Chronological Index of Ensign
Articles for
July of 2003
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- Gazebo
- Thursday
July 3, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
A vast expanse of lawn may have some interest but its function is dubious. A Quill
Lake family have a solution put a point of interest on that big lawn, something that
will be pleasing to the eye and something that invites involvement.
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- Is Bush not technically untrue, or is
he just a liar?
- Thursday
July 3, 2003
by: Mario deSantis
The references on this story indicate the extent to which journalists and doubters
have gone to realise the fabrication of Iraq evidence of weapons of mass destruction.
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- A week of taxing news for
working stiffs
- Thursday
July 3, 2003
by: Walter Robinson
While we hear of wild expense account spending, Manley tells us about the budget
surplus despite the "perfect storm" and then we discover Tax Freedom day
is on day later than last year.
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- Beef about U.S.
beef
- Friday
July 4, 2003
By: Rebecca Gingrich
Here is something you can do, after reading both Rebecca's letter to the ministers
of Agriculture and Health you too might want to make a recommendation of your own.
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- Paul Martin and Harry Potter
- Friday
July 4, 2003
by: Rudy Fernandes
The man is a Wizard, absolutely no doubt about it as the press and media have fallen
under a spell and the support of terrorist groups, off shore banking and his company's
continued pocket filling at the public's expense all are invisible and ignored.
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- Automated Sprinklers
- Saturday
July 5, 2003
by: Kevin McIntyre
Fidling with sprinklers, getting your feet wet and making a general mess is how I
water the garden but Kevin has put together a system that involves going out on the
deck and selecting the appropriate valves, job done. All for $150.
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- Duet
- Saturday
July 5, 2003
by: Mark Alan Whittle
A story of a little boy who meets Orca and somewhere their minds and voices met.
This page includes an example of Killer whale singing but requires QuickTime
to be heard.
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- West Nile Fear
Ver
- Sunday
July 6, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
Birds are testing positive as far West as Delorain in Manitoba, it is the season
for a very dangerous virus to move West.
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- Bringing administration of
justice into disrepute
- Sunday
July 6, 2003
by: Joe Hueglin
The gun registry legislation has come into effect six days ago and no one can find
value or saftey in the massive amounts of money spent on this exceptionally silly
programme. Joe Hueglin questions the damage this programme is doing to the whole
of Canada's justice system as it devalues both the courts and the respect Canadians
normally demonstrate for the laws of the land.
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- The regressive streamlining administration
of the Insurance Industry
- Sunday
July 6, 2003
by: Mario deSantis
To make up for stock market losses Canada's Insurance industry is cutting service
and raising premiums all a part of their "streamlining" process.
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- The road, the wind and the weather
- Monday
July 7, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
A short photo essay of the sky scapes from Winnipeg to Tisdale last night.
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- The Greenwater
Report
- Tuesday
July 8, 2003
by: Gerald Crawford
Its been raining at the park and Gerald has been out checking out the surrounding
communities. Besides telling us about a reunion he gives us the details on fishing.
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- Hello Mr. Robinson:
Canadian Walter Robinson kisses the Bush Assets
- Tuesday
July 8, 2003
by: Mario deSantis
Many think that just cutting down on the size of government would make things better.
Mario deSantis presents quite a different argument and it is illustrated by a shocking
graph that shows the growth of jobs under the various American presidents in the
past and not since the thirties has the American economy done as poorly as under
George W. Bush.
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- Summertime reality TV (Episode
1): Survivor - taxpayers on CCRA Island
- Tuesday
July 8, 2003
by: Walter Robinson
This is an interesting take on the tax situation in Canada, instead of focusing on
the way the Canadian middle class has lost much of its earning power Mr. Robinson
concentrates on the upper and lower scale of the income earners in this country who
now bare the burden of the economy because the once large middle class has been so
greatly reduced.
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- In Search Of Intelligent Life
- Tuesday
July 8, 2003
by: Ron Thornton
There is often cause for us to feel dissolutioned about the way things seem to be
going and this seems to be one of those days when Ron Thornton is having trouble
finding a silver lining.
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- St. Therese Park,
a place of peace
- Wednesday
July 9, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
Where Tisdale's hospital once stood the park with its walking pathes, flower beds
and trees is one of the best places in the whole town. Quiet and calm prevail on
its lawns and park benches as you can see in today's QuickTime Virtual Reality image
of the area. If you don't have QuickTime
download it, it is free and easy to install, once in your computer it does its
work without intrusion.
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- Understanding and Peace is a matter of
Integral Language, Dementia and War is a matter of Policed Brainwashing
- Wednesday
July 9, 2003
by: Mario deSantis
Fair warning, this is a complex story, but you will have to read it a couple of times
for the message to sink in and if you do not check out the reference to the Kuwait
parliament you will definitely be lost. No one ever said figuring things out was
going to be easy.
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- Missing Middle Class
- Wednesday
July 9, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
The constant complaining about taxes is simply dull and perhaps short sighted thinking
being expressed by those unable to see the big picture. We don't need to reduce taxes
we need more tax payers. We need income sufficient to afford the society our country
is more than able to provide every citizen of this country and this story spells
out a simple means to solving our problems.
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- The freer Free
Market salaries of Canadian senior public servants: The case of Canada
Post CEO Andre Ouellet
- Wednesday
July 9, 2003
by: Mario deSantis
The post office is raising the cost of a postage stamp by a penny but the boss of
the corporation, Liberal hack, Andre Ouellet is getting a pay raise to half a million
a year. Nice job.
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- Pike Lake Provincial
Park
- Monday
July 14, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
Only twenty minutes from downtown Saskatoon an oxbow in the Saskatchewan river amidst
sand dunes is the location of an interesting park that offers a haven for urban dwellers
and visitors alike. This story include a one megabyte QuickTime
Virtual reality image that is not visible without QuickTime being
installed in your computer.
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- The Greenwater
report
- Monday
July 14, 2003
by: Gerald Crawford
Boating, swimming, finding out of the way restaurants is all in a day's work for
our intreped Greenwater reporter as he gives us some tips on when to lower the motor
and what to watch for.
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- Bush in Africa:
Compassionate Protectionism?
- Monday
July 14, 2003
by: Mark Weisbrot
The United States President took five days to tour Africa yet after a year of promising
aid to assist in the AIDS epidemic no money has been spent. African countries spend
far more each year paying interest on debts to the IMF and World bank than they spend
on health and education.
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- Is President Bush lying? The
truth is in the eye of the beholder, think for yourself
- Monday
July 14, 2003
by: Mario deSantis
The American President and his staff are busy defending the use of a forged document
more than a year old claiming that Iraq was trying to purchase Uranium from Niger.
In the face of such incredible information you are being asked to simply think this
one through for yourself. But to help you look into it the references with this story
lay out the confusion.
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- Inch Worm
- Tuesday
July 15, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
When your brain is the size of a period at the end of a sentence it is a tough problem
to remember where you have been and wonder just where you should be going.
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- Canada Day at
Crooked Lake
- Tuesday
July 15, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
Colin Williams wrote to Ensign wondering about the images in the "Missing Middle
Class" story from Wednesday of last week. Well this is the answer as we have
some pictures of a backyard, actually a beach front, fireworks display at Crooked
Lake.
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- More Tax-Payers
- Tuesday
July 15, 2003
by: Richard Neuman
Richard Neuman gives us a pensive view of the way wealth and societal progress must
feed and nurture each other. He feels that in time the present political thought
will come around to a more socially aware perspective.
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- Shifting the blame for Bush's misstatement
in his State of the Union address
- Tuesday
July 15, 2003
by: Mario deSantis
The clouds of deceit roll in as the CIA takes the blame for the Bush State of the
Union speech error but other CIA people explain that the warning of authenticity
had been given and ignored. It all sounds a little late, the US public bought the
man's "weapons of mass destruction" song and dance and the invasion took
place, people died and debts pile up.
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- Advance Passenger Information / Passenger
Name Record Programme
- Tuesday
July 15, 2003
by: Rebecca Gingrich
Ottawa has been forced to knuckle under to adopt an identification programme with
all the markings of a typical Police State. But when we consider the government's
record in handling data such as gun registration things do not look promising.
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- Sky stories summer 2003
- Wednesday
July 16, 2003
by: Timothy Shire, Judy Shire, Kevin McIntyre and Doug Freestone
This web site has always been a place to look at sky pictures so we need not appologise
for these dramatic images taken over the past week. The leading image is of last
Thursday's clouds over the Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon.
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- And Bush's wars
continue as war is the ultimate cover up of Bush's lies
- Wednesday
July 16, 2003
by: Mario deSantis
This story discusses the web of deceit that is an everyday and expected behaviour
of the United States President. But there is more notice in the image that accompanies
the story is a picture showing clear violations of the Geneva convention.
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- The Convertible
syndrome
- Thursday
July 17, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
In a country where there are years when the weather is not good enough to find a
day to put the top down the idea of a topless car is like forbidden candy or like
winning the lottery dreams.
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- Were "consequences"
meaningful?
- Thursday
July 17, 2003
by: Joe Hueglin
A test for the Youth Criminal Justice Act came last week in St. Caatherines,
Ontario and things do not look promising. Joe wonders what message the judge's decision
on a drug dealer will have on the way young people regard and respect the laws and
conventions of Canadian society.
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- Summertime reality TV (Episode
2):Who wants to be a budget cutter?
- Thursday
July 17, 2003
by: Walter Robinson
This week Walter takes us to a game show setting to illustrate the problems related
to cutting back on the Federal government's monsterous budget. You need QuickTime
to hear the music on this page.
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- Tisdale Community
Gardens
- Thursday
July 17, 2003
by: Jacki Abraham
The community garden project is at work for its third year. Community assistance
is making this project a part of Tisdale's sense of support for all.
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- Bush's Slippery
Slope: Ending with impeachment?
- Thursday
July 17, 2003
by: Mario deSantis
Up until now there have been complaints and accusations but the bald face lie in
the State of the Union address has changed the tone of concern as Americans are beginning
to realise that maybe something should be done about the warrior president who lacks
fiscal responsibility.
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- Canadian Alliance slipping in Alberta
- Thursday
July 17, 2003
by: Jason Inness
The Canadian Alliance is perhaps the least credible political party since the Rhino
party yet it is the official opposition and enjoyed considerable support in Alberta,
Saskatchewan and a few other places. Though some of us consider their stone age mentality
as benign and sometimes cute, they continue to demonstrate that advanced mathematics
involves borrowing when subtracting and fractions are for college folks.
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- Annual storms rip across the prairie
- Friday
July 18, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
Last night warning and severe weather watch alerts were broadcast as a series of
cells marched across Saskatchewan. This page includes a QuickTime VR showing last
nights sky at sunset.
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- Greenwater Provincial Park a gem
- Monday
July 21, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
Each week Gerald Crawford tells us about life in around the fifth provincial park
in Saskatchewan but it isn't until you spend some time at the place do you discover
the remarkable beauty and outstanding outdoor setting that makes this one of the
most attractive parks in the province.
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- The Greenwater
Report
- Monday
July 21, 2003
by: Gerald Crawford
Gerald and Doreen have been wandering and this week's report is a photo essay of
their adventures and journeys. This edition of the "Report" has some truly
memorable images.
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- Memo to the Premiers: No
more tax collectors … thanks, but no thanks
- Monday
July 21, 2003
by: Walter Robinson
At the recent premier's conference in Charlottetown the idea of the provinces going
it alone to collect taxes was once more trotted out to show their displeasure with
Ottawa. Walter Robinson points out that it is not a sound idea and has no real merit.
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- The GREED of the Free Market is not a
matter of public or private services: SHIN and SAIC, Romanow and Robinson
- Monday
July 21, 2003
by: Mario deSantis
Guilt by association, at least motivation by association seems to be the underlying
theme as Mario reports on the cozy association Saskatchewan's government has had
with one of the world's leading arms dealers and developers.
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- Greenwater Highland trail
- Monday
July 21, 2003
by: Timothy and Judy Shire
Join us for a walk of about an hour and twenty minutes through forest, past some
swamps and up and over a hill or two. Sorry you can only see the pictures, the saskatoons
are not compatible with this medium.
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- Plymouth Fury,
1958
- Wednesday
July 23, 2003
by: R. W. Shire and Timothy Shire
What kind of world must it have been for there to have been a time when someone would
design a car that looked like this one. Definitely makes one think about the exuburance
and enthusiasm of the 1950s.
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- It's My Party, I'll Try If
I Want To
- Wednesday
July 23, 2003
by: Ron Thornton
This story outlines the basic issues that Ron Thornton feels are needed to make Canada
a fair and appropriate country.
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- The gospel of fairer taxes in accordance
with the preachers: Mr. Robinson and Friar Thomas d'Aquino
- Wednesday
July 23, 2003
by: Mario deSantis
The motivation behind the policies advocated by some of the "experts" needs
to be questioned. Mario suggests that the way of thinking may even be a problem as
the problem may not even be the problem.
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- Tisdale at 35'
- Friday
July 25, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
With only a little perspective things look a lot different. FTLComm is working on
a project to produce some special images for the Tisdale Town web site and you get
to see the work in progress.
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- The Greenwater
report
- Friday
July 25, 2003
by: Gerald Crawford
With hot summer weather Gerald is finding it hard to stay put as he goes camping,
but, he takes us along.
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- Our own understanding
is better than the managed objective truth: The 9-11 attacks, Al Qaeda
and Iraq
- Friday
July 25, 2003
by: Mario deSantis
American politicians are struggling with what constitutes the truth and what to do
about apparent deliberate attempts to give the public impressions of things that
are not even close to reality. This story includes some outstanding references and
needs your full attention.
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