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0800 Saturday - Scattered alto stratus 2/10ths,
visibility 6, -12º, wind 6 knots at 160, altimeter 29.85, haze---------------------------WeatherLog
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- Tisdale Mall comes of age
- Saturday
November 16, 2002
Time to mark the mall's eighteenth anniversary as merchants and customers enjoy some
cake and share some smiles.
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 Kyoto Ugly:
Protocol to cost $2,700 per Canadian family- Saturday
November 16, 2002
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has completed a study that indicates the Kyoto
Accord could cost each Canadian family $2,700.
This story was not posted as its support material fails
to be available.
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 Adjusting: Always adjusting- Friday
November 15, 2002
The question is: What is like in Tisdale today? The answer today and every day, adjusting,
always adjusting. This story includes a flash image of downtown.
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 Fascism is here
to cut costs, save money and save lives? The creation of 850,000 jobs
in the Bush Administration- Friday
November 15, 2002
Little by little the affects of September 11, 2002 are moving through our society,
border tension, American Homeland Security and what's this high tech World War II
Germany like identification cards for Canadians. The discomfort grows and this is
a warning.
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 Taxing Questions- Friday
November 15, 2002
Rebecca Gingrich is alerting us to a rather inappropriate tax on a tax situation
that promises were made about and appear to have been unkept.
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 Habitation Fog in November- Thursday
November 14, 2002
Unusually low temperatures in the northern grain belt this year and today something
we normally only see in late December or January.
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 Music Pick Me
Up- Thursday
November 14, 2002
This story began as a simple editing exercise of a piece of music but lead to a discussion
on one of the most popular music artists of all time. This story will autoload two
pieces of music neither are long but require QuickTime to play as streaming
audio tracks.
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 The Road to War- Thursday
November 14, 2002
Richard Neumann explains the scenario as the UN moves into the inspection process
of Iraq and outlines what looks like the reasonable expected circumstances.
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 SGI's No Fault Insurance, and now Tort
Coverage: the work of the experts- Thursday
November 14, 2002
Mario deSantis asks us to look critically at the attitude and behaviour of the government
operated insurance company which seems to be denying what is pretty widely known
to understand its outrageous activity in the past.
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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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Bottom Of The Page Picture
of the Day
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At last, the temperature has moved upward and crossed the freezing line just after
lunch today.
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