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Monday, January 14, 2008
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1700 Monday - Overcast alto stratus 18,000, visibility 15, -11ºC, wind 6 knots at 150º, altimeter 29.77
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- The Green Monster
- Monday
January 14, 2008
by: Edwin Wallace
Success: Edwin and Daren Wallace have cooked up yet another energy efficiency device in the farm shop. This machine converts paper products, household waste and wood chips into a useable fuel for their shop built furnace.
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- The Greenwater report (today)
- Monday
January 14, 2008
by: Gerald Crawford
Saskatoon: This is one with two great fish stories as the heat from coffee row fills the report and will give us all a chuckle.
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- Saskatchewan labour laws one sided
- Monday
January 14, 2008
by: Henry Neufeld
Waldeck: The Saskatchewan Government has introduced legislation to make unionisation of a business extremely difficult stacking the deck solidly to favour anti-union corporations who are applauding the legislation.
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- The Greenwater report (last week's)
- Monday
January 14, 2008
by: Gerald Crawford
Saskatoon: Time to catch up on the Crawfords as they celebrated Christmas and New Years in Saskatoon and this report brings the sad tidings of friends departed.
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- Grain blocks rolling
- Friday
January 11, 2008
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: There is a lot of valuable grain in Saskatchewan's terminals and its time to move some of it to market even with continued expected good prices all is not sweetness and light in the marketplace.
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- House 18 in place
- Thursday
January 10, 2008
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: With winter the pace of construction has only slowed slightly as work continues on the closed in houses and in this case an new RTM has moved onto its basement and foundation.
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- Trojans top in the league
- Wednesday
January 9, 2008
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: One tie and seven loses this season is a huge turn around from the team's performance last season as the team won their sixth straight game in a row last night in a two to one win over the Saskatoon Contacts.
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- Liberals blunder in Missinippi riding
- Tuesday
January 8, 2008
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Joan Beatty is a natural for the massive northern riding that is about half the land mass of Saskatchewan but she is a sitting NDP member of the legislature and the Liberal riding association is holding an emergency meeting Saturday to plan their own nominating convention for the riding. So much of Dion's leadership.
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- Greek Orthodox Christmas Day
- Monday
January 7, 2008
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: School resumes today, the temperature is above average and we are all settled into the new year although it is still a chore to think of this as 2008.
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- Leadership-prinzip replacing democracy in Canadian politics
- Saturday
January 5, 2008
by: Joe Hueglin
Niagara Falls: It is becomming the norm for party leaders to omit the selection of candidates by their ridings and appoint candidates themselves. This is not good for democracy.
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- A good reason not to live in the Maritimes
- Thursday
January 3, 2008
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Unusually moderate weather has swept in with the new year as we almost moved above freezing in Tisdale today.
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- 2008 the year of the salamander
- Monday
December 31, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Federal elections expected in both Canada and the United States this coming year while the US economy threatens to suck under the economy of much of the world all the while politics and economics are concerned with the stuff of dinosaurs, yes, oil remains an issue to be dealt witn what ever form it takes.
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- 2008 Lincoln Mark Z
- Friday
December 28, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Winnipeg: Luxury appears to be the "in" thing with auto makers as both Ford and GM are marketing small dressed up versions of other cars in their line under their premier logo with suitable price window stickers.
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- Christmas future
- Friday
December 21, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: The third of a three part look at Christmas as it is, what it was and today what it could be. To accompany the story are 25 pictures taken last night of house and yard Christmas decorations here in Tisdale.
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- Christmas past
- Thursday
December 20, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: We began our exploration of Christmas by discussing Christmas of the present yesterday in "What if. . ." today we deal with nostalga and Christmas past.
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- What if . . .
- Wednesday
December 19, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: A the heart of the woes we can find this Christmas are two things, to much communication and to much commericialisation. Neither are new but they are combining to move each of us closer to the point where we actually wonder, what if there was no Christmas.
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- Cold comfort
- Monday
December 17, 2007
by: Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale: Winter, can be not so bad. Of course everything is relative and as seasons go winter has both its rewards and its penalties. Fortunately for us the penalties went East this past weekend.
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- The Greenwater report
- Monday
December 17, 2007
by: Gerald Crawford
Saskatoon: Some people collect stamps others coins but Gerald collects friends, friends by the score and this week he tells us about the folks who have been part of his life in the past and now rediscovered hiding in Saskatoon. The Crawfords celebrate Doreen's birthday and give us a snowmobile report for the park.
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