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Thursday, July 17, 2003 Ensign Front Page Volume
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1600 Thursday - Ceiling and visibility unlimited,,
27º, wind 16 knots gusting to 22 at 160º, altimeter 29.99------WeatherLog
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- The
Convertible syndrome
- Thursday, July 17, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
In a country where there are years when the weather is not good enough to find a
day to put the top down the idea of a topless car is like forbidden candy or like
winning the lottery dreams.
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Today In Ensign
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* Shire - Convertible
* Joe Hueglin - "consequences"
meaningful?
* Walter Robinson - budget
cutting
* Jacki Abraham - Community
Garden
* Mario deSantis - Impeachment?
* Jason Inness - Alliance
slipping in Alberta |
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Today in Ensign years past
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- 1 year ago today,
story
2, story
3,
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4, story
5 and story
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- 2 years ago today,story
2, story
3
- and story 4
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- 3 years ago today,
and also
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- 4 years ago today
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- 5 years ago today
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Past Weeks
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July
6 to 12
June 29 to July 5
June 22 to 28
June 15 to 21
June 8 to 14
June 1 to 7
May 25 to 31
May 18 to 24
May 11 to 17
May 4 to 10
April 27 to May 3
April 20 to 26
April 13 to 19
April 6 to 12
March 30 to April
5
March 23 to 29
March 15 to 22
March 9 to 15
March 2 to 8
February 23 to March
1
February 15 to 22
February 9 to 15
February 2 to 8
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Table
of Contents
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Ensign's Index - Partial
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Contributor's Index -
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Find
out about the contributors to Ensign and the article index of each.
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Tim's Tip
of the Day
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| Most people carry special insurance to cover the glass in their vehicle. Keep your
eyes open for stars, small star hits can propogate quickly destroying your windshield.
When you spot one get your vehicle to the glass shop and have it repaired, costs
you nothing and is much cheaper for the insurance company than replacing a windshield. |
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Kevin's find of the day
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| Ink for printers more expensive
(PDF) than vintage champagne. Always interesting stuff at "This
is London." |
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Ensign Notes
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| Summer holidays: That's right, 2003 is the first year since 1991 that we have had
a chance to take a holiday. During June, July and the first two weeks of August we
will have some intermittant days when Ensign will not post. Our plan is to
do some tripping and camping here in Saskatchewan. Posting each day this week.
Having trouble keeping up as we are into new software and techniques. |
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 Were "consequences"
meaningful?- Thursday, July 17, 2003
by: Joe Hueglin
A test for the Youth Criminal Justice Act came last week in St. Caatherines,
Ontario and things do not look promising. Joe wonders what message the judge's decision
on a drug dealer will have on the way young people regard and respect the laws and
conventions of Canadian society.
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 Summertime reality TV (Episode
2):Who wants to be a budget cutter?- Thursday, July 17, 2003
by: Walter Robinson
This week Walter takes us to a game show setting to illustrate the problems related
to cutting back on the Federal government's monsterous budget. You need QuickTime
to hear the music on this page.
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 Tisdale Community
Gardens- Thursday, July 16, 2003
by: Jacki Abraham
The community garden project is at work for its third year. Community assistance
is making this project a part of Tisdale's sense of support for all.
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 Bush's Slippery
Slope: Ending with impeachment? - Thursday, July 17, 2003
by: Mario deSantis
Up until now there have been complaints and accusations but the bald face lie in
the State of the Union address has changed the tone of concern as Americans are beginning
to realise that maybe something should be done about the warrior president who lacks
fiscal responsibility.
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 Canadian Alliance slipping in Alberta- Thursday, July 17, 2003
by: Jason Inness
The Canadian Alliance is perhaps the least credible political party since the Rhino
party yet it is the official opposition and enjoyed considerable support in Alberta,
Saskatchewan and a few other places. Though some of us consider their stone age mentality
as benign and sometimes cute, they continue to demonstrate that advanced mathematics
involves borrowing when subtracting and fractions are for college folks.
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 Sky stories summer 2003- Wednesday, July 16, 2003
by: Timothy Shire, Judy Shire, Kevin McIntyre and Doug Freestone
This web site has always been a place to look at sky pictures so we need not appologise
for these dramatic images taken over the past week. The leading image is of last
Thursday's clouds over the Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon.
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 And Bush's wars
continue as war is the ultimate cover up of Bush's lies- Wednesday, July 16, 2003
by: Mario deSantis
This story discusses the web of deceit that is an everyday and expected behaviour
of the United States President. But there is more notice in the image that accompanies
the story is a picture showing clear violations of the Geneva convention.
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 Inch Worm- Tuesday, July 15, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
When your brain is the size of a period at the end of a sentence it is a tough problem
to remember where you have been and wonder just where you should be going.
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 Canada Day at
Crooked Lake- Tuesday, July 15, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
Colin Williams wrote to Ensign wondering about the images in the "Missing Middle
Class" story from Wednesday of last week. Well this is the answer as we have
some pictures of a backyard, actually a beach front, fireworks display at Crooked
Lake.
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 More Tax-Payers- Tuesday, July 15, 2003
by: Richard Neuman
Richard Neuman gives us a pensive view of the way wealth and societal progress must
feed and nurture each other. He feels that in time the present political thought
will come around to a more socially aware perspective.
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 Shifting the blame for Bush's misstatement
in his State of the Union address- Tuesday, July 15, 2003
by: Mario deSantis
The clouds of deceit roll in as the CIA takes the blame for the Bush State of the
Union speech error but other CIA people explain that the warning of authenticity
had been given and ignored. It all sounds a little late, the US public bought the
man's "weapons of mass destruction" song and dance and the invasion took
place, people died and debts pile up.
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 Advance Passenger Information / Passenger
Name Record Programme- Tuesday, July 15, 2003
by: Rebecca Gingrich
Ottawa has been forced to knuckle under to adopt an identification programme with
all the markings of a typical Police State. But when we consider the government's
record in handling data such as gun registration things do not look promising.
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 Pike Lake Provincial
Park- Monday, July 14, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
Only twenty minutes from downtown Saskatoon an oxbow in the Saskatchewan river amidst
sand dunes is the location of an interesting park that offers a haven for urban dwellers
and visitors alike. This story include a one megabyte QuickTime
Virtual reality image that is not visible without QuickTime being
installed in your computer.
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 The Greenwater
report- Monday, July 14, 2003
by: Gerald Crawford
Boating, swimming, finding out of the way restaurants is all in a day's work for
our intreped Greenwater reporter as he gives us some tips on when to lower the motor
and what to watch for.
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 Bush in Africa:
Compassionate Protectionism?- Monday, July 14, 2003
by: Mark Weisbrot
The United States President took five days to tour Africa yet after a year of promising
aid to assist in the AIDS epidemic no money has been spent. African countries spend
far more each year paying interest on debts to the IMF and World bank than they spend
on health and education.
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 Is President Bush lying? The
truth is in the eye of the beholder, think for yourself- Monday, July 14, 2003
by: Mario deSantis
The American President and his staff are busy defending the use of a forged document
more than a year old claiming that Iraq was trying to purchase Uranium from Niger.
In the face of such incredible information you are being asked to simply think this
one through for yourself. But to help you look into it the references with this story
lay out the confusion.
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 St. Therese Park,
a place of peace- Wednesday, July 9, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
Where Tisdale's hospital once stood the park with its walking pathes, flower beds
and trees is one of the best places in the whole town. Quiet and calm prevail on
its lawns and park benches as you can see in today's QuickTime Virtual Reality image
of the area. If you don't have QuickTime
download it, it is free and easy to install, once in your computer it does its
work without intrusion.
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Bottom Of The Page Picture
of the Day
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Last night's sunset at Tisdale.
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