The Mario deSantis Index page 4
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- Our financial speculators:
making money out of an optimistic view of the economy
- Friday
January 5, 2001
We need to see the recent drop in US interest rates by the Federal Reserve Bank with
some perspective. Mario deSantis has taken time to give us his view on this unusal
move in the world's economy.
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- No more Common
Law and no more personal responsibility for our politicians
- Monday
January 8, 2001
What about Stockwell Day's recent law suit settlement? Mario deSantis gives us his
opinion.
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- A thought on imagining
and on predicting our reality
- Monday
January 8, 2001
Mario deSantis considers the way we think about things and the way we feel things
should be.
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- A review of the
book: "SYNCHRONICITY: The Inner Path of Leadership"
- Thursday
January 10, 2001
Mario deSantis presents a short but concise review of this widely acclaimed work
on responsible leadership.
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- Depravation of
Leadership, No Freedom and No Justice System in Saskatchewan
- Saturday
January 13, 2001
Mario deSantis voices his serious concerns about the apparent and growing restrictions
on the fundamental elements of life in our province.
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- The major problem
of health care: the open loop thing of our leadership
- Monday
January 15, 2001
Mario deSantis lets us in on some important new, the crumbling Medicare system does
not need fixing it needs "system thinking."
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- Stockwell Day's Settlement Increases The GDP
- Friday
January 19, 2001
Mario deSantis discusses the $60,000 settlement and $669,000 in legal costs paid
by the people of Alberta.
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- A looming recession
triggered by the big financial bubbles
- Friday
January 19, 2001
Time to check up on what the economists are saying about the possiblity of a recession.
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- Pension formula
plans:Are actuarial firms told to ass-u-me too much?
- Friday
January 19, 2001
Now its time that we had a little lesson the nature of pension plans. Mario deSantis
outlines the two basic plans and hints at what is really important.
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- The Myoptic View
of Honourable Maynard Sonntag
- Saturday
January 20, 2001
Mario deSantis takes issue with NDP leadership and Premier candidate Sonntag for
his false claims of Saskatchewan employment.
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- A Dramatic Scenario Of Saskatchewan Changing Demography:
The Aboriginal People Are Our Forgotten People
- Saturday
January 20, 2001
Without doubt the need to provide economic and social equality is overwhelming as
Mario deSantis spells out how great that need will become.
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- The open loop
thinking continues: Taking the Pulse of Saskatoon and Saskatchewan
- Monday
January 22, 2001
Mario deSantis takes exception to the useless and meaningless survey conducted by
the Star Pheonix and U of S done without considering the context.
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- Premier Roy Romanow's
Legacy: Nine Years of Lying!
- Wednesday
January 24, 2001
Mario deSantis reviews the lack of achievement during the Romanow years and assesses
them rather harshly. Part of being a politician is to distort reality in your favour,
it might be more polite to call that exaggeration but Mario calls it for what he
sees it as.
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- SGI Asks For Your
Opinion
- Friday
January 26, 2001
The Crown insurance company wants to know what you think, so here is your chance
to express yourself. A simple short survey that seems to want to know real answers.
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- Dr. Michael Rachlis
& Co. Have the paper solution to save medicare: Revitalizing Medicare:
Shared Problems, Public Solutions
- Friday
January 26, 2001
Mario deSantis expresses his concern about Health care experts and their lineal thinking
and failure to see the big interacting picture of reality.
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- Premier Designate
Lorne Calvert: The Working Man Way and The Coalition Church Way?
- Sunday
January 28, 2001
Mario deSantis attacks the new Premier's acceptance speech. You can see and hear
that speech on the CBC web site.
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- Sobeys' McEwan
Explains Reason to Quit Buying From Software Giant
- Sunday
January 28, 2001
Large Canadian food conglomerate dumps SAP after two years but government of Saskatchewan
agencies are still solid customers.
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- Who is right and
who is left, Lorne Calvert or Elwin Hermanson?
- Tuesday
January 30, 2001
Mario deSantis examines the political landscape as journalists attempt to quantify
the political leanings of various leaders. This exceptionally well documented story
gives some outstanding insight into the issue.
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- The reasonabe
reasons for the enrolment drop in our schools
- Tuesday
February 6, 2001
When bureaucrats and politicians tell us the facts there seems to be some deliberate
confusion. Mario deSantis is trained to read those inscrutable statistics tables
and today he explains what is happening.
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- It is not only
a matter of self(ish) rights, but it is a matter of whole rights
- Wednesday
February 7, 2001
Mario deSantis discusses the problems at Carry The Kettle.
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- Counterintuitive
Behavior of Social Systems and Research on Native Housing
- Thursday
February 8, 2001
Government to spend $1,000,000 on study of Saskatoon housing for aboriginal people.
Mario deSantis gives us his thoughts on the issue.
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- Rule of Law
- Friday
February 9, 2001
Mario deSantis keeps us up to date on the Grand Mere hotel affair that just will
not go away as opposition politicians hammer away and the Prime minister digs a hole
for himself with his comments.
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- Tobinism and Additional
Rules of Law
- Saturday
February 10, 2001
Brian Tobin defends the Prime Minister as the opposition raises more issues and questions
about the golf and hotel businesses in Shawinigan.
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- The Implausibility
of Professor Tom Flanagan
- Monday
February 12, 2001
Once again we have the "ugly Albertan" point of view as Mario deSantis
identifies the absurdity of Flanagan's premise.
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- Social and Economic Growth, Human Rights and Maintaining Property Rights
- Monday
February 12, 2001
There is an idological struggle in progress and Mario deSantis is alerting us to
this dynamic conflict.
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- Human Rights are
Before the Rule of Law
- Friday
February 16, 2001
Mario deSantis makes an outstanding case for us to consider the need to establish
human rights as primary before other laws and rulings.
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- A Reflection on Conventional Commerce and Tough Leadership
- Saturday
February 17, 2001
What's going on in business is not what should be going on as Mario deSantis discusses
the issue of reliance upon leadership and how companies count more than people.
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- We Must Stop Playing
the Politics of Free Market, Statism (and socialism)
- Sunday
February 18, 2001
Mario deSantis explores an interesting US web site that takes a crack at the UN's
affection for Canada.
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- Unearthing One
Example of Conventional Commerce:
Stockwell Day's Recycling of Litigation Money
- Monday
February 19, 2001
Grateful lawyers show their appreciation to Stockwell Day and the Canadian Alliance.
And we thought the Prime Minister was the only guy pulling funny things.
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- Common Law Versus SGI
- Tuesday
February 20, 2001
Mario deSantis directs our attention to the recent decisions by Provincial court
ruling SGI in contempt.
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- Economic Reflections:
Cretinism, the Threat of Tobinism and Old Joe Who
- Saturday
February 24, 2001
Decades of popular economic trends have done little to make positive gains of any
kind as Mario deSantis calls for a re-evaluation of the way we both evaluate and
do things.
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- The problem with
Free Trade: the structure of WTO and NAFTA
- Saturday
February 24, 2001
Mario deSantis lets us consider the concept of trade as we see it in practice and
try to understand the confusing thinking of British Prime Minsiter Blair.
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- The Truth on Free
Trade as told by some Freed Traders and economists
- Monday
February 26, 2001
Mario deSantis let's us look over some theories and facts on free trade so we can
make up our own mind about the process.
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- Business must
not be as usual and the "Dalhousie School" of Economics
- Tuesday
February 27, 2001
Mario deSantis helps us look at our present day political means of evaluating economic
success and suggest that we need a new yardstick.
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- Jean Chretien's
Slippery Slope and Francois Beaudoin
- Wednesday
February 28, 2001
Mario deSantis explains the ups and downs of the government's counter attack on Federal
Bank President Beaudoin.
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- Regina
Health District and Interim CEO Jim Saunders
- Thursday
March 1, 2001
Mario deSantis explains the management dementia system used to run Regina's hospitals.
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- A common economic
language: People come first
- Friday
March 2, 2001
Mario deSantis gives us some hint as to a basic troubling thought in our world of
today, everything seems to be described in financial and economic language simply
because that is what our society has come to emphasis.
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- Ralph Nader and
the GDP Canadian Saga
- Friday
March 2, 2001
Speaking in Toronto Ralph Nader discusses the main oponent facing our society, corporations,
Mario deSantis takes issue with this position.
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- Advice to Dr.
Barry Mclennan:
the integrity of research is more important than more research
- Sunday
March 4, 2001
Mario deSantis points out the extreme need for the University of Saskatchewan to
clean up its act with regard to research.
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- The Third Way
& Free Trade: The bounded rationality of Herb Gray and Tony Blair
- Tuesday
March 6, 2001
Mario deSantis discusses the odd considerations and fractionated logic used to promote
free trade initiatives.
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- Intelligence is
People and it is Democracy, Intelligence is not Multinational Corporations
and it is not Globalization
- Tuesday
March 6, 2001
Mario deSantis points out the importance of understanding what it means to be intelligence
and why humans as intelligent beings require democracy.
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- David Asper's
put up or shut up: from defending David Milgaard to insulting Joe Clark
and our journalists
- Thursday
March 8, 2001
David Asper, VP of Global West the company that owns most of Canada's newspapers
takes the unusal option of voicing his support of the PM after his own journalist
had lead the main attack.
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- The disgrace of
the Residential School Programs:
The initiative of lawyer Tony Merchant versus the work of our no-fault government
- Saturday
March 10, 2001
Mario deSantis points out how important the Service Tony Merchant and his law firm
are doing for the people of Canada.
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- Profits
don't come before people
- Friday
March 16, 2001
Mario deSantis reports his concern about Toronto journalist support of intellectual
property rights.
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- Ken Fyke's rediscovery
of the simple whole truth: our health is more than spending more health
money
- Wednesday
March 21, 2001
Mario deSantis voices his comments about the pronouncements by Ken Fyke's.
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- Joe Clark Demands
A Public Inquiry:
- Sunday
March 25, 2001
Mario DeSantis presents us with a short and simple demand for Joe Clark's inquiry
to go ahead and get to the bottom of the Chretien scandal.
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- Prime Ministers
1993 Sale of Golf Course
- Wednesday
March 28, 2001
Mario deSantis offers us some important details about the Prime Minister and his
sale of golf course shares so that when you read this you will begin to understand
that this is a very troubling issue.
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- Something is terribly
wrong, with the system and with Jean Chrétien
- Friday
March 30, 2001
Mario deSantis discusses the underlying and basic distrust the Chretien is producing
in Canada's political climate. This is a thought provoking and thoughtful consideration
of the problem.
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- Globalizing our economies and manufacturing our justice
- Saturday
March 31, 2001
Mario deSantis lets us consider some of the difficult ramifications of the federal
court judgement in favour of Monsanto and against Bruno farmer Percy Schmeiser.
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- Lack
of Democracy: Institutional Corruption, Justice and Punitive Damages
- Monday
April 2, 2001
Mario deSantis laments the progressively curtailed version of Canadian Democracy
and suggest some ways of reversing the trend.
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- Present Economic
Globalization: Its Not abour free trade but about patents and copyrights.
- Monday
April 2, 2001
You need to read this article carefully because it explains a lot about the protests
we have seen and the odd proclaimations of politicians. Mario deSantis has given
us an important piece of vital information in this story.
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- Professor Jack
M. Mintz and Globalization:
another sanctimonious leader joins the ranks of Jean Chrétien and Roy Romanow
- Thursday
April 5, 2001
Mario deSantis lets us think through the economic issues that have become so much
a part of modern politics and contrast them with the econmic principles of Paul Romer.
( Paul Martin also discussed this topic yesterday in his press conference in Toronto)
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- Effects of Globalization
in Canada and Saskatchewan:
Ossified Leadership and a Downsizing Economy
- Friday
April 6, 2001
With confusing employment statistics what does globalisation mean to us in our day
to day world. Mario deSantis warns that is means less, less of everything.
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- Massachusetts
Institute of Technology:
the Economics of Ideas and the Public Domain Economics
- Monday
April 9, 2001
You have to really think about this radical concept, is it time to make sure that
information and learning are for everyone, free and without copywrite? Superior article,
read this carefully.
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- Quality of life
is not economic growth but democracy
- Tuesday
April 10, 2001
Amartya Sen won the Nobel Prize, if you know nothing of him here is an outstanding
introduction to one of the great thinkers of the modern era.
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- Democracy is not
a matter of capitalism or communism:
it is the shared will to eradicate poverty and to get a continuous education
- Tuesday
April 10, 2001
Mario deSantis helps us think through the natural consequences of uncontrolled corporate
power and the mighty need to educate and address the issue of global poverty.
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- Ken Fyke's prescription
to cure health care: more downsizing and more phony savings
- Friday
April 13, 2001
The editor of Ensign has been to emotional to even discuss the Fyke report, but Mario
deSantis has been able to put it in perspective and explain what this report means
and why it like other initiatives in the past will not produce successful results.
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- Effects of Fyke's
Perscriptions:
- Saturday
April 14, 2001
Mario deSantis shares some insight into the implusibility of the conclusions drawn
by Mr. Fyke's report on medicare.
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- Debunking Classical
Economics and the New Economics of a Human Voice
- Thursday
April 19, 2001
We are fortunate to have Mario deSantis with his background and experience to do
the research for us and show us what is going on with the theories that govern both
political and business decision making. This short article just points the direction
modern theory is going and the six references have the information a person needs
to sort out these basic and underlying concepts that shape our world.
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- Conflicts at the
Summit of the Americas in Quebec City
- Saturday
April 21, 2001
Mario deSantis gives us something to think about as we observe the outbreak of violence
in Quebec City.
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- Fyke's Report:
Supporting the Tacit Self-fulfilling Prophecy to Shrink Saskatchewan
to Greatness
- Sunday
April 22, 2001
Mario deSantis points out some fears that he shares with all of us about the dreadful
prospects for this province as its becomes less and less.
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- Lawrence Solomon
joins the Big Brains' Club headed by Roy Romanow
- Wednesday
April 25, 2001
Mario deSantis points out that National Post writer Solomon agrees with former Premier
Romanow's policies of extinguishing all but urban life in Saskatchewan.
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- The Health Care
Prescription:
A Change of Mind Set is better than Obsolete Leadership and Research
- Thursday
April 26, 2001
Mario deSantis discusses the overwhelming need to reform healthcare but to do so
by side stepping the mismanagement and poor leadership.
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- Fyke's Report:
A step forward to fraudulent studies
- Wednesday
May 9, 2001
Mario deSantis explains the problem of not understanding data so that decisions can
be made based on reality.
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- The Herd Mentality
of our health researchers
- Wednesday
May 16, 2001
Mario deSantis points out the trend for evidence based researchers to demand restructuring
of restructuring of restructuring of restructured health care.
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- The Fallacy of
Evidence Based Research
- Friday
May 18, 2001
Talk about "make work projects" instead of improving medicare we seem destine
to do more research.
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- North East Population
Study
- Monday
May 21, 2001
Mario and James deSantis have challenged us and the HSURC to consider the remarkable
nature of the population of this part of Saskatchewan and just looking over the tables
will give you insight and understanding of some of the serious demographic and social
issues they raise.
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- Statistical Research
and Today's Journalism
- Friday
May 25, 2001
Mario deSantis let's us in on the splish splash technique of using figures in a news
story.
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- Wheelbarrowing Our Population Study:
- Saturday
May 26, 2001
Mario and James deSantis give us some simple facts that give one pause when considering
the ramifications of these facts.
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- Elderly Population
Scenarios For North East Health District:
- Monday
May 28, 2001
Mario deSantis has plotted out the projects for aging population in the North East
Health district. This article gives us interesting insight into what numbers can
tell us.
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- Could there be
fraud in our socially and democratically contracted governments?
- Saturday
June 9, 2001
Mario deSantis wonders about the need to deceive and what it does to our system.
This story is really only a guide to the extensive and revealing links that are referenced
at the bottom of the page.
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- CUPE's Strike
and SAHO Pension
- Saturday
June 9, 2001
Some times there are deep and devisive causes for employers and employees to fail
to trust one another, this strike has some nasty under currents, Mario deSantis explains
one serious issue that needs to be resolved.
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- Canadian Politics
and Political Economy
- Monday
June 11, 2001
Mario deSantis points out the paradox of getting those who create problems to solve
them. To get the most out of this story be sure to check the references as they actually
carry the load of the argument presented.
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- The Spiraling
Cost of Downsizing Healthcare Workers
- Wednesday
June 13, 2001
Mario deSantis points out the incredible follie in overworking the medical and support
staff and thinking that this will save money. Be sure to check out the links that
Mario has provided with this story.
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- The Unpotency
To Look Into the Social Causes of Injustice
- Thursday
June 14, 2001
Please check out the various links and references has included with this editorial
as Mario deSantis leads up to consider the ramifications of government, not necessarily
directed toward assisting its citizens.
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- Common People
being squeezed by both governments and businesses
- Friday
June 15, 2001
Mario deSantis points out the remarkable paradox of reduced government spending,
costing more and providing less.
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- Beginning to assert
Common Law over 'Regulatory Diligence'
- Sunday
June 17, 2001
Mario deSantis points out the importance of the independent judicary system to provide
some balance in the way governments and their agencies act.
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- Active Social Spending and Well Being Vs Taxes and GDP
- Wednesday
June 20, 2001
Take a look at the National Post's state of the Nation, Mario deSantis has a link
to this important document in this story and he takes you through his thinking on
what it means.
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- The root of our
economic and health care problems:
Our Leaders don't Walk their Talks
- Thursday
June 21, 2001
Common sense sometimes is so obvious and sensible we wonder why everyone has not
seen the problem from this perspective. Mario deSantis shares with us the simple
truth about the healthcare problem.
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- Unconventional
Thinking for a New Mindset to Solve Our Own Problems
- Tuesday
June 26, 2001
Mario deSantis asks us to think about our thinking, are we seeking alternatives to
the rut our society appears to have fallen into?
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- Canada and the United States: the 30% productivity gap
and the dollar devaluation
- Thursday
June 28, 2001
Mario deSantis applies some common sense and asks us to consider some of the confusing
and illogical conclusions economists and politicians toss out to explain the obvious.
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- Retired judge
Tom Wakeling and Honourable Doreen Hamilton:defending SLGA's double
standard at public expenses
- Thursday
June 28, 2001
Time to wonder about the way government acts and time to wonder what we should be
doing with plain dumb excuses.
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- Walkerton, Mike
Harris' GDP and Social Capital
- Saturday
June 30, 2001
Mario deSantis views the actions of the Harris government as far less than charitable
and demands that government re-acquaint itself with the reason government exists.
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- The Supreme Court
of Canada: A first step to curtail the lying of our politicians
- Wednesday
July 4, 2001
Mario deSantis points out that a new chapter in Canadian history has been written
as the Supreme court rules that a cabinet decision and committment must be upheld
to a Montreal hospital.
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- Using the word
of God to make money in a dysfunctional social system
- Friday
July 6, 2001
All seemed to need to justify what they do and what better justification that invoking
the supernatural. Mario deSantis strikes gold with this commentary.
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- A Message for
Gordon Nixon: Globalisation is not irreversible, and life is more important
than money
- Saturday
July 7, 2001
The head of Canada's biggest bank sees the world through the eyes of what is good
for his bank, Mario deSantis points out that this is a myoptic view of things.
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- Ottawa's spoonful
of sugar: A change of mentality is better than any Romanow
- Sunday
July 8, 2001
Mario deSantis explains that the Romanow commission on Medicare is doomed by the
man's former decisions and methods of operation.
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- Is GLOBALISATION weakening national sovereignties?
- Monday
July 9, 2001
Transnational corporations and globalisation have threatened every corner of the
third world to the benefit of themselves.
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- Class Action
- Tuesday
July 10, 2001
Advancing the rights of people against the Rule of Law of our Governments: Class
Action is tabled in Newfoundland and Tony Merchant contacts people in North Battleford
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- Bombardier and
Globalization: Externalizing Costs at the Expense of Governments and
Democracies
- Tuesday
July 10, 2001
Why is it so easy for governments world wide to find no difficulty in supporting
the interests of huge businesses?
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- Watch out for
the conventional wisdom of governments, judges and lawyers: Project
Loophole and Tony Merchant's pursuit of justice
- Wednesday
July 11, 2001
Mario deSantis discusses government action and legal struggles
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- The United Nations
is giving us too many numbers
- Thursday
July 12, 2001
Mario deSantis takes time to help us think over the rating system used by the UN
and tosses in some other factors we should all be thinking about.
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- Corporate Globalization:
David Korten Versus the Chretiens of the World
- Friday
July 13, 2001
Mario deSantis points out the cheerleader status of the press when it comes to the
free trade agenda.
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- Defending
our hegemonic democracies in Genoa
- Monday
July 16, 2001
Mario deSantis gives us some important background to the upcoming G3 summit in Genoa
as it braces for violence.
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- Dodge's hinted
solution to the productivity gap with the U.S.: drop the loonie
- Tuesday
July 17. 2001
Governor of the Bank of Canada wants to solve Canada's problems by adopting the US
dollar.
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- Ontario's Health
Care Report Card: Reward and Punishment
- Wednesday
July 18, 2001
Government by opinion poll, its not new but it is truly distasteful when carried
to such extremes. Mario deSantis gives us a glimpse of the wonderland of Ontario.
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- G8 Summit In Genoa: Defending Democracy With Missiles
- Friday
July 20, 2001
Mario deSantis chronicals his dissolutionment with the betrayal of trust and how
ultimately things seem to come down to violence.
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- Minister of Justice
Chris Axworthy :
Disguising a Racist Mentality with a Separate Justice System for Natives
- Friday
July 20, 2001
The failure of Saskatchewan's government to preserve equality has seen crime statistics
rise to the worst in the country, instead of accepting responsiblity the Minister
of Justice blames the victims for the situation.
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- G8 Summit in Genoa:
a reaffirmation of endemic violence in the New World Order
- Tuesday
July 24, 2001
Mario deSantis considers the violence both governmental and public confrontation
as a sad example of the sort of world we have become.
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- Health Public
Policies: Taxing fatty foods and exporting health hazards
- Thursday
July 26, 2001
Mario deSantis points out the nasty twist of corporation and government alliance
attempting to shift costs of healthcare while benefiting from abuse, after all as
the tobacco industry says dead people do not require Medicare
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