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The Week of October 5 to 11, 2008
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- One more look at the magnificient fall of 2008
- Monday
October 6, 2008
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: This is the third set of fall pictures posted this year, more than usual because this is truly an unusual fall. It has been warm and the change of colour of the leaves has been so gradual. There are now bare trees and still many that are green while on the ground there are those that have floated to the street.
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- The Greenwater report
- Monday
October 6, 2008
by: Gerald Crawford
Cincinnati OH: The week's report tells us about Gerald and Doreen's bus tour of New York New York as they see the sights and seem to get pretty exhausted as they hurry to go from one line up to another.
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- We are polluters
- Monday
October 6, 2008
by: Murray McEwan
Tisdale: Politicians and taxation make for an enormous opportunity for abusing the real world in which things not only take their own time but often don't quite work like advertised. Mr. McEwan has some serious doubts about the Liberal carbon tax plan.
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- Town replaces water service to the RCMP detachment
- Tuesday
October 7, 2008
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: A major excavation as the Town of Tisdale replaces the water line into the Tisdale RCMP detachment. The digging crossed the street and plowed up the RCMP's lawn.
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- If you value Medicare, think carefully before casting your vote
- Tuesday
October 7, 2008
by: Randall McGunigal
Winnipeg MB: It is important to remember or realise the roots some politicians have. Stephen Harper spent two years as an advocate for the National Citizens Coalition an organisation established to fight public health care in Canada.
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- Failure of the economic system, Part II
- Wednesday
October 8, 2008
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: The effects of the economic calamity facing Canadians may persist for decades. This story suggests there is something we can do to lessen the blow of this event and attempts to explain the complexity of the problem.
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- Maintaining the status quo & shun backroom big shots
- Wednesday
October 8, 2008
by: Charles Conn
Mississauga ON: What this country really needs is not a strong leader but another minority government that will respond to the needs of the people of the country.
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- There are always alternatives
- Thursday
October 9, 2008
by: Bernd Frank
Berlin, Germany: Yesterday's Part II story on the failure of the economic system prompted this interesting contribution that sets out a successful alternative to run away capitalism or the cramped world of socialism. Go to "Google" click on more and find "translation" if you want to work through the German in the referenced article.
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- Stocking up
- Thursday
October 9, 2008
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: The new Bargain Shop has a basic staff and today it receive a full truck load of inventory.
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- The need for perspective
- Friday
October 10, 2008
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: This writer is suffering from financial crisis fatigue. The media experts seem confused and so indeed are the viewers as we know not if this is the beginning, the middle or the end of some very unusal times for the stock market, the banking industry and everyone of us as these things deeply affect our lives.
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