Chronological Index of Ensign Articles for January of 2007
The Greenwater Report   Wednesday January 3, 2007 by : Gerald Crawford Greenwater Provincial Park : Lots of people at the park enjoying the outstanding weather. Gerald gives us an update on snowmobile trails and ice fishing.	January 2007 Sun Mon Tues Wed Thur Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
No smoke: grain burner   Wednesday January 3, 2007 by : Edwin Wallace Success : The advancement of technology is not dependent upon some miracles of modern science but often upon putting the stuff about us into new applications. We have seen and reported on grain burning stoves here before but this one is a giant leap up as it vapourises the fuel dishing out a torch of flame.
The Greenwater Report   Monday January 8, 2007 by : Gerald Crawford Greenwater Provincial Park : Mild weather and the Cove has closed denying fuel and coffee for park regulars and visitors.   What is expected of the new Wheat Board CEO   Monday January 8, 2007 by : Henry Neufeld Waldeck : The Federal Minister of Agriculture fired the head of the Canadian Wheat Board what might the possible directives be for his replacement? Race is not the issue. Honouring contracts is   Monday January 8, 2007 by : Eugene Parks Victoria BC : A deal was made more than a century ago where by West Coast First Nations traded land for the right to harvest commerical fisheries. The Harper government does not want to honour the deal. NorthEast SaniSport / Inside Golf   Tuesday January 9, 2007 by : Timothy W. Shire Tisdale : A new sports business has opened in the Tisdale Mall as Yves Ollivier offers golf lessons, an indoor driving range and a sports equipment cleaning facility. Kingsley resignation   Tuesday January 9, 2007 by : Brian Marlatt White Rock BC : Canada's chief electoral officier has quit and there has been much speculation that his leaving of the position was not of his own choosing. Bit of a storm   Wednesday January 10, 2007 by : Timothy W. Shire Tisdale : We were warned yesterday and most of us laughted at the warning as Environment Canada is rarely right but this one arrived in spades. Conservative Party of Canada must be held accountable   Wednesday January 10, 2007 by : Eugene Parks Victoria BC : The Conservative Party is doing fast paperwork with receipts to cover up their violations of their own Accountability Act. Thoughts on the Canadian Federal Principle applied in the Context of Contemporary Debate   Wednesday January 10, 2007 by : Brian Marlatt White Rock BC : Canada is not a country made of ten sovereign states but was modelled on the United Kingdom when the United States were in the midst of a civil war. This story helps to explain what we are and why Mr. Harper has it wrong. Digging out   Thursday January 11, 2007 by : Timothy W. Shire Tisdale : Its remarkable as everyone seems to be like a bunch of scruffy dogs, shaking the snow off streets and driveways almost celebrating the passage of the first real storm of the winter. Update on cleaning switches   Thursday January 11, 2007 by : Jack Rusick Nokomis : Mr. Rusick brings us up to date on the business of keeping railway switches free of snow. Laurel Chelsberg, 2006 LEO Award winner   Friday January 12, 2007 by : Timothy W. Shire Somewhere in the Caribbean : Royal Bank Customer Service Representative Laurel Chelsberg was a recipient last night of the 2006 LEO award at a Gala event while on a cruise in the Caribbean. "Between the saddle and the ground, forgiveness sought, . . . "   Friday January 12, 2007 by : Joe Hueglin Niagara Falls : Conservative ministers have seen the light, so they say, about the dangers of a climate off kilter. Is anyone buying this story?
Tisdale to Honduras   Monday January 15, 2007 by : Rebecca Hankins-Vopni Tisdale : Here is a slide show running as a QuickTime movie to illustrate Tisdale, Melfort and Zenon Park to the folks in Central America.   Claims that "we've changed", real or rhetoric?   Tuesday January 16, 2007 by : Brian Marlatt White Rock BC : The Harper record on the environment is not good and we are now to believe that they have changed, this will require some evidence. Why I can't watch the NFL   Tuesday January 16, 2007 by : Michael Townsend Kamloops : Our intrepid reporter, Mike Townsend, got to meet and interview Grey Cup star Geroy Simon. Barley Plebiscite   Tuesday January 16, 2007 by : Richard Phillips Ottawa : The Executive Director of the Grain Growers of Canada expresses his and the associations delight with the decision by the Minister of Agriculture to hold a vote on barley marketing by those farmers who have grown barley in the past two years. The Greenwater Report   Tuesday January 16, 2007 by : Gerald Crawford Greenwater Proivincial Park : The big news as with the rest of the province was the storm. Gerald fills us in on the details at the park and the surrounding communities and backs up his story with some outstanding pictures of the event. White throated sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis)   Wednesday January 17, 2007 by : Helen Carson Crooked River : Though this is a common little bird in south eastern Saskatchewan it does not hang around in the winter but head off to a better climate for the winter. Make that a recommendation   Thursday January 18, 2007 by : Timothy W. Shirre Tisdale : Notice how that level of frustration seems to build just below the surface all of the time, here is a simple formula to make you feel just a bit better about the things over which you have no control.
SaskPower Natural Ice Championship   Monday January 22, 2007 by : Timothy W. Shire Weekes : Weekes hosted the provincial natural ice championship for women's curling this past weekend.   Looks like things aren't working out   Monday January 22, 2007 by : Timothy W. Shirre Tisdale : Hundreds of children go to school at the Tisdal Elementary school every day yet the sidewalks are under a foot of snow. The Greenwater Report   Monday January 22, 2007 by : Gerald Crawford Greenwater Proivincial Park : The big news as with the rest of the province was the storm. Gerald fills us in on the details at the park and the surrounding communities and backs up his story with some outstanding pictures of the event. The other side of the fence   Monday January 22, 2007 by : Stu Innes Regina : This web site has presented many articles attacking the Federal Government's attempts to quash the work of the Canadian Wheat Board. Here is a chance to hear from a farmer who shares a much different view. "New Government's" limited perspective   Tuesday January 23, 2007 by : Eugene Parks Victoria BC : If one comes from Alberta it is reasonable to think of your country only in Alberta terms but to be Prime Minister of the country requires a much broader and more flexible perspective. Leaking Dodge SX2.0   Tuesday January 23, 2007 by : Christine Gerry Vancouver : Back in 2002 this web site did a review positively praising the Dodge SX2.0. This reader tells how she likes the car but with each rain the passenger side fills up with water. She would like some suggestions as to what car of similar price would be a good replacement. Hoar-frost   Wednesday January 24, 2007 by : Timothy W. Shire Tisdale : Seventeen images of the pleasant display of frost that adorns our community today. Slow news day?   Wednesday January 24, 2007 by : Brenda Gabriel Tisdale : Tisdale's Elementary School principal reports that the school is not abandoning its students and the snow has been cleaned up. End of the mini-van; cross-over Equinox   Thursday January 25, 2007 by : Timothy W. Shire Tisdale : Ford and General Motors have dropped the mini-van from their production schedule replacing them with the so-called cross-over machine, the combination SUV-mini-van. Here is a review of Chevrolet's Equinox. Security and Prosperity Partnership   Friday January 26, 2007 by : Connie Fogal Vancouver : There is a good chance you have not heard about the SPP, an agreement between big business, the elite leaders and the background folks at the US Whitehouse. Essential its a plan to, without any democratic involvement, to slap all of North American into a single entity. This story is intended to give you the basics of the agreement which is well along its way.
Attack ads as diversion: A new low!   Sunday January 28, 2007 by : Eugene Parks Victoria : The Conservative introduced their attack ads ridiculing Liberal leader Dion. Mr. Parks points out that an election has not even been called and this is a first for a governing party in Canada to develop and use such negative adervertisements.   Minister Strahl's unsubstantiated words   Sunday January 28, 2007 by : joe Hueglin Niagara Falls : The minister of agriculture in his campaign to dismantle the Canadian Wheat Board continues to make statements without any substantial backing to support his claims. The Greenwater Report   Monday January 29, 2007 by : Gerald Crawford Scottsdale Arizona : The Crawfords are on a bus tour of Las Vegas and now in Arizona, from the look of things they are having a great time. Gerald is over eating but taking lots of super pictures. Abottsford Bike Show January 27, 2007   Tuesday January 30, 2007 by : Mike Townsend Kamloops : Here is a remarkable slide show of the Abottsford Bike show as you can see the motorcycles and exhibits through Mike's camera. Marketing boards on the table when CWB single desk gone?   Tuesday January 30, 2007 by : Joe Hueglin Niagara Falls : All this time we thought it was idealogy and now Joe has discovered that the campaign to destroy the Canadian Wheat Board is just the boys in Ottawa doing what the boy in Washington wants. Growing organic   Wednesday January 31, 2007 by : Timothy W. Shire Tisdale : Farming for all of my life time has been a marginal business at best and in the last few years most farmers would be happy even to break even. Its time to consider "value added" options and on of those options is proving to be economically viable and certainly a hit in the grocery stores and that is becoming an organic farm operation. Difficult to get into be here is a way of jump starting into this form of agriculture. Ominous   Wednesday January 31, 2007 by : William Dascavich Edmonton : If you saw Anderson Cooper last night or over the past few evenings one wonders what is cooking in the US government. Does anyone remember the "Gulf of Tonkin Incident" which actually never did take place but was the excuse for putting forces on the ground in Viet Nam? Important to note that the image used here was staged for photographers.