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				- Tisdale Mall comes of age
 
				- Saturday
 
				November 16, 2002 
				Time to mark the mall's eighteenth anniversary as merchants and customers enjoy some
				cake and share some smiles.
			  
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				 Kyoto Ugly:
				Protocol to cost $2,700 per Canadian family 
				- Saturday
 
				November 16, 2002 
				The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has completed a study that indicates the Kyoto
				Accord could cost each Canadian family $2,700. 
				 
				This story was not posted as its support material fails
				to be available.
			  
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				 Adjusting: Always adjusting 
				- Friday
 
				November 15, 2002 
				The question is: What is like in Tisdale today? The answer today and every day, adjusting,
				always adjusting. This story includes a flash image of downtown.
			  
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				 Fascism is here
				to cut costs, save money and save lives? The creation of 850,000 jobs
				in the Bush Administration 
				- Friday
 
				November 15, 2002 
				Little by little the affects of September 11, 2002 are moving through our society,
				border tension, American Homeland Security and what's this high tech World War II
				Germany like identification cards for Canadians. The discomfort grows and this is
				a warning.
			  
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				 Taxing Questions 
				- Friday
 
				November 15, 2002 
				Rebecca Gingrich is alerting us to a rather inappropriate tax on a tax situation
				that promises were made about and appear to have been unkept.
			  
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				 Habitation Fog in November 
				- Thursday
 
				November 14, 2002 
				Unusually low temperatures in the northern grain belt this year and today something
				we normally only see in late December or January.
			  
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				 Music Pick Me
				Up 
				- Thursday
 
				November 14, 2002 
				This story began as a simple editing exercise of a piece of music but lead to a discussion
				on one of the most popular music artists of all time. This story will autoload two
				pieces of music neither are long but require QuickTime to play as streaming
				audio tracks.
			  
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				 The Road to War 
				- Thursday
 
				November 14, 2002 
				Richard Neumann explains the scenario as the UN moves into the inspection process
				of Iraq and outlines what looks like the reasonable expected circumstances.
			  
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				 SGI's No Fault Insurance, and now Tort
				Coverage: the work of the experts 
				- Thursday
 
				November 14, 2002 
				Mario deSantis asks us to look critically at the attitude and behaviour of the government
				operated insurance company which seems to be denying what is pretty widely known
				to understand its outrageous activity in the past.
			  
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				 Random: The impossible occurrence 
				- Wednesday
 
				November 13, 2002 
				Neither mathematical nor philosophically possible, yet we have this unusual idea
				that chance plays some part in reality.
			  
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				 Confusion about debt repayment 
				- Wednesday
 
				November 13, 2002 
				We welcome Member of Parliament Scott Brison, conservative finance critic to this
				web site as he expresses his concern about the federal government's accounting practice
				of taking employment insurance premiums and applying them to the National Debt.
			  
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				 A personal abuse of the Bell Curve in
				Education: Is learning associated to the Bell Curving of the marks? 
				- Wednesday
 
				November 13, 2002 
				Mario deSantis tells us about the ways the good ole' Bell Curve can be used to create
				some distortions.
			  
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				 Exceptionality: What is not average? 
				- Tuesday
 
				November 12, 2002 
				Parents really need to think about what words like exceptional, average and special
				education mean. Educators and politicians toss these words around and the public
				gets sucked into a vortex of abnormal thoughts.
			  
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				 Canadian Taxpayers
				Federation presentation to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance 
				- Tuesday
 
				November 12, 2002 
				Last Friday Walter Robinson of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation made a speech in
				Montreal to the finance committee making recommendations with regard to the upcoming
				budget. This text is the content of his speech but there are direct links to the
				complete sixteen page written submission as well.
			  
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				 Tisdale marks Remembrance Day 
				- Monday
 
				November 11, 2002 
				This town like all others in the country take a moment to commemorate the men and
				women who have served and so many to did not survive the two great wars and other
				conflicts since around the world.
			  
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				 Lest we forget 
				- Monday
 
				November 11, 2002 
				We are fortunate today to be able to read about the story of one Canadian who served
				in both the First and Second World War. Ron Thornton brings the perspective of the
				people who were there and some lived while others did not but here are their stories.
			  
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				 The Greenwater
				Report for November 11, 2002 
				- Monday
 
				November 11, 2002 
				Gerald Crawford is off on a bit of trip but we still have is report for this week
				as we discover the geese have left and the beaver are still chomping through the
				woods.
			  
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				 What is this? 
				- Sunday
 
				November 10, 2002 
				This par of unusual object turned up in some stuff from a Rummage sale just what
				do you think they might be?
			  
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				 SWP6 on the way
				down 
				- Sunday
 
				November 10, 2002 
				This short story includes a series of images that were recorded in Thurnder Bay almost
				three years ago but are remarkable as they capture the destruction of a huge grain
				terminal on the Thunder Bay waterfront.
			  
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