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The Week of December 12 to
18, 2004
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December - 14 - 15
- 18
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 Trojans
do Charity breakfast- Tuesday
December 14, 2004
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale :
Saturday morning the whole Tisdale Trojan team were on hand at the Beeland Co-op
cafeteria serving pancakes and sausage to a full house as part of their annual charity
work in their community.
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 Bush evoking
World War II- Tuesday
December 14, 2004
by : David Orchard
Borden : Mr.
Orchard explains the complete silliness of the American president's reference to
Mackenzie Kings statements during World War II. It make us all shudder to realise
the remarkable lack of awareness that is so much a part of the leader of the the
world's most aggressive and heavily armed nation.
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- CIA Documents Cast New Light on Washington's Role in Venezuela
 Tuesday
December 14, 2004
by : Mark Weisbrot
Washington ;
This story is one of those confirmations of what most non-Americans expected, In
fact for the past five decades this is the standard behaviour of the United States
of America, its only a surprise to its citizens.
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 The Greenwater Report- Tuesday
December 14, 2004
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : The ice fishing season may have begun and there is enough snow at
the park for some snow mobiling. Jenny is taking part in the Breast Cancer snowmobile
marathon ride and you can pitch into that project.
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 In
your face- Wednesday
December 15, 2004
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : The
reliability of voice over IP (telephone on the Internet) has come of age with AOL's
messenger and Apple's iChat. Years ago we tried the idea out but now it is
a practical everyday means of communication and it just makes sense to move to the
next level with a dedicated web cam for that purpose.
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- On
its way! Corporate-controlled, profit-maximizing, farmer-restricting system
 Tuesday
December 15, 2004
by: Joyce Neufeld
Waldeck : The
major varietys of wheat and barley were developed by government researchers and university
programmes but in the last three decades government has decided to turn over the
agricultural industry to the massive corporations. Now they will call the shots at
$15 an acre in perpetuity.
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 The
monster- Saturday
December 18, 2004
by :Ttimothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Thursday
afternoon the G5 arrived and for the rest of the day and Friday it was time to transfer
data and install applications. Saturday is the first full day of operations and it
has been interesting. 8 inches wide, 18 inches deep, 21 inches tall and weighing
in at several tonnes this is the biggest computer I have ever seen but its bigness
is not physical, this thing is a weapon.
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 Ultra
violet photography- Saturday
December 18, 2004
images by : Ken Jones
Regina : Remarkable image taken with a convention camera using film sensitive to
ultra violet (black light).
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 Centre Piece- Saturday
December 18, 2004
by : Timothy W. Shire
Weekes : Pauline
Lindenbach of Weekes puts these marvels together year round but these Christmas arrangements
are really special.
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