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The Week of October 13 to 19, 2002
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 Thanksgiving Sunday- Sunday
October 13, 2002
Some things are a gift and almost all things a blessing one way or another. The pictures
in today's story were taken by Judy Shire last weekend and thought to be unuseable
until we discovered the mysterious beauty in these images yesterday.
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 The Greenwater Report- Monday
October 14, 2002
Gerald Crawford tells us this week about helicopters, traffic tickets and shows us
with some excellent pictures, the forest now lit up with colour.
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 Hometime: God Bless America- Tuesday
October 15, 2002
The local flock of geese are still hanging out around Tisdale unwilling to take to
the skies and head South until the very last possible minute as the danger of that
passage from here to the Texas gulf is a gauntlet across the least civilised part
of the known world.
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 Re-forming the
spirit of Reform- Tuesday
October 15, 2002
Ron Thornton is definitely not alone in feeling the discomfort of the way the idealism
of the Reform movement was bent by internal difficulties in the evolved Canadian
Alliance Party. In the light of former Reform leader Preston Manning's new book being
released yesterday it is interesting as Ron discusses the basic ideals and political
needs of this region of Canada.
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 Pettibone- Wednesday
October 16, 2002
If you share a fascination with machinery these pictures of this on and off railroad
CN crane will definitely interest you.
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 The strike that will not end- Wednesday
October 16, 2002
Though some are hopeful that maybe the strike will be over soon there is really no
reason for such a belief and even if the strike ends the damage to the health care
system is extremely severe. So severe it will simply limp running as it does now
with the strike in progress even after the strike concludes.
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 St. Matthew's fall sale- Thursday
October 17, 2002
The church hall was crowded this morning as the fall rummage sale got underway.
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 Paul (and now
John) borrowing to appear to have paid.- Thursday
October 17, 2002
Joe Hueglin points out the glaring reality that the Federal government's apparent
surplus of almost $9 billion has been produced by charging excessive amounts for
the money taken from employees and employers in Employment Insurance which is now
considered another form of direct taxation.
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 What about the dinosaurs?- Thursday
October 17, 2002
Scarborough Progressive riding president Peggy Merritt feels that the Federal government
has been distracted in its handling of the Kyoto issue and feels that without cooperation
between North American governments little can be achieved.
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 Cut back on unneeded "other"
spending- Thursday
October 17, 2002
Mike Reilly points out a very disturbing factor that has been raised by the auditor
general as taxes have risen, services reduced and debt reduction unchanged yet the
government continues to spend and keep on spending and spending 12% of the country's
Gross Domestic Product on "other" budget items.
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 And . . . then it snowed- Friday
October 18, 2002
The trials and tribulations of the crop of 2002 are not over as what is left in the
field was covered with a fairly heavy layer of snow yesterday.
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 The right to education- Friday
October 18, 2002
Be sure to check the reference on this story as it fills in the details about a strike
of the educational assistants in Hamilton Ontario. Mark Alan Whittle explains the
action he is taking to attempt to get something close to fairness for his disabled
son. This discrimnatory strike only affects the disabled children and clearly is
an issue that we all need to be concerned about as it is how we treat those least
fortunate that a society is judged.
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 Our new car- Friday
October 18, 2002
The RCMP has put some Chevy Impalas to work as police cars ending the domination
of the rear wheel drive Ford Crown Victoria.
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 Kyoto’s many questions
all lead to the same answer: Referendum- Friday
October 18, 2002
If you haven't already figured this one out, the reason the Prime Minister is going
for ratifying the Kyoto Accord is because he knows already from polling that Canadians
want something done about pollution. Walter Robinson of the Canadian Tax Payer's
Federation has spotted the need for Canadians to be informed and to discuss this
issue because it will certainly affect each and every Canadian's way of life.
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 1950 Ford Custom sedan- Saturday
October 19, 2002
On October 29 this car and several other classics will be sold at auction but first
here is a look at this fifty-two year old car.
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