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The Week of July 7 to 13, 2002
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 Telling A Story
With Pictures- Sunday
July 7, 2002
The process of creating a video continues as we lay down the images that will unfold
as a story. A work in progess
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 If the Present
is today's move into the Future, things don't look good!- Monday
July 8, 2002
Two hours at a Winnipeg emergency waiting room and I have some serious anxiety.
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 The Greenwater Report for July 8, 2002- Monday
July 8, 2002
Summer is great at Greenwater as the berries don't match the weather. The Cover is
nearly finished, the gas lines are going in and we are looking forward to Saskatchewan
Express.
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 Questions That
Must Be Answered- Monday
July 8, 2002
Right Honourable Joe Clark points out that while parliament is not in session the
responsiblity for demanding that the government allow the auditor general to do her
work is with the public.
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 Cruisin' Sunday Night- Monday
July 8, 2002
A mating ritual, a kind of parade to determine pecking order, perhaps all of that
and more determined for each individual who is there to drive, ride and look.
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 Regina's Flatland
Festival 2002- Monday
July 8, 2002
Ben Checkowy was on hand to capture the stage side action at this year's great music
festival.
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 Portage la Prairie
At Noon- Wednesday
July 10, 2002
A bell rings in the tower of Portage la Prairie's town hall to herald the mid day.
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 Showdown No Place
of Speechmakin'- Wednesday
July 10, 2002
Chretien, Martin, Clark and Harper all show up at Calgary's Stampede. Martin challenges
Prime Minister Clark pushes a stalled car and Harper watches.
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 Scrutiny Needed To Justify Means- Wenesday
July 10, 2002
Liberal members of hearing committee put a stop to future testimony after two civil
servants report that they did nothing wrong. Mike Reilly shares the gerneal opinion
that this doesn't look good.
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 The Pervasive lack of critical thinking:
the Canadian dollar is up as health and water are being enronized- Wednesday
July 10, 2002
Mario deSantis is trying to make some sense of a senseless world where education
becomes learning, water becomes a commodity and the economy is an illusion.
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 In Praise of the
57 Chevy- Thursday
July 11, 2002
Perhaps one of the best cars made as its popularity and influence remains unchanged
through the decades.
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 The Silver Anniversary
of My 21st Birthday- Thursday
July 11, 2002
Ron Thornton considers his remarkable good fortune as he compares his life to the
two time Oscar winner Tom Hanks from Oakland California.
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 The Little World- Friday
July 12, 2002
The shopping mall is a curious phenomena, perhaps a market but perhaps something
quite different.
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 Mid July Heat Wave- Saturday
July 13, 2002
It showered this morning but the heat rapidly vapourised what little rain fell as
July continues, hot and dry.
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 Corruption in
Corporate (North) America: the sky is truly falling, trust no one- Saturday
July 13, 2002
What kind of talk is this? The US president spouting off about corporate responsibility
when he and his vice president have shown such a remarkably bad example when in business
themselves that no one can keep a straigth face with this story. Mario deSantis gives
us some interesting and factual input into the issue with absolutely outstanding
reference that will help you to understand what is at steak here.
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 Which comes first, party or position?- Saturday
July 13, 2002
Liberal Members of Parliament have no interest into looking into money handed over
to Quebec ad agencies for nothing, to them the inquiry is an annoyance and they have
ended it. Joe Hueglin feels quite differently.
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 Butting In and
Killing the Cat- Saturday
July 13, 2002
Ron Thornton figures that city government might apply themselves to more serious
issues than cats and public smoking.
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 A Thought on the American Free Market:
The Gospels of GDP and Economic Productivity- Saturday
July 13, 2002
When we look and listen to what is said about the economic system of this age you
really have to wonder if common sense has been left somewhere or that logic is no
longer important. Mario deSantis points out how things not only do not add up but
actually are opposite to reality.
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