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Wednesday March 30, 2005 Ensign Front Page Volume
8, No. 123
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- The Provincial budget 2005
- Wednesday
March 30, 2005
by : Timothy W. Shire
Regina : We have
had a week to think over the budget delivered last Wednesday afternoon and though
many have accused the government of its failure to go with a vision that indeed may
just be the problem. Be sure to visit the picture pages.
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Today In Ensign
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Timothy W. Shire - The Budget
Tomorrow in Ensign
Gerald Crawford - The Greenwater Rpt
Phyllis Wagg - Harpers outrage |
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Today in Ensign years past
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- One year ago's story was about spring,
- Wascana Lake, Greenwater Report, prairie wildlife and the PC party
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- Two years ago story about Sleeping
- Beauty
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- Three years ago stories about:
- the wind and the air tax
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- Four years ago about spring, Jean
- Chretien, reality TV and a sunset
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- Five years ago about drama festival,
- municipal government, Tisdale
and according to a crow
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- Six years ago about Melissa virus
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Contributor's Index -
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contributors to Ensign
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Tim's Tip of the Day
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 There are to many deaths on Saskatchewan's
highways each year. Let us all do our part by realising the need not to assert our
"rights" but to make generous allowances for the deficient driving skills
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Kevin's
find of the day
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 ICU patient wakes
up to construction zone Janet French of the
Star Pheonix reports today about a patient recovering from brain surgery in the
midst of a construction project right in the University Hospital's ICU. |
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Ensign Notes
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| It is with some pleasure that we can report that our server is
now working at its full potential and accessing this site should be swift. |
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.Happenings In Tisdale:
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Wednesday March 30
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| 1:00 - 4:30 Kin Hall, ESSO amonia training for farmers |
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- An English language library for Shenyang
 Saturday
March 26, 2005
by : Arthur GuoBin Yin
Winnipeg : The
open attitude demonstrated by China toward the rest of the world has resulted in
the growing need to develop the use of the English language this U of M student is
on a crusade to get english books into the hands of people in his hortheastern China
city.
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- Parkland
Photography Club March 2005
- Saturday
March 26, 2005
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : The March theme was "cold and three great examples are in this
report of the March meeting of the club.
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 Downtown,
one block indicator- Tuesday
March 22, 2005
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Today
we take a look at business on one side of one block of the four blocks in downtown
Tisdale.
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 The Greenwater
Report- Monday
March 21, 2005
by Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : Well it is finally officially spring and there are lost of wildlife
stories in this week's report and an update on the tower and the cove.
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 The Greenwater Report- Friday
March 18, 2005
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : This is the last week of February report but brings us up to date
on birds in the park and a story about an outdoor rink at Perigold.
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 New
Management at the Park Motel- Friday
March 18, 2005
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Shawn
Ratushniak is the new manager at the Park Motel. The largest tourist and visitor
accommodation in the community.
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 Mean streets- Thursday
March 17, 2005
by : Timothy W. Shire
Regina : Day
by day the evidence mounts that as a society, Saskatchewan is well beyond an urban
crisis and yet we are all going merrily on our way ignoring poverty, social dysfunctionality
and a growing danger to all.
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 Their
naivete´ is amazing- Thursday
March 17, 2005
by : Edwin Wallace
Success : Saskatchewan's
farmers lost control of their own grain marketing company through provincial legislation
all of the rest has been just natural consequences.
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- The fault of the system (State), be it Saskatchewan, United States
or elsewhere: disregard of individual rights in a further privatized system (State)
- Thursday
March 17, 2005
by : Mario deSantis
Prince Albert
: Excuses and half truths mask the underlying motivations of much of the power base
in an ever growing single big brother government of this world.
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 Tisdale
in the Springtime- Wednesday
March 16, 2005
by: Doug Ives
Point Roberts B.C.
: It seems that there is a California vineyard called Tisdale. Doug has taken some
pictures of their products to share with us.
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 The Greenwater report- Wednesday
March 16, 2005
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : This report dishes up thirteen pictures of snowplanes from a rally
this past weekend at Kelvington.
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- Kearose
Clothing & Tack Opens today
 Tuesday
March 15, 2005
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : A new
business opened downtown Tisdale today. Western clothing, jewelry, saddles and equipment
in a completely rennovated store.
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 Its spring in Tisdale- Thursday
March 10, 2005
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Though
gloomy there is water running down the streets and the temperature is staying above
freezing over night.
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 The Greenwater Report- Tuesday
March 8, 2005
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park : This report delayed by e-mail problems here is from February 20 and
tells about Grosbeaks, deer and a rink building story in the horse farming days.
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 Separate
Schools from public money- Tuesday
March 8, 2005
by : Henry Neufeld
Waldeck : Concerned
about the further division of the Saskachewan community Mr. Neufeld considers the
funding of school for specific interest groups to be not in the interest of the public
or the society at large.
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- Parkland
Photography Club February meeting
 Saturday
March 5, 2005
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provinical Park : Time to give out some awards and look over club activities as February
theme pictures was "wildlife."
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 A Tory Kyoto
Protocol Primer- Saturday
March 5, 2005
by : Brian Marlatt
White Rock B.C.:
With other issues at hand the federal government has agreed to the United Nations
Kyoto Protocol without a plan of action, even put money into the current budget.
Back in 2003 the Progressive Conservative Party worked out its concerns about global
warming and here is a basic discussion of the issue with very useful academic annotated
bibliography to help anyone who wants to explore in more detail the ramifications
of dealing with global warming.
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 Who was Canada
shilling for in Bangkok?- Saturday
March 5, 2005
by : Joe Hueglin
Niagara Falls
: This story is questioning the Canadian Government's advocacy and representation
at the UN conferences on biological diversity on behalf of the large US corporations
attempting to develop and spread terminator seed technology.
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- It could have been prevented
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March 4, 2005
by : Edwin Wallace
Success :With
such a tragic loss of life this is really not the time for the Deputy Prime Minister
to set about making political hay. The emotional and political context of this incident
cloud over the simple inherent danger in a society like that in Alberta which worships
deadly weapons.
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 Frost- Friday
March 4, 2005
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : A photo
essay celebrating the last glorious and perhaps glamourous days of winter.
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 House number one for 2005- Thursday
March 3, 2005
by : Timothy W. Shire
Tisdale : Though
this house was begun back in the late fall its new basement was sealed up for the
winter and work has resumed at a rapid pace making it the first new house to be completed
this year.
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- Why, Ms. Higgins, the one step forward five steps back dance?
 Thursday
March 3, 2005
by : Edwin Wallace
Success : Legislation passed by the legislature ten years ago but never enacted has
been shelved. The regulation was designed to move part-time workers to full time
workers when new jobs came available.
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 The Greenwater Report- Thursday
March 3, 2005
by : Gerald Crawford
Greenwater Provincial Park
:This the report from February 13 and was lost in the 4270 e-mails that went astray
when our server crashed. Gerald tells us about the snowmobile ride for cancer, updates
us on the fishing and the marina and relates one of Merv's yarns about a pocket watch.
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- Bush’s Wishes [BS] versus People’s Needs, that is War versus Peace
 Thursday
March 3, 2005
by : Mario desantis
Prince Albert
: There is a perverse reality that exists south of the border where excuses become
facts and evidence is irrelevant if it does not suit the political agenda.
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Bottom Of The Page Picture
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The sun is turning the snow slowly into water but the Doghide is still in winter
mode. (today)
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