The Week of December 3 to 9, 2006

Storming along

 

Wednesday
December 6, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : You will have noticed that Ensign has not been updated for the past seven days or so. I dashed off to Winnipeg and this is the story about this adventure.

 

The Greenwater report

 

Wednesday
December 6, 2006
image by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : Archerwill's dinner theatre, storms a trip to Saskatoon, fat deer, a little fishing, a burning car and flipped gravel truck all make up parts of this week's report.

Divide and Conquer - Quebecois as a nation within the Dominion of Canada

 

Thursday
December 7, 2006
by : Robert Ede
Richmond Hill, Ontario : A cheap political ploy by the Prime Minister's motion identifying Quebec as a nation has some far reaching and unpleasant results for all Canadians.

Saskatchewan Conservative Party

 

Thursday
December 7, 2006
by : Joyce Neufeld
Waldeck : The attempted destruction of the Canadian Wheat Board by the federal government gets almost full support from the opposition party in the Saskatchewan legislature.

Opposition needs to oppose Government Wheat Board destruction

 

Friday
December 8, 2006
by : William Dascavich
Edmonton : Though Liberal leader Dion vows to reinstate the Wheat Board if the government succeeds in destroying the institution by then the damage will not be reversible the need for strong opposition is right now.

To do no harm

 

Friday
December 8, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction. Not only we as individuals but we as in our democratic government need to be increasingly aware of the harm that can be produced by the actions our government takes.

Strahl implementing what U.S. failed to achieve

 

Friday
December 8, 2006
by : Joe Hueglin
Niagara Falls, Ontario : The wheat Board has been a thorn in the side of US agricultural policy and now we see the Harper government doing their Republican buddies yet another favour.