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The Week of May 5 to 11, 2002
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 We'll Take What We Get- Tuesday
May 7, 2002
Despite the low temperatures its ball season.
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- I
 N 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 Walls and Roof- Wednesday
May, 8, 2002
New house takes shape in the new division on Tisdale's North side.
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 Household Auction- Wednesday
May 8, 2002
Big crowd attends auction of household products.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 House Number Two- Friday
May 10, 2002
The second new house of the year is well underway with basement and floor already
installed.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 Air Cadets Fund Raising- Saturday
May 11, 2002
Tisdale's Air Cadet corp were out Saturday raising money for their camp and glider
programme.
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 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.
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