Thursday, January 25, 2007 Ensign Front Page Volume 10, No. 116

End of the mini-van; cross-over Equinox

 

Thursday
January 25, 2007
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Ford and General Motors have dropped the mini-van from their production schedule replacing them with the so-called cross-over machine, the combination SUV-mini-van. Here is a review of Chevrolet's Equinox.

Hoar-frost

 

Wednesday
January 24, 2007
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Seventeen images of the pleasant display of frost that adorns our community today.

Slow news day?

 

Wednesday
January 24, 2007
by : Brenda Gabriel
Tisdale : Tisdale's Elementary School principal reports that the school is not abandoning its students and the snow has been cleaned up.

"New Government's" limited perspective

 

Tuesday
January 23, 2007
by : Eugene Parks
Victoria BC : If one comes from Alberta it is reasonable to think of your country only in Alberta terms but to be Prime Minister of the country requires a much broader and more flexible perspective.

Leaking Dodge SX2.0

 

Tuesday
January 23, 2007
by : Christine Gerry
Vancouver : Back in 2002 this web site did a review positively praising the Dodge SX2.0. This reader tells how she likes the car but with each rain the passenger side fills up with water. She would like some suggestions as to what car of similar price would be a good replacement.

SaskPower Natural Ice Championship

 

Monday
January 22, 2007
by : Timothy W. Shire
Weekes : Weekes hosted the provincial natural ice championship for women's curling this past weekend.

Looks like things aren't working out

 

Monday
January 22, 2007
by : Timothy W. Shirre
Tisdale : Hundreds of children go to school at the Tisdal Elementary school every day yet the sidewalks are under a foot of snow.

The Greenwater Report

 

Monday
January 22, 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.

The other side of the fence

 

Monday
January 22, 2007
by : Stu Innes
Regina : This web site has presented many articles attacking the Federal Government's attempts to quash the work of the Canadian Wheat Board. Here is a chance to hear from a farmer who shares a much different view.

Make that a recommendation

 

Thursday
January 18, 2007
by : Timothy W. Shirre
Tisdale : Notice how that level of frustration seems to build just below the surface all of the time, here is a simple formula to make you feel just a bit better about the things over which you have no control.

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.

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