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0800 Thursday - Ceiling and visibility unlimited,,
-24º, wind calm,,
altimeter 30.54---------------------WeatherLog
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- Official Grand Opening Nipawin Metis Local Building
- Thuesday, January 16, 2003
by: Mario deSantis
Wednesday afternoon there was the grand opening of the Metis Nation's building in
Nipawin and Mario was there and has picture to show us what happened.
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 President Bush opposes the University
of Michigan's Admissions Policies: The hard facts and soft facts of
students' performance - Thursday, January 16, 2003
by: Mario deSantis
The United States Republican government pushes forward its extreme rightwing agenda
as it moved yesterday to challenge in the supreme court the quota system in the University
of Michigan's Law school.
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 Paul "Moses"
Martin- Wednesday, January 15, 2003
by: Douglas R. Day
Mr. Day itemises the woes former finance minister Martin visited upon Canadians.
This story is especially important with Mr. Allan Rock having withdrawn from the
leadership race because Paul Martin has sewen up the membership of the Liberal party
snuffing out all opponents.
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 The Vicious Circle of: The
Rules of Law, Law & Order Policies and Erosion of Democracy- Wednesday, January 15, 2003
by: Mario deSantis
Put on your thinking cap because this story demands that you work your way through
some serious logic. The consequences of escalating repressive behaviour by government
and its agents are themselves increased escalation of these same behaviours.
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 Enforcement of SECTION 85
ignored- Wednesday, January 15, 2003
by: Joe Hueglin
While the government of Canada puts almost a billion dollars into registering hunting
rifles the laws enacted to deal with the criminal use of firearms is being ignored
by the same government.
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 Afternoon ladies- Tuesday, January 14, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
At 2:00 this group of nine ladies and one gentleman enjoyed each other's company
at Wolfers.
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 Recognizing Boundaries and the Value of
Thinking versus the God of Money and the Gospels of Standard of Living and Productivity- Tuesday, January 14, 2003
by: Mario deSantis
The idea that Gross Domestic Product can grow infinitely is simply not true and yet
the principles that the worshippers of the god of money are convinced that there
are no limits. Indeed greed is in itself infinite.
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 Freezing In the
Dark- Monday, January 13, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
Power went off in La Ronge and most of Northern Saskatchewan at noon yesterday, came
back at 7:00 and went off again this morning at 8:30.
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 The Greenwater Report- Monday, January 13, 2003
by: Gerald Crawford
The cold weather is not slowing down the snow mobilers as Gerald tells about their
preparations for upcoming Derbys and there are pickerel under the ice.
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 If Only This Were Jack Layton's
Vision Of Proportional Representation- Monday, January 13, 2003
by: Ron Thornton
The cherish need of many Canadians is to see some sort of electral reform that would
more fairly allow all Canadians to feel a part of the democratic process. NDP candidate
Jack Layton has been touting proportional representation and Ron Thornton considers
this as an interesting alternative with some possible improvements.
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 Anti-Canadian
Wheat Board Rhetoric- Monday, January 13, 2003
by: Joyce Neufeld
The elections for the Canadian Wheat Board are history but the harping of those who
oppose the system continues to rattle around the country. Joyce Neufeld from Waldeck
points out the small minority involved and the need for everyone to grasp the logical
that makes the Wheat Board a good idea.
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 Stuck Train, March
10, 1979- Sunday, January 12, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
Saskatchewan in the winter can be a remarkable place, this set of pictures tell of
a Sunday afternoon after the wind had brought a little snow the area near Palmier.
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 Venezuela: the
other side of the story- Sunday, January 12, 2003
by: Mark Weisbrot
This story appeared in the Washington Post today and is one of the few stories that
tells what the United States government would rather their people did not know. Mr.
Weisbrot maintains that the common poeple of the country support the government while
the affluent and oil companies supported by the US government want to over throw
the democracy.
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 Requiem for a spruce tree- Saturday, January 11, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
Hardly a lamentation, this tree had the sharpest and most vicious needles ever experience
on a Christmas Tree.
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 An exemplified description of Systems
Dynamics: Small events can have large consequences- Saturday, January 11, 2003
by: Mario deSantis
Edward Lorenz made an incredible discovery about weather computer modelling that
has rippled through every theory related to existance. Mario gives us the details
on how he sees the chaos theory affecting human economic activity and theory.
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 Life Goes On- Friday
January 10, 2003
For some a cold day is a day to stay inside and dream of warmer times but for others
it is a time to do what they always do.
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 Nystrom, Tim Horton's,
the cops and the NDP- Friday
January 10, 2003
It looks like Edwin Wallace is not endorsing Lorne Nystrom as leader of the NDP.
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 Program Mismanagement A Hallmark- Friday
January 10, 2003
Mike Reilly points out the complete and total failure of the federal government's
gun registration program that has seen $200,000,000 spent on making and upgrading
a simple database. (By the way the one in the illustration by FTLComm would cost
you a bit less)
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 President Bush
Inc.'s $674 billion Stimulus Package: A partial lesson of critical
thinking for Bush Inc. and Walter Robinson- Friday
January 10, 2003
Mario deSantis takes issue with Walter Robinson's facts and observations that the
Bush tax cuts will be good for the United States and would have positive effects
if Canada followed suit. Mario sites a number of American sources that point out
that the US deficits are certain to degrade both the economy and the standard of
living for the majority.
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Bottom Of The Page Picture
of the Day
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This morning at 0900 the sun flashed across the snow turning every puncture to blue.
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