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Tuesday, February 3, 2004 Ensign Front Page Volume 7, No. 172
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- Foiled
- Tuesday
February 3, 2004
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : We have a tendence to believe, quite incorrectly
by the way, "that things in nature are without malace or evil intent. Like
other animals birds are thought to just respond to their instincts and live their
lives as they were designed to do." That concept is a myth. Waxwings are
evil, they harbour vandalistic thoughts toward me, my camera and especially my van.
Not only do they resent me, but they pass on their dislike from generation to generation.
This is not paranoia it is evidence based bias on my part and theirs.
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 Back Alley Barrier- Tuesday
February 3, 2004
by: Stu Innes
Regina: Regina is working its way out of the snow from
this past weekend and as with all things there can be problems. Stu Innes lives on
Albert Street and in the back alley behind his house the City crushed in a wall of
snow that effectively imprisoned a neighbour's car.
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1000 Tuesday - Ceiling and visibility unlimited, -23º, wind calm, altimeter
30.12 WeatherLog
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Today In Ensign
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* Timothy W. Shire - Foiled
* Stu Innes - Back
alley barrier
* Andrew Shire - Believing
is not seeing
* Ron Thornton - Junk
food for the right
Tomorrow in Ensign
* Mario deSantis - another cover up
* Victor Cote - Snow in our yard |
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Today in Ensign years past
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- 1 years ago today, story
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- 4 years ago today, story
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Tim's Tip of the Day
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Not so good in math, not a great student in school, but the insight to discover that
energy and matter were interchangeable. Not all of us can discover the theory
of relativity, or that E=MC2 but we all have the potential to think
beyond the prescribed, the ordinary and the expected. Go ahead let the Albert in
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Kevin's find of the day
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Opposition
lambastes speech from the throne. The CBC tells how the opposition
viewed the Prime Minister's agenda for the pre-election session of parliament but
here is what Kevin had to say: "I just watched it, it sounded
 quite
good. They then interviewed the leader of the Bloc for his assessment. He was Shocked!
The new Prime Minister does not have a French accent!!!" |
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Ensign Notes
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| Temperature in the negative twenties a whole lot easier to deal with than in the
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 Believing is not seeing- Tuesday
February 3, 2004
by: Andrew and Timothy Shire
Winnipeg: Making a bland building what it is not is
in itself an artform. This is an extreme example of paint replacing architecture.
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 Nothing But Junk
Food Left For Political Junkies On The Right?- Tuesday
February 3, 2004
by: Ron Thornton
Edmonton: The members of the former Progressive Conservative
party consider the melding of their party and the Alliance as a hostile take over,
Stephen Harper is seen as an Albertan, Tony Clement, the former Ontario Health Minister
who is best known for the failure of Ontario's ability to handle the SARs outbreak
and a thirty-seven year old twice divorced millionairess, Belinda Stronach, who certainly
knows business, are the candidates for the new Conservative party. Its fair to guess
that Paul Martin has nothing to fear.
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 Manufacturing truths out of hypothesises
and out of duplicities- Monday
February 2, 2004
by: Mario deSantis
Nipawin: Logic is an unforgiving thing and we are being
asked to forego logic so that new situations do not make the past the lie that it
most surely was. If there were no weapons of mass destruction then what possible
reason was there for a war with Iraq. It is now established, there were no such weapons.
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 The Greenwater Report- Monday
February 2, 2004
by: Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park: When it gets cold Gerald
just keeps on walking. Letters from England and Sheho and news about an expanding
business in Naicam.
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 Snowcity- Sunday
February 1, 2004
by: Matthew Shire
Regina: Regina is digging out of the aftermath of the
storm that trapped the community Friday. City officials reported Saturday that it
will take three weeks to clear most of Friday's accumulation.
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 The Uplook- Saturday
January 31, 2004
by: Timothy W. Shire, Illustrated by Dawn LaRochelle
Tisdale: As intelligent life forms we have a tendance
to somehow impress ourselves with our own decision making yet the reality of life
is that much of what happens is out of hands. Many people find it frustrating and
downright upsetting to make this discovery but alas our individual significance is
grossly overstated.
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 Reclaiming Control- Saturday
January 31, 2004
by: Mike Reilly
Winnipeg: There is a serious danger in parliament passing legislation without giving
the process and the consequences the kind of consideration needed. When this happens
we all suffer and here is a case in point.
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 Sunlight and fog- Friday
January 30, 2004
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Habitation fog, meteorologists call it "ice
fog," is relatively common in arctic towns, villages and cities. Most noteably
Whitehorse where the Porter Creek area actually is frequently socked in with fog
of its own making. But for the rest of us it is rare and with this recent cold snap
we had it three days running. These interesting pictures were taken Thursday morning.
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 Parkland Photography
club January 2004- Friday
January 30, 2004
by: Gerald Crawford
Greenwater: Despite some adverse weather the club got
together to share this month's "landmark" theme and consider various club
activities. Great pictures this month.
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 Rhapsody in Blue- Thursday
January 29, 2004
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Here are a set of pictures taken Wednesday
after sunset as the temperature descended toward -40º. The arid air and the
darkening sky provide a background for one of the most significant pieces of music
produced in the twentieth century. To hear this music you will need QuickTime
installed in your computer (download
Quicktime free)
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 The madness of privatisation:
The root of an injustice system, in Saskatchewan and elsewhere- Thursday
January 29, 2004
by: Mario deSantis
Nipawin: This is a very complex article as Mario deSantis
explains that private and public good can be extraordinarily confused and this should
not be the case. Read this story carefully and check out the wealth of references
the help to explain the problem.
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 Flat tax unfairly
increases burden of low income home owners- Wednesday
January 28, 2004
by: Joyce Neufeld
Waldeck: With the changes that have been made in the
Urban Municipal Act city and town councils have tended to lower their mill rate and
utilise a flat tax that has in effect drastically increased the amount of taxes paid
on the lowest valued properties. One house in Waldeck, just East of Swift Current
has seen its property tax increase by 346% while the second highest valued property
in that village saw its taxes actually go down.
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 Battle moves from
the courtroom to your desktop- Tuesday
January 27, 2004
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: This issue is far greater and more complex
than can be dealt with in a short story on this web site but mid afternoon yesterday
the latest worm "MyDoom" began arriving in our e-mail and it is just pouring
in today. This one is related to the fight for control of computer operating systems
and at the base of it all is the "American way of doing things".
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Close to 6:00 Monday looking West just as the sun slipped over the horizon.
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