The Week of December 24 to 30, 2000

The Christmas Spirit Sunday December 24, 2000 Christmas is not shopping, Christmas is not stupid songs about reindeer and snowmen, it is about a genuine feeling, that fills and colours the wonder of life all around us.

Merry Christmas Monday December 25, 2000 Greetings to the readers of Ensign.

The Royal Winnipeg Ballet's Nutcracker Monday December 25, 2000 A life time experience, astonishing beauty, music that lifts you above this world and dance, dance of wonder and involvement.

Boxing Day Tuesday December 26, 2000 A shopping frenzy to get the best bargains a merchant driven phenomena.

Money Talks, Mandatory Voting and our Democracy Tuesday December 26, 2000 Mario deSantis explains the need for us to watch what politicians use as words to describe their actions and conditions.

Boxing Day Shopping Wednesday December 27, 2000 As Boxing day drew to a close we decided to venture forth and see how things were going, this is our report.

A Winter City Thursday December 28, 2000 A look around the streets of Winnipeg as we see how it deals with the season and how its people cope.

Normal Winter Driving Saturday December 30, 2000 The Department of Highways refer driving conditions as "Normal Winter Driving" conditions. Its a fact of Canadian life.

Productivity is the wrong thing to measure Saturday December 30, 2000 Mario deSantis gives us a hard look at the way economists see things and why they should clean their glasses.

The assembly line economics is obsolete Saturday December 30, 2000 This is a short article that needs to be digested carefully as Mario deSantis points out the underlying cause that explains the eratic behaviour in the stock market and commodities trading. If we have a knowledge economy supply and demand is no longer in effect.