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.

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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.