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Volume 5, N. 173
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0800 Wednesday - Scattered alto-stratus 2/10ths,
visibility 15, -21º, wind 12 knots at 290º, altimeter 29.79-------WeatherLog
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- Random: The impossible occurrence
- Wednesday
November 13, 2002
Neither mathematical nor philosophically possible, yet we have this unusual idea
that chance plays some part in reality.
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 Confusion about debt repayment- Wednesday
November 13, 2002
We welcome Member of Parliament Scott Brison, conservative finance critic to this
web site as he expresses his concern about the federal government's accounting practice
of taking employment insurance premiums and applying them to the National Debt.
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 A personal abuse of the Bell Curve in
Education: Is learning associated to the Bell Curving of the marks?- Wednesday
November 13, 2002
Mario deSantis tells us about the ways the good ole Bell Curve can be used to create
some distortions.
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 Exceptionality: What is not average?- Tuesday
November 12, 2002
Parents really need to think about what words like exceptional, average and special
education mean. Educators and politicians toss these words around and the public
gets sucked into a vortex of abnormal thoughts.
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 Canadian Taxpayers
Federation presentation to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance- Tuesday
November 12, 2002
Last Friday Walter Robinson of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation made a speech in
Montreal to the finance committee making recommendations with regard to the upcoming
budget. This text is the content of his speech but there are direct links to the
complete sixteen page written submission as well.
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 Tisdale marks Remembrance Day- Monday
November 11, 2002
This town like all others in the country take a moment to commemorate the men and
women who have served and so many to did not survive the two great wars and other
conflicts since around the world.
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 Lest we forget- Monday
November 11, 2002
We are fortunate today to be able to read about the story of one Canadian who served
in both the First and Second World War. Ron Thornton brings the perspective of the
people who were there and some lived while others did not but here are their stories.
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 The Greenwater
Report for November 11, 2002- Monday
November 11, 2002
Gerald Crawford is off on a bit of trip but we still have is report for this week
as we discover the geese have left and the beaver are still chomping through the
woods.
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 What is this?- Sunday
November 10, 2002
This par of unusual object turned up in some stuff from a Rummage sale just what
do you think they might be?
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 SWP6 on the way
down- Sunday
November 10, 2002
This short story includes a series of images that were recorded in Thurnder Bay almost
three years ago but are remarkable as they capture the destruction of a huge grain
terminal on the Thunder Bay waterfront.
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 "Have to say it"- Saturday
November 9, 2002
A mother of one of the new employees of the new A & W tells us that employees
have to follow the script.
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 Standing on guard
hollowed out- Saturday
November 9, 2002
Joe Hueglin points out that each of can sing our National Anthem but it has become
so empty because the cuts to our Airforce, Navy, Coast Guard and Army mean that we
are defenceless.
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 Perverse sense of entitlement- Saturday
November 9, 2002
Conservative Justice Critic, Member of Parliament, Peter MacKay shares the feelings
most Canadians have with regard to the decision by the Supreme Court that federal
prisoners have the right to vote under the Charter of Rights.
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 Country Gifts
and Crafts- Friday
November 8, 2002
Several rural folks have put together an outstanding craft and gift market in the
Oddfellows hall that will be open today and tomorrow. Here is a chance to look over
some of the unique items for sale. (17 pictures will take a moment to load)
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 Water Break under
highway #35- Friday
November 8, 2002
A surprise for town work crews was that the break was not deep below the flooded
ditch but somewhere under the highway. Here is the solution.
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 Water break near South carwash- Thursday
November 7, 2002
No chance of this being spring, no one has seen this much water in a ditch for what
seems like years as this morning the town crew set to work to repair a line that
is no longer holding water.
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 Very slow moving traffic- Thursday
November 7, 2002
Electrified wheel chairs are open wheelled racers compared with the lady and her
walker.
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 Northern Steel makes a big one- Thursday
November 7, 2002
A custom product is coming off the Northern Steel line this week as it is dramatically
larger in circumferance than standard products.
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 Last Tuesday's US election:
Furthering a no fault, more righteous, streamlined and warrisome Bushism- Thursday
November 7, 2002
Mario deSantis exposes his grave concerns about the sharp turn from moderation taken
by the few American voters who turned up to register their votes.
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Bottom Of The Page Picture
of the Day
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With a cold day, cold West wind and often over cast skies its tough being a tree.
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