The Week of April 11 to 17, 2004

 

April - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15


The Greenwater Report
Monday
April 12, 2004
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : There is spring in the air as this week's report gives us a set of great pictures of cats and this pussy willow. A few lamentations and some Park businesses for sale.
RBC insurance is no insurance at all
Monday
April 12, 2004
Contributor's name withheld
On February 29, 2004 we posted a story about a college student being caught by RBC's hard sell disability insurance programme where he paid for coverage he did not want and could not collect on. This story tells of a person who took the insurance and his wife was diagnosed with cancer and the company said that it was a pre-existing condition and refuses to consider claims.
April snow showers
Monday
April 12, 2004
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : some pictures from Friday of tower cumulus and a tiny bit of snow that was left behind.
Thousands at Spring Auction sale
Tuesday
April 13, 2004
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : This is a big one as traffic was lined up on the highway as early as 8:00 this morning to fill up the vast parking lot, with wall to wall pick ups and bargain hunters from all over the province on hand.
Gentle as a lamb
Wednesday
April 14, 2004
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Of all domestic animals, sheep have been of constant service to humans for ages and it would be wise of us to think about their continuing contribution.
Spring Break
Thursday
April 15, 2004
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : The skies may be clouded over, the temperature hoovering around freezing and the threat of snow is not dampening Tisdale youngsters form enjoying their enjoyment of a spring recess from school. Put the video games away, its street hockey time.
Four cheers to PC Phoenix project!
Thursday
April 15, 2004
by : Bob Shanahan
Hamilton, Ontario : Rising from the ashes of the attempt by the Reform/Alliance bunch to shake itself off once more is the born-again PC party.
The Iraq war is not right, people die in vain, and Bush is the real evil
Thursday
April 15, 2004
by : Mario deSantis
Nipawin : The recent Bush press conference was intended to put the president in the active leadership role as the commission investigating 9/11 hearing grip the news. What the conference did was reveal the fuzzy and perhaps quite lost thinking of the American president while the latest offensive by Iraqi resistence has moved to a new phase by holding cities but also taking mercenaries as hostages.