The Week of May 5 to 11, 2002

Saskatchewan School Librarians Hold Annual Convention
Sunday
May 5, 2002
The stuff of learning is to education what dirt is to farming and this weekend Saskatchewan's school librarians gathered in Saskatoon to provide each other with improved tools and awareness of the important role they play in the furthering of education in this province.
The Canadian Alliance - The Party Some Love to Hate
Sunday
May 5, 2002
Ron Thornton steps up to explain the underlying and fundamental principles of the Canadian Alliance party. The Alliance has been one of Canada's least alliance like political parties with its MPs and canditates often making very negative headlines while in the last election the party ran a very negative campaign. Now we find out the positive strengths of this political movement.
President George Bush's Free Market: A Fake Smoke Screen concocted by Corporate America and the Pentagon
Sunday
May 5, 2002
The American policies of free trade, free market and accellerated national protectionism are the primary contributors to holding back the thrid world from development.
The Times To Read
Sunday
May 5, 2002
A quick and painless way to update yourself on world events using a daily e-mail summary of the New York Times.
Belly Button Buddies
Monday
May 6, 2002
Writer, artist and entertainment combined in a book, painting and performance combination that is both charming and poignant.
The Greenwater Report for May 6, 2002
Monday
May 6, 2002
Just as cold out at the park as it is everywhere else and Gerald Crawford is feeling the chill suggetsing that its about time for the fisherman to start putting the fishing shacks back on the ice. The Cove's open house and how the moose are doing are covered in this week's report.
Mall Recruitment
Monday
May 6, 2002
Canadian Armed Forces are a real and tangible part of Canadian life and with our forces engaged in battle in Afghanistan seeing them add to their numbers brings the reality home.
The Free Market of Corporate America: Raping developing countries, waging wars and sustaining tyrannies
Monday
May 6, 2002
A decidedly unfriendly view of our neighbour and its economic system which seems to be bent upon exploitation and dominant behaviour.
We'll Take What We Get
Tuesday
May 7, 2002
Despite the low temperatures its ball season.
IN DEFENSE OF OUR PRIME MINISTER
Tuesday
May 7, 2002
Ron Thornton notes that our Prime Minister remains popular despite his amazing lack of committment to what he says.
No Mud Between The Toes
Tuesday
May 7, 2002
Geese by the tens of thousands are holding up on their trip to the arctic awaiting improvements in the weather and offering us humans a chance to see them and observe their social nature for a few weeks.
If There's A Crop!
Wednesday
May 8, 2002
About the same number of bins are being assembled as other years despite the carry over of some of last year's inventory.
Walls and Roof
Wednesday
May, 8, 2002
New house takes shape in the new division on Tisdale's North side.
Household Auction
Wednesday
May 8, 2002
Big crowd attends auction of household products.
President George Bush and Investment Guru Warren Buffett: Privatizing Governments and Increasing Violence
Wednesday
May 8, 2002
Violence seems only to produce more violence and one is hard pressed to think of an instance where it alone has produced a solution of any lasting nature.
What Stephen Harper Isn’t Telling You About Merger Talks
Wednesday
May 8, 2002
Chris Blackman from London Ontario gives us the perspective from his part of the country on the proposals made by Canadian Alliance leader Stephen Harper.
Open Letter to Lorne Nystrom
Wednesday
May 8, 2002
The national version of the New Democratic Party seems so much to want to be part of the corporate establishment. MP Lorne Nystrom recently circulated his "Special Report" to members and evoked this response from Edwin Wallace.
The demented and patriotic mind set of Royal Bank CEO Gordon Nixon: A strong Canadian dollar increases competitiveness, sovereignty and quality of life
Thursday
May 9, 2002
Gordon Nixon is paid $10.46 million dollars a year to head up the Royal Bank and figures that for Canadian companies the holy grail is seeing Canada continue as a United States colony.
POWER GRAB or MISUSE OF POWER:WHICH SHOULD BE THE MEDIA FOCUS?
Thursday
May 9, 2002
Joe Hueglin points out that with the apparent fiddling with advertising money in Quebec should we be considering a dangerous piece of legislation like bill C-55 when federal ministers seem so careless.
Present Application of Tax System Discriminates Against Children of Middle Income Parents
Thursday
May 9, 2002
The cost of post secondary education rise at an alarming rate now far beyond all the richest people in our country but oddly enough the least able to afford collage are children of the growing minority known as the middle class. Stanley Donovan from Newbrunswick explains the plight caused by tax laws designed to penialise those who work.
Sports, Sports and More Sports
Friday
May 10, 2002
Each afternoon the Tisdale Elementary school yard is square metre for square metre the most fun anywhere in town. Beside the pictures of the activity on the field this story includes a nearly 2MB QuickTime VR panorama that lets you move around zoom in and out and see what is going on. If you don't have QuickTime in your computer you can not see this large interactive image.
House Number Two
Friday
May 10, 2002
The second new house of the year is well underway with basement and floor already installed.
Auditor General says, "Canadian taxpayers deserve better": Yes they do
Friday
May 10, 2002
Walter Robinson is disturbed at the lastest revelations about Federal government spending in Quebec involving advertising and paying for services that were not likely ever carried out.
May 13, by-election, Send the Liberals a message
Friday
May 10, 2002
Ryder Lee from Brandon Manitoba runs through the list and points out that there really isn't much for the Liberals to run a campaign on for the by-election to fill empty federal seats.
Chris Axworthy's Draconian New Law Is Having Its Effects
Friday
May 10, 2002
Jacob Zunti takes a drive through Saskatoon's "Stroll" to see if the new changes in the law which allow police to seize "john's" vehicles, have had any effect.
As Each Day Ends Hope Begins Once More
Saturday
May 11, 2002
Friday's sunset with the hopes for rain, a crop and a measure of happilness.
Air Cadets Fund Raising
Saturday
May 11, 2002
Tisdale's Air Cadet corp were out Saturday raising money for their camp and glider programme.
Stephen Harper Needs Lesson In Civility
Saturday
May 11, 2002
Personal slurs by candidate Stephen Harper suggest that the Canadian Alliance only builds on its reputation of negativism and intolerance as the focus of his attack was the much respected leader of the United Church of Canada Rev. Bill Phipps.