| Chronological Index of Ensign
Articles for
September of 2006
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 Busy little intersection -
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- Monday
September 4, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : While waiting to catch a moving picture of a big truck I shot a short ten minute video of the intersection of highways 3 and 35. That video is pretty revealing and is part of this story.
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 The Greenwater Report -
- Monday
September 4, 2006
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : More on the Crawford's recent trip to Alberta as we catch up on friends and family.
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 Busy little intersection: part 2 -
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- Tuesday
September 5, 2006
by : Shawn Ratushniak
video by: T. Shire
Tisdale : And then some, Shawn works within constant sight of the junction of the two highways and jotted down notes on the traffic one day, this will surprise you. This story also includes another ten minutes of corner traffic condensed to thirty seconds.
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 Taste, touch, sight, sound. . . -
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- Wednesday
September 6, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Reality, even awareness, taxes the very limits of our senses, each step forward in science and in art reveal vast new concepts we had never ever considered before.
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 Big Truck: Perkins -
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- Thursday
September 7, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
images by : T. shire & Jo Lukinchuk
Tisdale : To us this 94 wheelled giant is a remarkable sight but it is just everyday stuff for the Northfield Minnesota trucking company. This sort of thing is what Perkins does, in a rather big way.
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 Water Treatment Plant making progress -
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- Friday
September 8, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Not the kind of spectacular project that was anticipated the buidling of the new water treatment plant has been a limited skilled tradesman affair that has just ambled along out there behind the trees.
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 Bravado, Bluff or Blarney? Reform-Party Policy Visits the Senate Committee-
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- Friday
September 8, 2006
by : Robert Ede
Thornhill, Ontario : Prime Minister Harper and his former Reform/Alliance government seem to have a very poor understanding of both the present constitution and how changes might correctly be made to the system. Mr. Ede attempts to set them straight on the finer points of Canadian constitutional law.
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 First Paint -
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- Friday
September 8, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : The trees are once again turning colour, here are some pictures of the process and some thoughts on what it could mean to us.
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 There is no such thing as limited war -
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- Monday
September 11, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : What happened five years ago will be discussed for perhaps another hundred years and the response to what happened is changing the attitudes and the concepts all people have about conflict, big or small. Today we discuss this change and try to deal with what we are now accepting as appropriate behaviour.
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 Afghanistan -
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- Monday
September 11, 2006
by : Bev Currie
Swift Current : Here is a very simple but also very convincing argument in favour of an immediate withdrawal of Canadian Forces from Afghanistan.
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 House number six gets underway -
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- Tuesday
September 12, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : With a fair number of houses on the market the number of housing starts in Tisdale has been a little slower than usual this year but today number six had its foundation poured.
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 There is no such thing as a war on terrorism -
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- Wednesday
September 13, 2006
by : Mario deSantis
Prince Albert : Five years since the 9/11 attack and the world is still shuddering from the event. Today Mario deSantis returns to this web site to give us some insight into the misleading language that is intended to mask the actions that have been taken in the intervening years.
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 We have to talk about it -
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- Thursday
September 14, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : The attack at Dawson College in Montreal is remote to our lives here in Tisdale, or is that the case? Radio, televsion and the news papers all have focused on this event today and at coffee it was the topic of conversation for all. Let us examine why we need to talk about an incident like this and what is gossip anyway?
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 2006 Hobby-class Winner -
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- Friday
September 15, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : The 88 car and Fred Pask have won this year's Hobby class championship for the Tisdale Motor Speedway's 2006 season.
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 The Greenwater Report -
- Tuesday
September 19, 2006
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : Gerald had some communications difficulties and this is last week's report but it did not arrive until this Sunday. Time to talk about the harvest.
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 Fly the flag -
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- Thursday
September 21, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Being Canadian is something we are all happy to be and many millions of people around the world wish they too were Canadian but its time to consider just what that means. Justice O'connor's demands that we address the wrong doings he discovered in his inquiry into the Maher Arar affair.
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 Bush's Government: An Unlearning and Disabled Organization-
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- Thursday
September 21, 2006
by : Mario deSantis
Prince Albert : In this story Mr. deSantis explains the learning process and how the US presidential government seems immune to the idea of learning as it goes along.
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 The Greenwater Report -
- Thursday
September 21, 2006
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : Apparently it rained some at the park as Gerald measured nearly six inches. There's news about the Cove and the Crawfords are looking to move to the city. The Crawford Report has a nice ring to it.
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 Orthodoxy of Religions versus Commonality of Religions-
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- Thursday
September 21, 2006
by : Mario deSantis
Prince Albert : An academic speech by the Pope sparked riots and protests throughout the Moslem world this past week. Mr. deSantis wonders at the failure of language and the failure to even make an effort to understand something of the basic concept of the "golden rule".
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 Can Am Bowl X -
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- Friday
September 22, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Kelliher : Though this event took place back on July 8th, this year's football season is in full gear and this international celebration of six-man football is definitely worth thinking about and worthy of praise to the organisers who have for ten years promoted the sport in the Western states and in Saskatchewan.
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 Jessica Lake, Whiteshell Provincial Park
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- Friday
September 22, 2006
Images by : Andrew Shire
Jessica Lake : This is a stark set of images of the Lake of the Woods area of eastern Manitoba with its outcrops and seemingly endless clear sky.
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 Lutheran fall rummage sale -
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- Friday
September 22, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Here is a look at one of the big sales of this season as the Lutheran Church holds their fall sale. Sale continues until noon Saturday.
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 Site ready for new triplex -
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- Saturday
September 23, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : An old house and garage were taken down this past week to make way for the construction of a new triplex.
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 Bush's Military Industrial Complex: More wars for Profits-
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- Saturday
September 23, 2006
by : Mario deSantis
Prince Albert : As a part of NATO Canada is involved in the war in Afghanistan and a war that was begun as a public relations exercise involving the 9/11 attack now it appears it is a war that can not be won militarily and we need to consider why this war and the one in Iraq were begun and why they continue.
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 Orange trees, lead sky -
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- Sunday
September 24, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Byorkdale : WE drove out to Porcupine Plain yesterday and the trees are in full fall colour unfortunately the sky was in full fall colour of its own, drab, dark and foreboding.
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 The Greenwater Report -
- Sunday
September 24, 2006
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : News about the upgrades to the Cove and the Almi campground has been sold. Gerald is having to clean up in preparation for moving to the city and he has negatives, more negatives and more negatives.
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 Up Needle Peak -
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- Monday
September 25, 2006
by : Michael Townsend
Kamloops: Sunday was sunny in Kamloops so here is your chance to climb along with Mike Townsend up a mountain.
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 Fall in Tisdale -
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- Tuesday
September 26, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : The has a fall smell to it and the north wind is pleased with itself as the leaves turn colour and many have already blown away. It is definitely fall.
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 St. Matthew's fall sale -
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- Wednesday
September 27, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : The Anglican fall rummage sale begins at 9:00 tomorrow morning and here is a preview of what is on for this season's sale.
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 Bush Didn't Try to Get Bin Laden and 9-11 Was a Consequence-
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- Wednesday
September 27, 2006
by : Mario deSantis
Prince Albert : Sunday Fox news tried an ambush on Bill Clinton blaming him for the Bush administration's failure to be prepared for the 9/11 attack. Mr. deSantis points out that the real issue was not Clinton but Bush doing worse than nothing.
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 Yesterday and today -
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- Thursday
September 28, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Dreary yesterday morning and this morning as well wih a bit of drizzle but late afternoon things really picked up. This is a photo essay to give you some feel for each of these two days, yesterday morning and this afternoon.
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 Tisdale Elementary celebrates Terry Fox -
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- Friday
September 29, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Jo Lukinchuk caught the action as the Terry Fox march began in front of the hospital this afternoon.
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 Is it just me ??? -
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- Saturday
September 30, 2006
by : Edwin Wallace
Success : Sometimes we have to just wonder what the heck is going on. Edwin looked at today's headlines in the New York Times and is shaken by the headlines. We have them here for you to consider.
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 Why the big hurry? -
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- Saturday
September 30, 2006
by : Henry Neufeld
Waldeck : In a good crop year farmers are luck to break even but most of the time things aren't perfect and farm income is marginal at best. Yet the federal government is hell bent on dismantling one of the few institutions that improves farm income.
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 Alberta Independence? Quebec Separation? An Autonomous City of Greater Toronto?-
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- Saturday
September 30, 2006
by : Robert Ede
Thornhill Ontario :Albertan's constant complaining over the inequalities of the way the country is run are to put it mildly a bit tiresome. After checking out Professor Leon Craig's do it yourself remedy for confederation Mr. Ede makes a much more startling and workable suggestion.
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