Wednesday, January 17, 2007 Ensign Front Page Volume 10, No. 113

White throated sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis)

 

Wednesday
January 17, 2007
by : Helen Carson
Crooked River : Though this is a common little bird in south eastern Saskatchewan it does not hang around in the winter but head off to a better climate for the winter.

Claims that "we've changed", real or rhetoric?

 

Tuesday
January 16, 2007
by : Brian Marlatt
White Rock BC : The Harper record on the environment is not good and we are now to believe that they have changed, this will require some evidence.

Why I can't watch the NFL

 

Tuesday
January 16, 2007
by : Michael Townsend
Kamloops : Our intrepid reporter, Mike Townsend, got to meet and interview Grey Cup star Geroy Simon.

Barley Plebiscite

 

Tuesday
January 16, 2007
by : Richard Phillips
Ottawa : The Executive Director of the Grain Growers of Canada expresses his and the associations delight with the decision by the Minister of Agriculture to hold a vote on barley marketing by those farmers who have grown barley in the past two years.

The Greenwater Report

 

Tuesday
January 16, 2007
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Proivincial Park : The big news as with the rest of the province was the storm. Gerald fills us in on the details at the park and the surrounding communities and backs up his story with some outstanding pictures of the event.

Tisdale to Honduras

 

Monday
January 15, 2007
by : Rebecca Hankins-Vopni
Tisdale : Here is a slide show running as a QuickTime movie to illustrate Tisdale, Melfort and Zenon Park to the folks in Central America.

Laurel Chelsberg, 2006 LEO Award winner

 

Friday
January 12, 2007
by : Timothy W. Shire
Somewhere in the Caribbean : Royal Bank Customer Service Representative Laurel Chelsberg was a recipient last night of the 2006 LEO award at a Gala event while on a cruise in the Caribbean.

"Between the saddle and the ground, forgiveness sought, . . . "

 

Friday
January 12, 2007
by : Joe Hueglin
Niagara Falls : Conservative ministers have seen the light, so they say, about the dangers of a climate off kilter. Is anyone buying this story?

Digging out

 

Thursday
January 11, 2007
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Its remarkable as everyone seems to be like a bunch of scruffy dogs, shaking the snow off streets and driveways almost celebrating the passage of the first real storm of the winter.

Update on cleaning switches

 

Thursday
January 11, 2007
by : Jack Rusick
Nokomis : Mr. Rusick brings us up to date on the business of keeping railway switches free of snow.

Bit of a storm

 

Wednesday
January 10, 2007
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : We were warned yesterday and most of us laughted at the warning as Environment Canada is rarely right but this one arrived in spades.

Conservative Party of Canada must be held accountable

 

Wednesday
January 10, 2007
by : Eugene Parks
Victoria BC : The Conservative Party is doing fast paperwork with receipts to cover up their violations of their own Accountability Act.

Thoughts on the Canadian Federal Principle applied in the Context of Contemporary Debate

 

Wednesday
January 10, 2007
by : Brian Marlatt
White Rock BC : Canada is not a country made of ten sovereign states but was modelled on the United Kingdom when the United States were in the midst of a civil war. This story helps to explain what we are and why Mr. Harper has it wrong.

NorthEast SaniSport / Inside Golf

 

Tuesday
January 9, 2007
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : A new sports business has opened in the Tisdale Mall as Yves Ollivier offers golf lessons, an indoor driving range and a sports equipment cleaning facility.

Kingsley resignation

 

Tuesday
January 9, 2007
by : Brian Marlatt
White Rock BC : Canada's chief electoral officier has quit and there has been much speculation that his leaving of the position was not of his own choosing.

The Greenwater Report

 

Monday
January 8, 2007
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : Mild weather and the Cove has closed denying fuel and coffee for park regulars and visitors.

What is expected of the new Wheat Board CEO

 

Monday
January 8, 2007
by : Henry Neufeld
Waldeck : The Federal Minister of Agriculture fired the head of the Canadian Wheat Board what might the possible directives be for his replacement?

Race is not the issue. Honouring contracts is

 

Monday
January 8, 2007
by : Eugene Parks
Victoria BC : A deal was made more than a century ago where by West Coast First Nations traded land for the right to harvest commerical fisheries. The Harper government does not want to honour the deal.

The Greenwater Report

 

Wednesday
January 3, 2007
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : Lots of people at the park enjoying the outstanding weather. Gerald gives us an update on snowmobile trails and ice fishing.

No smoke: grain burner

 

Wednesday
January 3, 2007
by : Edwin Wallace
Success : The advancement of technology is not dependent upon some miracles of modern science but often upon putting the stuff about us into new applications. We have seen and reported on grain burning stoves here before but this one is a giant leap up as it vapourises the fuel dishing out a torch of flame.

The year the tail wags the dog

 

Saturday
December 30, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Winnipeg : Its time to once again contemplate the possibllities for a new year. Is 2007 the year we take the dog for a walk or is it the year that we follow along to see where the dog wants to go. Here is this year's New Year's predictions.

Cleaning switches

 

Sunday
December 24, 2006
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Life goes on and on and on as we all go about our business and shape our priorities the basics still have to be covered. The dishes need to be washed, the laundry done and when necessary the switches need to be cleaned. Speical holidays, family events and celebrations notwithstanding life still must fit into the sometimes whirlwind of everyday events. Christmas is special but it is also a part of every year events it is part of all that we do and fits into all of the details that make up the fabric of our lives. Merry Christmas everyone!

There's a better way to reform the senate

 

Sunday
December 24, 2006
by : Ross Bateman
Langton, Ontario : The formula the federal government has recently outlined to reform the senate is not going to do service to Canadians in general as it will only further fractionate the country and decentralise all forms of government. Airtist Ross Bateman has a better idea.

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