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The Week of March 3 to 9, 2002
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 Time To Get A
Global View- Sunday
March 3, 2002
Geography has not been effectively taught in the school curriculum of North American
schools for several generations. Its time to take matters into your own hands and
find out where the heck things are.
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 A big question of the on the other hand
economics of the Free Market: Does dividend policy foretell earnings growth?- Sunday
March 3, 2002
With the widespread practice of manipulating stock values experts are recommending
that stockholders concentrate on the dividends those stocks pay.
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 Fudge Snowplane- Sunday
March 3, 2002
Manufactured snow planes were built at a factory at Moosomin Saskatchewan here are
three outstanding pictures of those machines.
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 The BIG LIE of the Free Market and Berlusconi's
Nose- Sunday
March 3, 2002
Corporate and government propaganda world wide tends to confuse many issues but none
quite as much as the espoused miracles of unfettered capitalism. But Italian people
are showing increasing displeasure with the lies they feel they are being told.
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 Eggleton and Canadian Forces Officers- Sunday
March 3, 2002
Major Baxter explains the honour of a military officer and the odd attitudes that
suggest that they should lie to protect incompetent political officials.
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 The Greenwater Report for March 4, 2002- Monday
March 4, 2002
Moose tales, a confused dog, a fishing derby and some thoughts on charities in hard
times round out Gerald Crawford's report for this week.
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 Accountability Lacking- Monday
March 4, 2002
Mike Reilly of St. Boniface is critical of the Federal government's generosity to
large corporations in central Canada.
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 Colorado Snowplane- Monday
March 4, 2002
Bill Jackson tells us about their snowplanes and offers up a great web site with
excellent pictures of the all metal machines they have made since the fifties.
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 The March Mixture- Tuesday
March 5, 2002
Sixteen days until the official arrival of spring as we go from yesterday's spring
sky to the deep freeze of this morning with heavy snow warnings for the Southwest
of the province today.
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 Compensation for wrongfully convicted
Greg Parsons and reviews of justice systems: Do we need a federal judicial
inquiry into the wrong doings of Saskatchewan Justice?- Tuesday
March 5, 2002
All across Canada provincial governments are puzzled about case after case of wrongful
convictions. Many are looking into the problem some like Saskatchewan refuse to and
it may just be time for the whole problem to be examined on a national scale.
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 China - Better Check This Out- Wednesday
March 6, 2002
Yesterday, almost as an academic exercise I was looking for a map of North East China
and what I discovered was a black hole in my awareness of this world. Its time for
us all to lift I eyes from the canola fields and cold sky of spring and examine almost
another world.
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 National Security- Wednesday
March 6, 2002
Mike Reilly from St. Boniface reports that if a matter does not appear to affect
the prime minister and what he is interested in than it really doesn't matter to
the government of Canada.
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 In Whom Should We Trust- Wednesday
March 6, 2002
Ron Thornton asks that party members voting in leadership elections give a sober
second thought to the paramount issue of leadership. Trust.
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 CanWest Global
Decides What Is In The News- Thursday
March 7, 2002
The disturbing daily newspaper monopoly flexes its muscle and moves from censoring
editorials to the content of the news. You can tell, this is one of those "I
told you so" editorials.
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 Understanding How Relatively Lower Capital
Gains Taxes Reward the Rich- Thursday
March 7, 2002
One would expect capital gains taxes to be a reasonable levy on the wealthy until
we discover that capital gains are taxes at a much lower rate than other income.
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 Legacy Of Inaction- Thursday
March 7, 2002
Concerned about the weak stance Canada is taking in the Commonwealth with regard
to Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, Mike Reilly is concerned that our prime minister might
be able to impose the same slide backward on the world that he has on his own country.
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 The Economic Convergence of the Free Market:
Loss of Capitalism and Loss of Freedom- Thursday
March 7, 2002
The repeated mergers and monopolistic environment of business in this era is poisoning
development as government seems controlled and operated by the very same forces.
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 Tisdale Synchronized Skaters Off To Competition in Camrose- Friday
March 8, 2002
Two teams will spend the day on the Bus as they travel from Tisdale to mid Alberta
to participate in a team competition.
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 Then There Was War- Friday
March 8, 2002
The discovery of some remarkable pictures in the Bill McVicar collection gives us
an opportunity to consider the May 17 to June 15 visit of King George V1 and Queen
Elizabeth in the summer of 1939.
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 Queen, Commonwealth
and Country- Friday
March 8, 2002
Brian Marlett points out that the Prime Minister's recent remarks highlight the distinct
nature of what being a Canadian means. His ministers should pay attention.
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 Conservative leadership hopeful Tony Clement
and his 'Jump Star 250'- Friday
March 8, 2002
Stuck on their fanatical almost religious beliefs conservative politicians seem obsessed
with concepts that neither make sense or are successful. Faced with evidence of failure
they advocate much more of what doesn't work.
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 Helicopter Fiasco: Taxpayers
and Forces Pay the Price for Liberal Vanity- Saturday
March 8, 2002
Tories killed the Arrow, the Liberals killed the helicopter deal both for political,
not financial or national reasons. The cost of big mistakes always falls on the taxpayer.
Walter Robinson of the Canadian Taxpayers Federations explains his view of the waste
of money and danger posed by the tom foolery of the replacement of the SeaKings
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 Penguins- Saturday
March 8, 2002
A visit with the culmination of a grade seven art project in la Ronge's Churchill
Community School.
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 Streamlining Governments and Businesses:
Cost and Benefit Studies against People's Lives- Saturday
March 8, 2002
Downsizing and privatisation of the public service is far from beneficial to the
individuals of a society. The use of cost benefit studies to prove ideological points
is simply wrong.
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