what the US president and his government say it not only doesn't
add up it doesn't make any sense either.
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0900 Friday - Altostratos 8/8. statocumulus 3/8ths, Ceiling 4,000, visibility
15, -6º, wind 7 knots at 240º, altimeter 29.85 WeatherLog
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Today In Ensign
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* Edwin Wallace - They just didn't
nab him!
* Joe Hueglin - Grassroot
mowed down
* Mario deSantis - Reductionist
economy
* Timothy W. Shire - Chamber's new
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Tim's Tip of the Day
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| We often over estimate the extent of what leaders actual know and understand about
their work. "What did he know and when did he know it?" Most answers to
questions like that are already something we know, simply by checking what was said
at the time. Prime Minister Chretien pointed out that a few million missing dollars
is a small price to pay for a stable country. He did not say a hundred million he
said a few million, there is a good chance he knew, but like the rest of us, the
staggering amount would be as much a surprise to him as it was to us. Remember also
that Paul Martin thought the government did less than a million dollars worth of
business with his steamship line when it turns out it is more that $165 million.
It is far easier to tell the truth for most people than lie, remember knowledge is
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Kevin's find of the day
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 Half of all languages face extinction this
century (PDF) This startling NewScientist story is what many have feared
for some time. In Watson Lake Yukon of the two groups of local people the Tahltan
number some 750 people but in 1991 only 40 can speak the language. Scientists fear
humanity may suffer a serious loss with these languages as so much of culture and
knowledge is embedded in language. Also check the site on Nearly
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Ensign Notes
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| Two opposing views of Grant Devine's unacceptance. Edwin from his Saskatchewan point
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 Tisdale Chamber
of Commerce moves- Friday
February 20, 2004
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : The Chamber of Commerce has moved its office
from the town office to the Tisdale Mall.
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 It's Snowtime- Thursday
February 19, 2004
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : We are definitely into the typical March cycle
of weather disturbances as one snow fall comes just as another ends. Here is the
way things looked around Tisdale this morning with the snow falling.
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 Up to your eyeballs- Thursday
February 19, 2004
by : Dawn and Donna LaRochelle
Gravelbourg : All across southern Saskatchewan from
Weyburn to Swift Current the snow has filled in the farm yards. Here is a typical
farm yard near Gravelbourg.
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 The devil you
know or the devil you don't? The devil you don't know is looking better
everyday.- Thursday
February 19, 2004
by : Randy Kubik
Dorchester, Ontario : This is a message from an Ontario political leader who feels
that anybody but a liberal would do better. The sad situation that relates to the
savage abuse of public trust in the Quebec sponsorship scandal.
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 Le Festival du Voyageur- Wednesday
February 18, 2004
by: Cassandra Shire
St. Boniface : The season of winter festivals is beginning and here are some
pictures from Winnipeg with ice sculptures in the setting of the fur trading fort.
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 Spring Cleaning
Required To Remove The Stench Of The Mob Squad- Wednesday
February 18, 2004
by: Ron Thornton
Edmonton : The confidence we all have in government
chronically shaken as the spectacle unfolds in Ottawa it can be detected with the
nose from one end of the country to the other.
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 membership, constitution, who cares!- Wednesday
February 18, 2004
by : Ken Richardson
Bella Bella : The way the Conservative party was fashioned
seems to be right in step with the Liberal's conduct in Quebec. Rules and democracy
were and are simply ignored.
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 Have governments reduced their citizens
to Doublethinkers?- Wednesday
February 18, 2004
by : Mario deSantis
Nipawin : The frightening reality is that Orwellian thought, so much a part of the
1930s, that George Orwell dramatised in his novel 1984, seems like the environment
of today. War is peace, freedom is slavery and as this story points out the power
of "doublethink" is becoming common place.
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 The Greenwater Report- Tuesday
February 17, 2004
by: Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : Winter at the park and
in this part of Saskatchewan. Gerald shares a trip to visit friends in Saskatoon.
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 Let's do lunch- Saturday
February 14, 2004
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : A combination of St. Valentines Day and a
fund raiser for Telemiracle as TMSS students hold a box social.
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 A world of Newspeak:
socio-economic system for looking after number one and after profits- Saturday
February 14, 2004
by: Mario deSantis
Nipawin : Living in the approach of World War II George
Orwell wrote about a frightening world where the official line was accepted even
thinking against the government was a crime. As thing seem to spin further and further
beyond what could possibly considered a real world it looks an awful lot like the
world George Orwell was describing in his novel.
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 Marvelous Marvin- Saturday
February 14, 2004
by: Edwin Wallace
Success : The President of the Saskatchewan Wheat
Pool is retiring and its time for some parting shots at one of the people who
is responsible for destroying an outstanding co-operative and replacing it with a
worthless bunch of shares in a corporation that is doomed.
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 Premier's round table meeting
in Tisdale- Friday
February, 13, 2004
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Premier Calvert attends his second round table
meeting, this time here in Tisdale as he met with government, business and community
representatives to discuss issues facing Saskatchewan people in preparation for this
year's budget and legislative session.
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 Bolt gave out- Thursday
February 12, 2004
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : This is the scene yesterday morning as water
streamed out of the street. A bolt on a valve had rusted through and it was time
to dig today.
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Just before 0800 as the morning begins with the sun digging its way through high
overcast
and what looked like it could be snow but by mid day the clouds were gone and the
temperature hovered around 0º.
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