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The Week of January 19 to 25, 2003
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 Toy Sale 2003- Sunday, January 19, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
The gasoline and grease crowd gathered at Schapansky's Auction today as it was time
for wheeling and dealing on snowmachines.
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 Drawing a blank- Sunday, January 19, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
A trip to Weekes to get the story, amazing images and then everything vanished. A
tale of digital woe.
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 Federal firearms fiasco:
A billion dollars of waste is the real crime- Sunday, January 19, 2003
by: Walter Robinson
Mr. Robinson of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation outlines the staggering proportions
of the most monumental failure in government.
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 Bush's Tort Reform
to Quick-Fix Higher Medical Insurance Premiums: Cap on jury awards,
no frivolous lawsuits, limited punitive damages- Sunday, January 19, 2003
by: Mario deSantis
The private medical system in the United Sttes is becoming mired in impossible premiums
for medical doctors boosting the over all cost of medical care. The ugly loop of
overworked doctors and reduced proper care is leading the US president to fire the
symptom with tort reform.
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 The Greenwater report- Monday, January 20, 2003
by: Gerald Crawford
Snowmobiling and cross country skiing are the main event out at Greenwater park but
Gerald has much more for us this week as we see some truly fabulous flowers.
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 Political Princes To Party
Likes Its 2003- Monday, January 20, 2003
by: Ron Thornton
As polls were not published until Tuesday Ron Thornton briefs us on the Canadian
political scene. The surprising poll results show how accurate Ron's view is as the
Alliance has slipped to 4th place behind NDP and PCs while the Liberals ride at 52%.
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 Soup N sandwiches
for 157- Wednesday, January 22, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale's Golden Age Centre held a luncheon today, the place was full and what a
lunch!
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 Just a little
chilly- Wednesday, January 22, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
Though it is definitely cold outside it is also normal for this time of year for
a few days to a week of similar temperatures. Time to say to folks "Cold enough
for yuh?" Some day in my old age I will eventually figure out just what that
greeting means and why it is used.
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 Saskatchewan Wheat
Pool: not a co-operative- Wednesday, January 22, 2003
by: Joyce Neufeld
Less than a month may be left in the life of what was once the major grain handler
for all of Canada. Joyce Neufeld tells us about the warnings given the provincial
government in 1995 but they and the company went ahead and privatised the Saskatchewan
Wheat Pool out of business.
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 Stop president
Bush's madness to wage a war against Iraq, for OIL and only OIL- Wednesday, January 22, 2003
by: Mario deSantis
This is one of the most important stories you will read today as Mario deSantis explains
the underlying unsettling situation that is motivating the American government to
secure oil reserves as the American economy and way of life is so heavily dependent
upon the lifestyle that requires cheap oil. The references for this story are remarkable.
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 Anti Canadian
Wheat Board proponents lack credibility- Wednesday, January 22, 2003
by: Henry Neufeld
The elections for the four open seats on the Canadian Wheat Board were filled with
only one going to the anti-wheat board forces but that hasn't stopped the rhetoric
and Henry Neufeld points out the simple lack of credibility.
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 Or what's a heaven
for- Thursday, January 23, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
Though it is the typical English thing to consider the meaning of life it is also
necessary to weigh the turbulance of the day to day dramas in terms of what does
it all really mean. No answers here, more questions and lots of hope, which of course
could just be wishful thinking.
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 Chretien's corporate cash
counting doesn't add up- Thursday, January 23, 2003
by: Walter Robinson
The Prime Minister seems to feel that something has to be done about the financing
of the Canadian political system but Walter Robinson is asking, "why now"
and suggests that paying off corporations with the many bonuses they receive might
be a much better way to get started on a cleaner politcial life.
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 The duplicity
and danger of President Bush's public policies versus the big picture of environmental
public policies- Thursday, January 23, 2003
by: Mario deSantis
The feelings of insecurity that seem to be a part of life now in all parts of the
globe and the constant threats from the most powerful military country clearly suggest
to everyone that the real villian is the former governor of Texas.
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 A little storm
in February 1975- Friday, January 24, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
Here is an interesting set of pictures from the results of a storm twenty-seven years
ago in Weekes.
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 Tort or No-fault
combo problem- Friday, January 24, 2003
by: Jim Rivait, Lori Terry and Timothy W. Shire
Jim Rivait of the Insurance Bureau of Canadian expalins his position on the present
dilemma facing Saskatchewan drivers as to go with no-fault or with a tort form of
accidental injury insurance. Timothy Shire tries to give the issue some perspective
and Lorie Terry from the Coalition Against No-fault gives us her comments on Jim
Rivait's position.
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 Who are the evil
doers in the Iraq Crisis?- Friday, January 24, 2003
by: Mario deSantis
German and France are in agreement requiring a peaceful negotiation with in the United
Nations while in 1983 it was Donald Rumsfeld who was supplying the weapons of mass
destruction to Saddam Hussein.
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 A sign of the times- Saturday, January 25, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
On Robbie Burns day there are some of us who consider the past and the roots of our
culture, how remote from even the recent past is the meaning of the sign seen here
late this afternoon. (Check the reference with this story)
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 Maintenance Free
Life Forms- Saturday, January 25, 2003
by: Michael Townsend
Simple is often what we make it and in Mike's case it looks like he has found two
companions to share his life with and this pair have a lesson to teach us.
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