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Cacooning and the pleasures 

of spring break 

Editor - Melanie Dahlman 

Administration Office: 

Box 89, Wolseley, SK S0G 5H0 

Week of February 14, 2011 

• E-MAIL - unos@sasktel.net 

Make the most of being 

along this spring break 

The only limit to indoor activities during spring break is your imagination. 

Spring break has 

finally arrived but the 

weather is dull and gray 

or perhaps you just don’t 

feel like going outside. 

Don’t worry, though; 

there are lots of indoor 

activities for you and 

your children, whether 

it’s at home or elsewhere. 

Laughter and fun are 

guaranteed! 

TURN YOUR HOME 

INTO A PLAY- 

GROUND 

Organize a movie 

day and discover this 

month’s new releases or 

watch some of your 

favourite movies again. 

Ask your children to 

invite a few friends over 

and arrange a video game 

contest or board game 

tournament with fun 

snacks for breaks and trophies 

or prizes for the 

winners. 

Have a family reading 

session, done individually 

or out loud; this is a 

great opportunity for 

your children to discover 

your favourite books and 

vice versa. Dust off your 

artistic talents and prepare 

a variety show for 

which each member of 

the family prepares a 

presentation. Everybody 

has some kind of talent, 

whether in music, theatre, 

comedy, or the visual arts 

— just use your imagination! 

LIBRARY, MUSEUMS, 

AND SHOWS 

Many places offer 

special activities for the 

March break. Museums 

often organize special 

children’s workshops for 

the week and of course 

their permanent exhibits 

are always waiting to be 

discovered. Local 

libraries also organize 

story readings or creative 

workshops during the 

spring vacation. Other 

interesting outings for the 

entire family might 

include swimming at the 

local indoor pool, an outing 

to a comedy or musical 

show, or an afternoon 

at the local bowling alley. 

Many parents can’t 

take time off work to make 

the most of the February 

break holiday with their 

children; their kids will 

spend this time in the care 

of a babysitter, or, if older, 

spend the week at home 

alone. With a bit of help 

and encouragement, 

teenagers can learn to 

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Children learn an important life lesson 

when taught to appreciate time spent alone. 

appreciate solitude and to 

discover activities that 

don’t require the presence 

of anyone but themselves. 

WHAT I WANT TO DO 

Encourage your 

teenaged child to take 

advantage of time spent 

alone to do activities that 

he or she wants to do but 

which are not always possible 

in a group. Reading 

and writing, which stimulate 

the imagination and 

develop a mastery of language, 

are two things that 

are much more enjoyable 

to do alone and undisturbed. 

If he or she is so 

inclined, offer your 

teenager a trip to the bookstore 

to pick up some novels 

and journaling supplies 

for the week. 

Doing crafts, drawing, 

painting, and sculpting are 

also favourite activities 

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during moments of solitude. 

With your child’s 

permission, you might 

organize a home-gallery 

showing for the end of the 

week to reveal their artistic 

talents to family and 

friends. Again, a trip to the 

art supply store is a good 

preparation for a week of 

creation. 

A SIGNIFICANT 

ADVANTAGE 

Older children learn 

an important life lesson 

when taught to appreciate 

time spent alone. Sure 

enough, they will learn to 

appreciate the value of this 

time spent doing what they 

enjoy. What’s more, they 

will discover that not 

every hour of every day 

has to be planned and 

organized and filled with 

Internet, movies, and 

phone calls.

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Cupar Plus 50 Club Crib Tournament 

1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th winners: 

Back row: Ernie Gebhart, Alleda Orban, Peter Daradich, Anne Reiss 

Front row: Greta Gebhart, Joyce Ermel, Julius Buckshaw, Joyce Dahroug 

5th, 6th & 7th winners: 

Back row: Eugene Scrobe, Margaret Buckshaw, Keith Hanson, Mike Lorencz 

Front row: Ken Thomas, Jean Daradich, Mary Hanson, Tony Lorencz 

Cupar Plus 50 Club hosted a Crib Tournament on February 10th, with 40 participants. The winners were: 1st place - Ernie & Greta Gebhart, 2nd - Joyce Ermel & Alleda 

Orban; 3rd - Julius Buckshaw & Peter Daradich; 4th - Joyce Dahroug & Anne Reiss; 5th - Ken Thomas & Eugene Scrobe; 6th - Jean Daradich & Margaret Buckshaw; 7th - 

Mary & Keith Hanson; 8th - Tony Lorencz & Mike Lorencz. 

Also participating in the food, fun and laughter were: Bernie Orban, Norman Ermel, Joe Lipinski, Helen Lipinski, Irene Benko, Charlie Kish, Doreen Hall, Judy Bailey, 

Willie Krammer, Tillie Krammer, Helen Bereti, Rose Hehn, Helen Tuttosi, Mary Chernick, Clara Kaytor, Cecile Daradich, Lawrence Geber, Jack Mitchell, Joe Tuttosi, Ed 

Lipinski from Cupar, Harold Lorenz, Werner Senft from Lipton, Rose Kolody, Peter Kolody from Dysart. Anne Reiss and Joyce Dahroug were game coordinators. 

Submitted by Anne Reiss 

The importance of walking/exercising 

Walking can add minutes 

to your life. This 

enables you at 85 years 

old to spend an additional 

5 months in a nursing 

home at $7000 per month. 

~~~~~~~~~~ 

My grandpa started 

walking five miles a day 

when he was 60. Now he's 

97 years old and we don't 

know where he is. 

~~~~~~~~~~ 

I like long walks, 

especially when they are 

taken by people who 

Around the 

province, 

send your 

article with 

pictures to 

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annoy me. 

~~~~~~~~~~ 

The only reason I 

would take up walking is 

so that I could hear heavy 

breathing again. 

~~~~~~~~~~ 

I have to walk early in 

the morning, before my 

brain figures out what I'm 

doing. 

~~~~~~~~~~ 

I joined a health club 

last year, spent about 400 

bucks. Haven’t lost a 

pound. Apparently you 

have to go there. 

~~~~~~~~~~ 

Every time I hear the 

dirty word ‘exercise’, I 

wash my mouth out with 

chocolate. 

~~~~~~~~~~ 

The advantage of 

exercising every day is so 

when you die, they’ll say, 

‘Well, she looks good 

doesn’t she.’ 

~~~~~~~~~~ 

If you are going to 

try cross-country skiing, 

start with a small country. 

~~~~~~~~~~ 

I know I got a lot of 

exercise the last few 

years...just getting over the 

hill. 

~~~~~~~~~~ 

We all get heavier as 

we get older, because 

there’s a lot more information 

in our heads. That’s 

my story and I'm sticking 

to it. 

AND 

Every time I start 

thinking too much about 

how I look, I just find a 

Happy Hour and by the 

time I leave, I look just 

fine. 

Submitted by 

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go 

throughout 

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an each 

week. 

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Specialist– looking to partner with an 

innovative and progressive employer – we 

are looking for you! 

Please submit your resume by February 25 th to: 

Plainsview Credit Union 

Attn: Tana Torkelson 

Manager of Human Resources 

Box 150, 

Kipling, SK S0G2S0 

careers@plainsview.cu.sk.ca 

Phone: (306)736-2816

The Public Legal Education 

Association of 

Saskatchewan (PLEA) is a 

non-profit, non-government 

organization that 

provides the people of 

Saskatchewan with understandable, 

useful information 

and education on our 

laws and legal system. 

Sexual Assault 

- Only Yes Means Yes 

Most people have 

heard about how “no 

means no” when it comes 

to someone choosing 

whether to have sexual 

contact with another person. 

However, the law 

actually goes further than 

that in protecting people 

from unwanted sexual contact. 

The law recognizes 

the right of every person to 

choose whether to have 

sexual contact with another 

person. 

There are three levels 

of sexual assault based on 

the degree of force used. 

Sexual assault occurs 

when a person has been 

kissed, fondled or forced 

to have intercourse without 

their consent. Sexual 

Assault with a weapon, 

threats to a third party or 

causing bodily harm 

occurs if more than one 

person assaulted the victim 

during the incident or the 

person who assaulted the 

victim did one of the following 

things... 

• had a weapon, or an imitation 

weapon and threatened 

to use it 

• threatened to harm someone 

else (a child or friend 

of the victim) if they did 

not consent 

• injured the victim during 

How Ta 

Look at the News 

* The Cabral Chrysler 

dealership in Manteca, 

CA just needed some 

business. An employee 

was sent to pick up a 

potential customer Donald 

Davis, 67, at his 

nursing home. It didn’t 

seem to matter that Davis 

was in pajamas-and-slippers 

and suffers from 

dementia. He signed the 

papers and was given 

keys to his new pickup 

truck, complete with 

chrome wheels that he 

apparently requested. 

Another employee even 

threw Davis’ wheelchair 

into the back of the truck 

before he was sent on his 

way. Shortly afterward, 

Davis led police on a 

high-speed chase 50 

miles from Manteca. He 

was stopped and 

detained, but, at a hospital 

the next morning, he 

passed away from heart 

failure. The Cabral salesman 

insists that Davis 

called him twice the previous 

day, insisting on 

buying a new truck. 

Gene Hauta 

the assault 

Aggravated Sexual 

Assault happens if the victim 

was wounded, maimed 

or disfigured during the 

assault or if their life was 

endangered. 

Sexual assault laws 

apply to all kinds of sexual 

contact from a touch to 

intercourse. Sexual contact 

without consent is sexual 

assault. These laws apply 

to everyone including partners, 

spouses, people who 

are dating and people who 

have had sex with each 

other on another occasion. 

Lack of consent does 

not have to be verbal. It 

may be expressed by 

words or conduct. People 

PUZZLE NO.544 

ACROSS 

1. “Home Again” 

requirement, 

shortly 

5. Hollow grass 

9. Like some 

winter roads 

12. Physique, for 

short 

15. Grandmother 

16. Toward shelter, 

nautically 

17. That girl 

18. Previously, in 

verse 

19. Sacred picture 

20. Bore 

21. “____ North 

Frederick” 

22. Personal quirk 

23. Knight 

25. Small landmass 

27. Greek porch 

28. Run-down 

30. Chaney portrayal 

A Look at the Law 

32. ____ out 

(dwindle) 

34. Chance ____ 

lifetime 

36. Weight allowance 

37. Tossed dish 

38. Belch 

39. Pro 

40. Black cuckoo 

41. Market 

43. ____ Years’ War 

47. Convene 

48. Pulpit 

50. Have an ____ 

to grind 

51. Kingly rod 

54. Better 

56. “____ Don’t 

Leave” 

(Lange film) 

57. Irritate 

58. Dishevel 

59. Abrasive material 

61. Anglo-Saxon peon 

63. British brew 

are entitled to change their 

mind about sexual contact 

at any time. Even if the 

person initially agreed to 

the contact they can withdraw 

their consent at any 

time. From that point on 

any further sexual contact 

would be considered sexual 

assault. 

No always means no 

and only yes, expressed by 

words or actions, means 

yes. A person cannot rely 

on implied consent as a 

defence to sexual assault. 

Unless the person agrees to 

the activity it is sexual 

assault, even if they did 

not fight back. If the person 

is not capable of giving 

consent then it is sexual 

assault to engage in any 

sexual activity with them. 

This applies to situations 

where a perpetrator 

has deliberately drugged a 

victim or gotten them 

drunk so that they could 

assault them without 

resistance. Although media 

portrayals often involve a 

victim that has been 

slipped something like 

Rohypnol® or GHB, the 

Society of Obstetricians 

and Gynecologists of 

Canada reports that alcohol 

is actually the most 

common drug involved in 

drug-facilitated sexual 

assault. Depending on the 

substance used a victim 

may not only be unable to 

Copyright © 2011 by Penny Press 

64. Angle 

65. Write 

comments on 

68. Battery type 

70. Immediately, 

on “ER” 

71. Dream 

73. Timidity 

77. Attack command 

78. Droop 

79. Relieve 

81. Eye test 

82. Biblical vessel 

83. Stringed 

instrument 

84. Astringent 

85. Area 

86. Sure! 

87. Each 

88. Reason 

89. One-pot meal 

DOWN 

1. Edit a reel 

2. South American 

rodent 

RTOWN R Town ON-LINE NEWS - Week - Week of of February February 14th, 14, 2011- - Page 3 

resist the assault but may 

also have little or no memory 

of the assault. Because 

many substances are 

processed quickly by the 

body it is important for 

anyone who suspects they 

may have been a victim of 

drug-facilitated sexual 

assault to seek medical 

attention right away. 

This law regarding 

consent does not just apply 

to situations where someone 

drugs a victim or gets 

them drunk. It also applies 

when a victim voluntarily 

consumes drugs or alcohol 

to the point where they are 

no longer able to give consent. 

Alcohol and drugs 

may increase the risk of 

3. Organic 

compound 

4. Card game 

5. Small sword 

6. Antelope 

7. Electric fish 

8. Pastrami seller 

9. Yucca fiber 

10. Hurrah 

11. Yearning 

12. Gambler 

13. Baltimore ____ 

(bird) 

14. Kind of coffee 

24. “Mr. ____ Goes 

to Town” 

26. Substitute 

27. Turf 

29. Not mine 

31. Kind of collar 

32. Terror 

33. Type size 

35. Worrisome 

37. Fresh talk 

38. Uncouth person 

39. Show anger 

42. Travel 

43. Attila’s soldiers 

ANSWER TO PUZZLE NO. 544 

sexual assault, and may 

make someone incapable 

of giving consent or protecting 

themselves, but 

they are not the cause of 

the assault. Anyone who is 

impaired by alcohol or 

drugs cannot give legal 

consent. Taking advantage 

of asituation where a victim 

cannot give consent, 

including things like when 

a victim is asleep, is sexual 

assault. When it comes to 

consent to sexual contact 

only yes means yes. 

This article is intended 

to be general information 

only. People who need specific 

advice should see a 

lawyer or other professional. 

44. Japanese noodles 

45. Put forth 

46. Declare untrue 

49. Stood up 

52. Grape type 

53. Waste allowance 

55. Pass along 

58. Ms. West et al. 

60. Insanity 

61. Whole 

62. Light bites 

64. Diagram 

65. Ore analysis 

66. Attentive 

67. Striped animal 

69. Offspring 

72. Mound 

74. Withdraw 

75. Fill up 

76. Diving duck 

78. Dine 

80. “____ Along 

the Watchtower”

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On February 15, 1947, 

Margaret Marshall Saunders 

died in Toronto, 

Ontario. She was a celebrated 

Canadian author 

whose masterpiece, Beautiful 

Joe, continues to be 

enjoyed by readers in 

Canada and abroad. 

Margaret Marshall 

Saunders as a 

young woman 

Henry J. Morgan, Types of 

Canadian women, and of 

women who are or have 

been connected with 

Canada, Vol. 1 (1903) 

Saunders was born in 

Milton, Nova Scotia, in 

1861 and grew up in Halifax. 

At 15, she left Canada 

to study abroad spending a 

year each in boarding 

schools in Edinburgh, 

Scotland, and Orléans, 

France. After returning to 

her family in Halifax, she 

worked as a teacher. Saunders 

was persuaded to take 

up writing as a hobby by 

Dr. Theodore Rand, a 

The Woman of a Million Books 

future President of 

McMaster University. She 

was further encouraged by 

her sister, Rida, who 

agreed to do Margaret’s 

share of the housekeeping 

for three weeks permitting 

her sister to write her first 

short story, “A Gag of 

Blessed Memory.” Margaret 

sent the story to 

Frank Leslie’s Magazine 

in New York City who, to 

the two sisters’ amazement, 

agreed to publish the 

article sending Margaret a 

cheque for $40. Through 

this small triumph, Margaret 

had broken into the 

world of professional writing. 

Order of Canada 

The Order of Canada 

is the centerpiece of Canada’s 

honours system and 

recognizes a lifetime of 

outstanding achievement, 

dedication to the community 

and service to the 

nation. The Order recognizes 

people in all sectors 

of Canadian society. Their 

contributions are varied, 

yet they have all enriched 

the lives of others and 

made a difference to this 

country. The Order of 

Canada’s motto is 

DESIDERANTES 

MELIOREM PATRIAM 

(They desire a better country). 

United Newspapers 

of Saskatchewan will publish 

on a regular basis 

information on those in 

Saskatchewan who have 

received this Order of 

Canada. Some have passed 

away, but the importance 

of this Honour remains the 

same. 

David Eldon (Tom) 

Gauley, C.M., Q.C., 

LL.B., 

Saskatoon, Sk. 

Member of the 

Order of Canada 

Awarded: 

May 8, 2003 

Investiture: 

December 12, 2003 

One of the most 

respected lawyers in his 

province, David Gauley 

has earned an outstanding 

reputation for his commitment 

to his profession. He 

helped establish the first 

Bar Admission Course as a 

bencher of the Law Society 

of Saskatchewan and 

has volunteered his expertise 

to many provincial and 

national committees. He 

has also provided significant 

leadership to the University 

of Saskatchewan as 

a member and chair of its 

Board of Governors. He 

continues to fulfill his reputation 

for wise counsel as 

a founding member and 

director of the Estey Centre 

for Law and Economics 

in International Trade. 

How Ta Look at the News 

* Officials in the School District of North Fond du 

Lac, Wisc., took what they believed was appropriate 

action against sixth grade teacher Deanna Martin, who 

allegedly threatened to ‘shoot’ a student for failing to 

complete his homework. Martin was placed on eight 

days of administrative leave, and ordered to apologize 

to the student and his mother. The student’s mother is 

not happy. “Had the situation been reversed,” she said, 

“my son would have been punished, most likely 

expelled.” 

Gene Hauta 

Saunders holding a dog 

© Beautiful Joe 

Heritage Society. 

At the age of 23, 

Saunders became a fulltime 

writer mostly composing 

short stories for literary 

magazines. In 1892, 

she was inspired to write 

her greatest literary 

achievement of a true-life 

story about an Airedale 

terrier that had been rescued 

from an abusive 

owner in Meaford, 

Ontario. She skilfully 

adapted this tale for an 

American Humane Education 

Society competition 

for the best story with a 

message against cruelty to 

domestic animals. Not 

only did her entry win the 

competition’s top prize, 

but it was also published 

in 1894 as a children’s 

novel entitled Beautiful 

Joe: An Autobiography. 

This book was wildly successful, 

reportedly becoming 

the first book authored 

by a Canadian to sell over 

one million copies worldwide 

Ḟor the next 34 years, 

Saunders continued to 

combine writing with campaigning 

for social reform. 

She advocated for child 

and animal welfare in her 

novels, published articles 

in support of supervised 

playgrounds in the Halifax 

Morning Chronicle and 

participated in the Canadian 

Women’s Press Club. 

After her writing career, 

she conducted a trans- 

Canada lecture tour speaking 

to audiences about her 

many pets and her literary 

adventures. In later life, 

Saunders’ accomplishments 

were recognized 

when she was appointed a 

Commander of the Order 

of the British Empire in 

1935. By the time of her 

death in 1947, Margaret 

Marshall Saunders had 

gained a reputation among 

Canadians as a leading 

writer of popular literature 

resulting in her designation 

as a national historic 

person that same year. 

Offering Help 

– Being Supportive 

Listening and asking 

questions can remind a 

friend that they have skills 

and resources to cope with 

a crisis. If the person has a 

history of mental illness, 

our questions can remind 

them that they can help 

themselves. For example, 

“Have you told your mental 

health worker about 

The Good Sense of the Arabs 

by Gwynne Dyer 

They wouldn't do it for 

al-Qaeda, but they finally 

did it for themselves. 

The young Egyptian 

protesters who overthrew 

the Mubarak regime on Saturday 

have accomplished 

what two generations of 

violent Islamist revolutionaries 

could not. And they 

did not just do it non-violently; 

they succeeded 

BECAUSE they were nonviolent. 

They also succeeded 

because they had reasonable 

goals that could attract 

mass support: democracy, 

economic growth, social 

justice. This was in marked 

contrast to the goals of the 

Islamist radicals, which 

were so unrealistic that they 

never managed to get the 

support of the Arab masses. 

Even to talk about "the 

masses" sounds anachronistic 

these days, but when we 

are talking about revolution 

it is still a relevant category. 

Revolutions, whether 

Islamist or democratic, win 

if they can gain mass support, 

and fail if they cannot. 

The Islamists have got a 

great deal of attention in the 

past two decades, and especially 

since 9/11, but as revolutionaries 

they are spectacular 

failures. 

The problem was their 

analysis of what was wrong 

in the Arab world. Like 

most extremist versions of 

religion, Islamism is a form 

of obsessive-compulsive 

disorder. Its diagnosis 

Mind You! 

by Jayne Whyte 

your concerns?” or “Have 

you been taking your 

meds?” If you suspect 

another problem, you 

might ask, “Have you 

been using alcohol or 

drugs to lessen the pain? 

Is this a problem for you 

lately?” 

A sense of purpose 

and control can improve 

mood and coping, “I’m 

sorry you can’t change the 

situation, but you can 

choose how you live your 

own life and how you take 

care of yourself. What 

would make your life better 

right now?” 

Even when we cannot 

change the circumstances, 

we can change the way we 

see and feel about an 

event, “Are you sure your 

essentially says that the 

poverty, oppression and 

humiliation that Arabs 

experience are due to the 

fact that they are not obeying 

God's rules, especially 

about dress and behaviour, 

and so God has turned His 

face from them. 

The cure for all these 

ills, therefore, is precise and 

universal observance of all 

God's rules and injunctions, 

as interpreted in their peculiarly 

narrow and intolerant 

version of Islam. Men must 

grow their beards, for 

example, but they must not 

trim them. If only they get 

these and a thousand other 

details right, the Arabs will 

be rich, respected and victorious, 

for then God will 

be willing to help them. 

The Islamists never 

talked about the Arabs, of 

course. They spoke only of 

"the Muslims", for their 

ideology rejected all distinctions 

of history, language 

and nationality: the 

ultimate objective was a 

unified "Caliphate" that 

erased all borders between 

Muslim countries. In practice, 

however, most of them 

were Arabs, although Arabs 

are only a quarter of the 

world's Muslims. 

Osama bin Laden is a 

Saudi Arabian. His deputy, 

Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri, is 

an Egyptian. The great 

majority of the founders of 

al-Qaeda were Arabs. That 

makes sense, for it is the 

Arab world that has seen 

the greatest fall from former 

prosperity, lives under 

the worst dictatorships, and 

has suffered the greatest 

humiliations at the hands of 

the West and Israel. 

From Turkey to 

Indonesia, most non-Arab 

Muslim countries enjoy 

neighbour was angry? 

Might there be another 

reason why your friend 

seemed impatient? Was 

she tired or worried?” or 

“Was he worried about 

traffic and not able to listen 

right then?” 

It is also important to 

ask questions that encourage 

people to share what 

is going right for them in 

their lives. “What are you 

doing for fun?” or “What 

are you looking forward 

to this week?”can lead to 

conversations that good 

things do happen and can 

be enjoyed. 

This series comes 

from Jayne Melville 

Whyte’s talk to volunteer 

visitors at a Regina 

church. 

reasonable economic 

growth, and some are fullblooded 

democracies. Their 

governments work on 

behalf of their own countries, 

not for Western interests, 

and they do not have 

to contend with an Israeli 

problem. If there was ever 

going to be mass support 

for the Islamist revolution, 

it was going to be in the 

Arab world. 

Revolutionary movements 

often resort to terrorism: 

it's a cheap way of 

drawing attention to your 

ideas, and it may even lead 

to an uprising if the target 

regime responds by becoming 

even more oppressive. 

The first generation of 

Islamists thought they 

would trigger an uprising in 

Saudi Arabia when they 

seized control of the Grand 

Mosque in Mecca in 1979, 

and in Egypt when they 

assassinated President 

Anwar Sadat in 1981. 

There were no mass 

uprisings in support of the 

Islamists either then or 

later, however, and the reason 

is that Arabs aren't 

fools. Many of them 

intensely disliked the 

regimes they lived under, 

but it took only one look at 

the Islamist fanatics, with 

their straggly beards and 

counter-rotating eyeballs, to 

know that they would not 

be an improvement. 

A second generation of 

Islamists, spearheaded by 

al-Qaeda, pushed the strategy 

of making things worse 

to its logical conclusion. If 

driving Arab regimes into 

greater repression could not 

trigger pro-Islamist revolutions, 

maybe the masses 

could be radicalised by 

tricking the Americans into 

invading Muslim countries. 

That was the strategy 

behind the 9/11 attacks -- 

but still the masses would 

not come out in the streets. 

When they finally did 

come out in the past couple 

of months, first in Tunisia, 

then in Egypt, and already 

in other Arab countries as 

well, it was not in support 

of the Islamist project at all. 

What the protesters were 

demanding was democracy 

and an end to corruption. 

Some of them may want a 

bigger presence for Islam in 

public life, and others may 

not, but very few of them 

want revolutionary 

Islamism. 

It is a testimony to the 

good sense of the Arabs, 

and a rebuke to the ignorant 

rabble of Western pundits 

and "analysts" who insisted 

that Arabs could not do 

democracy at all, or could 

only be given it at the point 

of Western guns. 

It is equally a rebuke to 

bin Laden and his Islamist 

companions, hidden in their 

various caves. They were 

never going to sweep to 

power across the Arab 

world, let alone the broader 

Muslim world, and only the 

most impressionable and 

excitable observers ever 

thought they would.

Long-Term Care in 

Saskatchewan, its History 

and Evolution, a book by 

Boris W. Kishchuk, was 

published recently. At a 

time when our population 

is aging and some of our 

citizens are freezing in the 

streets, there is a pressing 

need for long-term care. 

Kishchuk’s concentrated 

study of our past does a 

service in several ways. It 

will get us thinking about 

what is involved in the 

planning, financing and 

implementing of necessary 

care, and it also provides a 

detailed view of our 

provincial history in the 

area. 

I’m always amazed 

and proud when I think of 

what our province accomplished 

at a time when we 

had far fewer people and 

far less money than we 

have now, yet somehow 

today we can’t begin to 

keep up with the need. An 

engineer, Boris Kishchuk 

is not one to ponder issues 

like that; he is out to present 

facts, and the book is 

crammed with information 

like dates, sizes, population, 

staffing, etc. It also 

contains photographs of 

many of the long-term 

How Ta 

Look at the News 

* A New York City judge 

ruled that an 87-year-old 

woman who was accidentally 

knocked down 

by several kids racing 

bicycles on the sidewalk 

can sue the kids, including 

a 4-year-old. The 

young boy was legally 

presumed to understand 

the difference between 

‘reasonable’ and ‘unreasonable’ 

behaviour. 

Gene Hauta 

Long Term Care 

by Kay Parley 

facilities that have existed 

here and some of them are 

very impressive, designed 

by fine architects. 

In fact the reader can’t 

help but wonder if architecture 

struck our forebearers 

as more important 

than people, because 

staffing for the facilities 

was not always adequate. 

For example, the mental 

hospital at Weyburn was in 

operation from 1921 until 

1947 before a wellplanned 

training program 

for staff was finally instituted. 

From our modern 

perspective, I’m sure we 

could pick many faults 

with the past. For instance, 

two and three-story buildings 

without elevators are 

not the most appropriate 

accommodation for the 

elderly, and yet they used 

to provide buildings like 

that. 

In spite of it all, the 

book left me feeling more 

proud than ashamed of our 

province. After all, for the 

first 20 years of our 

provincial status our population 

was small and scattered, 

so our few doctors 

were expected to be supermen. 

Anyone who was 

seriously ill had to travel 

to Manitoba by train for 

surgery in the early days. 

A few private enterprises 

cared for the few who 

needed long-term care. 

When the Home for the 

Infirm opened at Wolseley 

in 1921 (the first government-operated 

facility of 

its kind in the province) 

the first 26 residents were 

transferred from a private 

home on Hamilton Street 

in Regina. 

The range of facilities 

is impressive. There are 

chapters dealing with the 

two big mental hospitals, 

North Battleford (1914) 

and Weyburn (1921.) 

There was the Training 

School for the Intellectually 

Handicapped which 

began at Weyburn in 1945 

and moved to Moose Jaw. 

There were sanitoria in 

Saskatoon, Prince Albert, 

and one of the most 

impressive and successful 

of Saskatchewan’s enterprises, 

the San at Fort 

Qu’Appelle opened in 

1917. The Canadian 

National Institute for the 

Blind had a facility in 

down town Saskatoon, and 

Saskatoon also housed the 

School for the Deaf 

(1931.) 

Kishchuk’s book is so 

packed with facts it is 

impossible to touch on a 

fraction of it in this space. 

Suffice to say that, including 

Wolseley, nine government-operated 

homes for 

the infirm are covered, 

together with a large number 

of non-profit organizations 

founded by churches. 

The detailed information 

to be found in Long-Term 

Care is impressive. There 

are many charts giving statistics. 

Anyone involved 

with planning for longterm 

care in the community 

should have this book in 

hand and study it. I have 

always believed that planning 

for the future should 

be based on a thorough 

knowledge of the past. 

Long-Term Care in 

Saskatchewan, its History 

and Evolution is a good 

place to begin. 

Trying Times 

A friend who wears a smile always goes the extra 

mile. A cheerful friend brightens your day and lightens 

your load as you go your way. Doing the right thing 

for the right reason gives quality of life in each new 

season. You always have to make up your mind, or 

very soon you are left behind. Your greatest gift is the 

right to choose, to make a decision, then win or lose. 

Happiness is perfect only when shared. Friendship is 

precious when two friends care. The best part of learning 

and this is true no one can ever take it from you. 

Trying times are meant for trying out new things, so 

every change will help to give your dreams new 

wings. 

Submitted by Raymond Olson, Lumsden, Sask 

“The Adventures of Caraway 

Kim…Right Wing” 

by Don Truckey 

Review by Kim McCullough 

Set in the dead of a 

1960s Alberta winter, “The 

Adventures of Caraway 

Kim…Right Wing” is the 

story of eleven-year-old 

Kim and his race to 

become Top Scorer of the 

Caraway hockey team. 

Kim was first introduced 

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Dear Ellen 

Dear Ellen: 

I recently broke up 

with a girl I dated for 

about six months. She is 

a nice person but she 

wanted to control everything 

I did. Now she 

won’t leave me alone, In 

fact, I can’t go anywhere 

or do anything without 

her being there. She follows 

me, phones my 

mother constantly, leaves 

notes on my car, drives 

by my house, parks outside 

and bugs all my 

friends. I asked another 

girl out and when we 

went out for supper, she 

came to the restaurant 

and threatened to kill me 

if she ever saw me with 

another woman. Then 

she said, “If I can’t have 

you, nobody will!” I hate 

to admit it, but I’m, 

almost scared of her. 

How can I make her 

stop? I’ve tried talking to 

her but that only makes 

things worse and doesn’t 

help. 

Russ 

Dear Russ: 

You wrote that your 

ex-girlfriend wanted to 

control you while you 

were dating and it sounds 

like she still wants to control 

you. What she’s doing 

now is stalking you. There 

are laws to protect people 

who are being stalked but 

you must have a reasonable 

fear for your safety. 

It’s hard to know when 

“normal” persistence turns 

to obsessive behaviour. 

Stalking can start out small 

and you probably down 

played it for first contacts 

or events and ignored or 

denied potentially dangerous 

behaviour. Stalking 

behaviour needs to be 

taken seriously. She threatened 

your life at the restaurant 

that serious! She will 

not stop his behaviour until 

you take legal action and 

even then she may continue, 

but at least you will 

have the law behind you. 

The following are actions 

to take against a stalker: 

Keep records of all the 

activities and stalking 

behaviour, such as phone 

calls, parking outside your 

house, meetings in public 

places. Keep copies of letters, 

“gifts”, and messages 

on answering machines 

and be sure to mark accurate 

dates, times and location 

in a log book. Talk to 

witnesses and ask if they 

will testify in court and 

write down what they 

observed happening. Notify 

police of each incident 

ask them to log your calls 

even if they seem uninterested. 

Have an attorney 

send a registered letter 

telling the stalker to stop 

their behaviour immediately 

and that you are working 

with the police to 

secure their arrest. Try to 

get a restraining order. 

Inform your neighbours, 

co-workers and friends that 

this girl is stalking you. 

Don’t wait to explain when 

the stalker shows up at 

work or a social situation. 

The stalker may adopt her 

most friendly demeanour 

which may make you look 

in author Don Truckey's 

first 'Caraway Kim' novel 

for middle years readers: 

"The Adventures of Caraway 

Kim...Southpaw", 

published in 2005. 

To win the title of Top 

Scorer, Kim he has to beat 

Brad Rooks, the local troublemaker. 

The boys’ rivalry 

continues off-ice, forcing 

Kim to confront his 

own sense of right and 

wrong, as well as stand up 

for himself against Brad’s 

overbearing ways. In Kim, 

Truckey continues to follow 

a likeable young hero 

who makes realistic choices. 

Truckey’s clear rendering 

of a time he calls 

“before now” makes life in 

the 1960s come alive. 

Young hockey fans interested 

in the old days of the 

Original Six will be 

thrilled with the detailed 

descriptions of the difficulties 

players faced back in 

those days: the rough ice; 

the biting cold; and the 

thin, not-so-protective 

equipment that left heads, 

knees and throats vulnerable 

to injury. The play-byplay 

action of the hockey 

games will keep young 

readers engaged and interested. 

“The Adventures of 

Caraway Kim…Right 

Wing” is more than just a 

sentimental journey back 

to “the good old days” 

before indoor rinks and 

Zambonis. Truckey 

weaves the weightier 

issues of bullying and 

shoplifting into the story, 

challenges that are still relevant 

to today’s youth. He 

does not whitewash Kim’s 

struggles with Brad, but 

allows him to work 

through and resolve them 

in a way that is both satisfying 

and believable. 

bad. Update security on 

your home – check locks, 

windows, get an unlisted 

phone number, etc. Write 

down her license plate 

number, description of 

vehicle and give it to 

friends, family, co-workers 

and police. Give a description 

of the stalker to anyone 

who may see her. 

Reject the notion that since 

you have not been physically 

assaulted you have 

not been harmed. You have 

been threatened and emotionally 

assaulted. Refrain 

from retaliation of any 

kind. This could place you 

in more danger or could be 

used against you if you go 

to court. Don’t joke with 

others about wanting to 

kill the stalker. Again, this 

could be used against you 

in court. Understand that 

stalking is disordered, sick 

and abnormal behaviour 

and not acceptable under 

any circumstances. Most 

important remember that 

this is not your fault and 

you are not alone! 

For more information 

on abuse go to envisioncounsellingcentre.com 

or 

call Envision Counselling 

and Support Centre 24 

Hour Abuse/Sexual 

Assault Support Line at 1- 

800-214-7083. Or write to 

Dear Ellen at Box 511, 

Estevan, SK S4A 2A5 

Ellen 

How Ta Look at the News 

* Caroline Slusher, 32, and two associates were 

indicted in Willoughby, Ohio, after a BP gas station 

convenience store was the victim of an “armed” robbery. 

After a clerk caught Slusher shoplifting, Slusher 

raised her arm menacingly and threatened to touch the 

clerk, claiming she was infected with the highly 

destructive bacteria MRSA. The clerk backed off, and 

the three fled. 

Gene Hauta 

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I don’t believe it would 

be good for Saskatchewan to 

“host” a nuclear waste 

dump. And there are indications 

that most 

Saskatchewan people feel 

the same way. Past polls 

have shown widespread 

opposition to bringing 

nuclear wastes here, and 

80% of those participating in 

the Uranium Development 

Partnership (UDP) consultations 

in 2009 opposed a 

nuclear dump. But we know 

that popular democracy 

doesn’t necessarily win out 

in these David and Goliath 

conflicts. So what are the 

main challenges those wanting 

a nuclear waste ban will 

face? 

In early February I was 

asked to speak on a nuclear 

waste ban at community 

forums in Saskatoon, Prince 

Albert and La Ronge. It was 

no surprise that fifty people 

came out in La Ronge and 

that Prince Albert had an 

even larger meeting than 

Saskatoon. It would take 

18,000 truckloads to move 

existing and future radioactive 

high-level wastes (mainly 

from Ontario) to a northern 

Saskatchewan dump, 

and these would all be going 

nearby Prince Albert and La 

Ronge, day in and day out, 

for decades. 

I wanted to present 

information that the broad 

public will not be getting 

from the industry’s Nuclear 

Waste Management Organization 

(NWMO). Most people 

for example have no idea 

about the magnitude of the 

transportation that would be 

required to move 3.6 million 

fuel bundles across Canada. 

If people only hear the wellfinanced, 

one-sided industry 

view, there is no possibility 

of informed consent. And 

we know industry can be 

quite skilled at end-running 

democracy. I also wanted to 

listen and learn, and I heard 

a lot of passionate views, 

especially about the dilemmas 

facing northern communities. 

After this trip I am 

much clearer about what 

those wanting a nuclear 

waste ban are up against. 

HIDING BEHIND 

GEOLOGY 

The industry argues that 

caverns dug deep in the 

Canadian Shield is the safest 

way to store and ultimately 

dispose of nuclear wastes. It 

has been pushing this position 

since the late 1970s, 

when AECL, which makes 

the Candu reactors that create 

nuclear wastes, started to 

promote it. The Canadian 

SASKATCHEWAN SUSTAINABILITY 

The Challenges of Achieving a Nuclear Waste Ban 

by Jim Harding 

Shield covers most of Canada, 

from northern 

Saskatchewan to the Maritimes, 

and nuclear wastes 

are mostly produced in 

southern Ontario, which is in 

the Canadian Shield. So why 

is the NWMO even here? 

We don’t have nuclear 

plants, and each time government 

or industry tries to 

float a nuclear power plant 

here, like Bruce Power’s 

proposal to build two reactors 

on the North 

Saskatchewan River, the 

projects get rejected for a 

combination of good economic 

and ecological reasons. 

The only reason the 

nuclear industry is targeting 

Saskatchewan is because the 

idea of a nuclear dump has 

already been rejected elsewhere. 

AECL found no takers 

in Ontario in the late 

1970s and Manitoba passed 

a nuclear waste ban in 1987. 

The NWMO’s recent negotiations 

with town councils in 

Ear Falls and Ignace, 

Ontario, got kiboshed when 

local people threw the mayors 

and councils out in the 

2010 fall elections. And 

Quebec has a regulation 

banning importation of 

nuclear wastes from other 

provinces. 

The industry doesn’t 

want us to know that the 

Seaborn inquiry from 1991- 

98 concluded Canadians did 

not support geological disposal. 

Those who see personal-business 

benefits from 

having a nuclear dump in 

northern Saskatchewan 

argue that since the Canadian 

Shield here has been stable 

for so long, it is a safe 

place to put these wastes. 

This can sound convincing. 

But geology is not a predictive 

science. While knowledge 

about past geology can 

provide some foresight 

about possible future events, 

it can’t predict them or their 

timelines. And common 

sense gets sacrificed in the 

industry’s promotions. The 

presumed stability of the 

rock formation would itself 

be compromised by the proposed 

massive drilling and 

excavation project. The 

movement of underground 

water would alter dramatically. 

The long-term heat 

and constantly changing, 

and not necessarily reducing, 

radioactivity in the nuclear 

wastes could further compromise 

the rock. The way 

the industry promotes its 

case is a bit like how the 

pharmaceutical industry 

downplays adverse sideeffects 

while promoting its 

lucrative products. The 

adverse effects of a nuclear 

dump would however linger 

forever. 

NUCLEAR 

SPIN-DOCTORS 

It is foolish to downplay 

the role that self-interest 

plays in these promotions. 

Who would most benefit 

from such a massive excavation 

project? The NWMO 

throws around figures like 

$24 billon to leave the 

impression that there would 

be an explosion of opportunities 

in places like the Métis 

community of Pinehouse or 

the First Nations one at English 

River/Patunak. Yet few 

jobs would actually be created 

on-site and there would 

be considerable risk to the 

jobs in the local land-based 

economy? Most of the economic 

benefits of such a 

capital-intensive project 

would involve the production 

and transport of the 

thousands of nuclear waste 

canisters, the drilling and 

heavy equipment companies, 

and geological and 

engineering consultants. And 

lots of this talk about benefits 

remains spin, for the 

NWMO only has a few billon 

dollars in the bank. 

The NWMO’s campaign 

is being run at the 

level of perception, not hard 

or comparative economics. 

When full-costing is done, 

this mega-project looks 

more and more absurd. 

PUZZLE NO. 284 

ANSWERTOPUZZLENO. 284 

However, economic spin can 

work and those who favour 

a nuclear waste ban will 

have to directly challenge 

this spin and support northerners 

in their quest for sustainable 

alternatives. 

INCREMENTAL 

EXPANSION 

The nuclear industry’s 

incremental expansion presents 

an even more difficult 

challenge. Even though the 

impacts come from the 

whole nuclear fuel system, 

from uranium mining and 

refining to nuclear plants, it 

is never assessed as a whole. 

The cumulative effects get 

ignored. 

Thankfully the broader 

public is catching on. In late 

2010 seventy municipalities 

and First Nations along the 

Great Lakes opposed Bruce 

Power shipping radioactive 

boilers from its Ontario 

nuclear reactors to Sweden. 

Even though the regulatory 

body, the CNSC, predictably 

approved Bruce Power’s 

plan, opposition remains 

strong. There is great concern 

that this plan will set a 

precedent for transporting 

nuclear wastes, and more 

people are becoming aware 

of the dangers of transporting 

high-level radioactive 

wastes across Canada en 

route to a nuclear dump in 

Saskatchewan’s north. 

The industry downplays 

this bigger picture. Shortterm 

benefits are targeted at 

economically-vulnerable 

communities, which is why 

the NWMO is shopping 

around Saskatchewan’s 

north. An objective, retroactive 

analysis is helpful. For 

example, uranium mine 

expansion in the late 1970s 

was promoted as bringing 

unprecedented economic 

benefits to northerners. Yet 

after the expansion of the 

uranium industry over three 

decades, northern 

Saskatchewan remains in the 

same position, as Canada’s 

second poorest region. The 

main legacy of uranium 

mining will be long-term 

radioactive tailings. 

THINKING AHEAD 

To win a nuclear waste 

ban we’ll have to learn from 

the past and better think 

ahead. The motive for the 

industry creating a central 

storage area has always 

HOW TO PLAY: 

included retrieving nuclear 

wastes to get plutonium. If a 

northern community agreed 

to host Ontario’s nuclear 

wastes, then the north would 

become the only realistic site 

for a nuclear waste reprocessing 

plant. Reprocessing 

is banned in the U.S. and 

elsewhere because it is 

extremely costly, involves 

extensive radioactive contamination 

and increases the 

risk of weapons proliferation. 

If a nuclear dump is 

created here, the north 

would be well on its way to 

becoming the nuclear waste 

industrial corridor for Canada 

and perhaps even for the 

U.S., which has no viable 

nuclear waste plan. Is that 

what we want for northern 

Saskatchewan? 

Next time I’ll look at 

the role colonial mentality is 

playing in the nuclear waste 

controversy. 

Jim Harding is a retired 

professor of environmental 

and justice studies who lives 

in the Qu’Appelle Valley. 

Past columns are available 

at 

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Sports as Seen by Gene 

* Congratulations to 

both Saskatchewan representatives 

at the junior 

curling national finals. 

Both Trish Paulsen and 

Braeden Moskowy had to 

go to an extra end to win 

the championship. In fact, 

Paulsen had to steal both 

victories on the final day. 

She beat Alberta’s Nadine 

Chyz 6-4 in the championship 

game, and Manitoba’s 

Breanne Meakin 

was third in a Prairie 

sweep. Paulsen was 

backed by Kari Kennedy, 

Kari Paulsen and Natalie 

Yanko and they will represent 

Canada at the 

world championship 

March 5-13 in Perth, 

Scotland. It’s been seven 

years since Canadian 

women won a world junior 

title. Undoubtedly, the 

favourite will be host Eve 

Muirhead, winner of three 

junior crowns from 2007 

to 2009. Sweden’s Anna 

Hasselborg beat Canada’s 

Rachel Homan in the 

final last year, while Scotland 

finished with a 

record of 2-7. She was 

not skipping the team in 

2010 and I’m not sure 

what happened to her. I 

believe she was at the 

Olympics. She will be 21 

in April. 

Trish Paulsen rink 

* The men’s final featured 

Moskowy and Mat 

Camm of Ontario. Colin 

Thomas of Newfoundland 

and Labrador lost the 

semi-final to Camm. He 

is backed by Kirk 

Muyres, Colton Flasch 

and Matt Lang. Finishing 

13-0, Moskowy became 

only the fifth men’s team 

to go undefeated at the 

Canadian junior championship. 

The others were 

Manitoba’s Hugh 

McFadyen (1986); Alberta’s 

Wayne Saboe (1963); 

Saskatchewan’s Mike 

Lukowich (1962); 

Saskatchewan’s Gary 

Thode (1952). McFadyen 

is currently the leader of 

the opposition in the 

Manitoba legislature. 

Canada’s last world junior 

men's title was in 

2007, won by Alberta’s 

Charley Thomas. 

* Currie, after Cathy- 

Overton Clapham won 

the Manitoba women’s 

curling championship, 

setting up a Feb. 23 

grudge match at the Scotties 

with Jennifer Jones: 

“It’s going to be colder on 

that ice than a chat with 

my ex-wife.” 

* Super Bowl 45 has 

come and gone. Green 

Bay was able to hold on 

for the win. The Steelers 

fell behind early in the 

game, but managed a second-half 

rally that had 

them within three points 

at 28-25. But the Packers 

persevered and were victorious, 

31-25, and 

brought the Lombardi 

Trophy back to its figurative 

home. Aaron 

Rodgers was named 

MVP, but the real killer 

for the Steelers were the 

three turnovers. 

* The population of 

Green Bay is 101,025, 

which is less than the 

attendance in Dallas, even 

though they did not quite 

set a record. The official 

total was 103,219, so a 

record was missed by 766 

people. Green Bay is 

about half the size of 

Saskatoon and about a 

quarter the size of Brampton, 

Ont. 

* Aaron Rodgers 

names a couple of people 

with CFL connections 

among the most influential 

people in his development 

as a quarterback. He 

mentions Jeff Tedford 

first, Tom Clements second. 

The two played a 

total of 18 seasons in the 

CFL. Tedford was 

Rodgers’ coach at the 

University of California. 

Clements is the current 

quarterback coach with 

the Packers and has been 

there for five of Rodgers’ 

six NFL seasons. Actually 

Rodgers doesn’t want to 

say too much about 

Clements in fear that 

praise will get Clements a 

promotion with another 

NFL team. Clements won 

an NCAA championship 

at Notre Dame and two 

Grey Cups in Canada and 

finally got a Super Bowl. 

“How many people can 

say that?” said Clements. 

Asked about a career 

highlight as a player, he 

replied, “The (Grey Cup 

touchdown) pass to Tony 

Gabriel. Everybody 

remembers the pass to 

Gabriel.” Especially those 

of us in Saskatchewan! 

* Steve Simmons 

said that part of the pregame 

show was to be 

Terry Bradshaw interviewing 

Ben Roethlisberger. 

When Roethlisberger 

got in trouble prior 

to the season, Bradshaw 

stated: “If I had owned 

the Steelers, hear me loud 

and clear, Roethlisberger 

would not be a Steeler. I 

would have got rid of 

him.” 

* RJ Currie, on the 

hemline theory of economics 

that states when 

women’s dresses get 

shorter, the economy 

improves: “After seeing 

what Mexican TV 

reporter Inez Sainz wore 

at Super Bowl Media 

Day, a lot of stocks went 

up.” 

Inez Sainz 

* Vancouver comic 

Torben Rolfsen, on the 

shortage of strippers in 

Dallas for the Super 

Bowl: “Pacman Jones 

says that is the final straw 

and there will be a players’ 

strike in 2011.” 

* Cam Fuller, on 

Justin Bieber and Ozzy 

Osbourne appearing in a 

Super Bowl commercial 

for Best Buy: “Seems no 

one told Bieber that Ozzy 

has a habit of biting the 

heads off small, defenceless 

creatures.” 

* “At a low temperature 

of 17 degrees,” 

pointed out Jerry Crowe 

of the L.A. Times, “it was 

colder in Dallas than it 

was in Milwaukee and 

Pittsburgh, not to mention 

Vancouver, Canada, and 

Oslo, Norway. The latter 

two have hosted the Winter 

Olympics.” 

* Bill Littlejohn, on 

Jenny the Elephant of the 

Dallas Zoo predicting a 

Packers victory by crushing 

a melon painted in 

Steeler colours: “Of 

course she likes the Packers 

— she’s a packerderm.” 

Jenny 

* Did you know parking 

for the Super Bowl 

cost up to $900? “Apparently, 

it’s not the Dallas 

Cowboys’ doing,” wrote 

Cam Hutchinson from 

whose column I did a lot 

of gleaning this week. 

“How could Jerry Jones 

do this and keep a straight 

face?” 

* Toronto comedian 

Frenchie McFarlane says 

he is hoping Packers’ 

nose tackle B. J. Raji 

scores a touchdown in the 

Super Bowl: “Remember 

the last one a couple of 

weeks ago? It was amazing; 

his man-boobs 

crossed the goal line 

before his feet.” 

* Patriots quarterback 

Tom Brady was selected 

as the NFL’s MVP for the 

second time in four seasons. 

Currie, on Troy 

Polamalu being the NFL’s 

Defensive Player of the 

Year: “Clay Matthews is 

the hair apparent.” 

* Michael Vick was 

the NFL Comeback Player 

of the Year award. In 

the 12-year history of the 

honour, no player has 

returned from jail to earn 

it. Polamalu won the 

Defensive Player of the 

Year award. 

* Currie, after Detroit 

Lions defensive tackle 

Ndamukong Suh won the 

NFL rookie-of-the-year 

award: “Not bad for a boy 

named Suh.” 

* Simmons also 

points out that Mike Tomlin 

was an assistant coach 

at Arkansas State University 

when Cleo Lemon 

was the starting quarterback. 

His memory of the 

Argo starter? “Nice guy,” 

he told me. “Anything 

else?” I asked. “Nice 

guy,” he repeated. 

* Simmons: “Word is 

Saskatchewan WR Andy 

Fantuz didn’t get a whole 

lot of money up front to 

sign with the Chicago 

Bears. He’s taking his one 

shot at the NFL. Up front 

money was not his motivation.” 

* It’s not often a 

player who toiled mostly 

as a backup, as Chris 

Bauman did in Hamilton 

last season, is rewarded 

with a six-figure contract. 

But that’s what happened 

to the 26-year-old, former 

first overall draft pick 

who latched onto just 17 

passes in a forgettable 

2010 campaign. He might 

be getting as much as 

$125,000 per with the 

Esks. 

* And from the 

Dwight Perry’s This 

Sounds Absurd file: 

Watching Lingerie 

League football on a flatscreen 

TV. And from his 

Sometimes These Items 

Just Write Themselves 

File comes word that 

MGM in Las Vegas has 

set the over-under line for 

Lingerie Bowl VIII — at 

36 ? 

* Currie, after the 

Yankees signed former 

Expo and 2005 AL Cy 

Young winner Bartolo 

Colon to a minor league 

contract: “I hear Bartolo 

is half the pitcher he used 

to be. Does that make 

him a semi-Colon?” 

* Blogger Chad 

Picasner, with the scouting 

report on corpulent 

Yankees camp invitee 

Bartolo Colon: “Fork and 

spoon move faster than 

his pitches.” 

* Colon may get the 

chance to replace Andy 

Pettitte in the rotation. On 

Pettitte’s retirement, former 

Washington Times 

columnist Dan Daly 

wrote, “Would have happened 

sooner, but it took 

a while to cross all the 

T’s.” 

* Pettitte explained 

that he just doesn’t have 

the sufficient hunger anymore. 

“What, you think,” 

noted Perry, “it’s easy 

elbowing your way past 

CC Sabathia and Bartolo 

Colon to the postgame 

spread?” Perry titled this 

tidbit, “Stick a fork in 

him...” Colon or Sabathia 

just might do that! 

* Marty Burtwell, on 

speculation that Martin 

Luther King III will purchase 

a percentage of the 

New York Mets: “In a 

few years, his press conferences 

will start with ‘I 

have a nightmare…’” 

* The Chicago storm 

is so nasty it blew chunks 

off the roof of Wrigley 

Field. “Normally the 

words blew chunks don’t 

apply to the Cubs until 

early September,” wrote 

Alex Kaseberg. 

* AL MVP Josh 

Hamilton and the Texas 

Rangers agreed Thursday 

to a two-year deal worth 

$24 million. The deal was 

reached four days before 

a scheduled arbitration 

hearing in Phoenix. He 

gets a $3 million signing 

bonus, a $7.25 million 

salary this year and 

$13.75 million in 2012. 

* Steve Garvey 

formed an investment 

group Monday to try to 

buy the L.A. Dodgers. 

“He has the right image 

but it’s in the wrong 

sport,” wrote Argus 

Hamilton. “Late in his 

career Steve Garvey 

fathered three kids by 

three different women, 

but none of the NBA 

teams are currently up for 

sale.” 

* Former major 

league pitcher Woody 

Fryman has died at age 

70. “He is in the Montreal 

Expos Hall of Fame,” 

noted Jim Barach. “Otherwise 

known as the most 

exclusive club in sports.” 

Woody Fryman 

* College baseball 

players are adjusting to 

using safer, less powerful 

bats, says Barach. 

“Apparently they are the 

same type of bats used by 

the New York Mets.” 

* “Wondering how 

Farmers Insurance could 

ever recoup the $700 million 

it's agreed to pay to 

put its name on a proposed 

NFL stadium in 

Los Angeles?” asked 

Perry. “Easy. Just take out 

a $700 million earthquake 

policy on the stadium — 

from All-State.” 

* Comedy writer 

Jerry Perisho, on Farmers 

Insurance buying the 

naming rights to that stadium 

in downtown L.A.: 

“Meanwhile, the 

deductible on that fenderbender 

in downtown L.A. 

just went up to $10,000.” 

* As I wrote this, the 

Cleveland Cavaliers had 

lost 24 straight games to 

set the NBA single-season 

record for most consecutive 

setbacks. The 

Cavs also tied their own 

NBA record for most 

defeats in a row. The 

Cavaliers also dropped 24 

straight contests over the 

1981-82 and 1982-83 seasons. 

“In the NBA last 

season, the Cleveland 

Cavaliers with LeBron 

James were the first team 

to win 40 games,” noted 

Jerry Crowe of the Los 

Angeles Times. “This 

season, without him, they 

were the first to lose 40.” 

As much as I dislike King 

James, the man can play 

basketball. 

* Asked how long the 

streak could continue, 

players said “How many 

more games are left on 

the schedule?” Well, 

that’s what Jim Barach 

thinks. “The worst part 

was getting a sympathy 

card from the Los Angeles 

Clippers.” 

* “In the NBA last 

season, the Cleveland 

Cavaliers with LeBron 

James were the first team 

to win 40 games,” noted 

Jerry Crowe of the Los 

Angeles Times. “This 

season, without him, they 

were the first to lose 40.” 

As much as I dislike King 

James, the man can play 

basketball. 

* Hall of Famer Igor 

Larionov has turned 

down the chance to be the 

general manager of the 

Russian team at the 2014 

Olympics in Sochi. After 

protracted negotiations 

with Russian Ice Hockey 

Federation head Vladislav 

Tretiak, Larionov turned 

down the job because the 

Federation would not 

give him control over 

what players would be 

picked for the team. “If 

you can’t make the decisions, 

you can’t do the 

job,” concluded the man 

they called the Professor. 

“And right now, I have no 

idea who will take the 

job.” Larionov, who still 

lives in Detroit, is now a 

certified player agent. 

* Toronto comedian 

Frenchie McFarlane, on 

hockey icon Wayne Gretzky 

turning 50: “And the 

amazing part? He got 

there in just 39 years.” 

Remember Gretzky’s 

record 50 goals in 39 

games? My need to think 

I have to explain these 

subtle references must be 

annoying to those who 

regularly follow sports. 

* ‘Til next week… 

Gene Hauta

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Surgical 

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The notion that you 

sometimes get from city 

folk that rural people get 

special treatment has 

always been rather irksome. 

If anything, quite the 

opposite is true. And 

nowhere is that more evident 

than in the funding 

formula for local health 

care facilities that requires 

the community to raise 35 

per cent of the capital costs 

before the government 

contributes the final 65 per 

cent. 

Ask a city person what 

he would think of having 

to raise 35 per cent of the 

capital costs of a new hospital 

in Saskatoon or Regina 

through local taxes or 

private donations and you 

would likely get indigent 

outrage. You would be told 

that this is why we have a 

public health system and 

that all taxpayers need to 

contribute equally. 

And all governments _ 

left, right and centre _ 

have defended this practice 

under the auspice that the 

big city hospitals in Regina 

and Saskatoon are there for 

everyone. 

Sure, local contribution 

requirements are one 

way of regulating battles 

between local rivalling 

communities demanding 

that the government build 

a hospital or nursing home 

in their community. 

But as a simply matter 

of fairness, is it justifiable 

that city residents get 100 

per cent of their capital 

costs for hospitals paid for 

while rural residents only 

get 65 per cent? 

To its credit, the 

Saskatchewan Party government 

seems willing to 

address this decades-old 

inequity. Health Minister 

Don McMorris told the 

Saskatchewan Urban 

Municipalities Association 

(SUMA) that his government 

might be willing to 

move off the 65-35 split 

towards something fairer _ 

perhaps an 80-20 split. 

However, many communities 

question whether 

the government is going 

far enough. With increasing 

construction costs, 

other increasing municipal 

expenses and no formula 

in place obligating neighbouring 

communities to 

contribute to the local hospital 

even if that they 

equally benefit, this will 

still be a strain on local 

communities. 

This lack of fairness 

was raised in a recent editorial 

in the Moosomin 

World Spectator. The editorial 

also said government 

should help pay for communities 

that have already 

paid their 35 per cent, noting 

that Moosomin still 

owes $2 million on the $12 

million that had to be 

raised locally for the 

Southeast Integrated Care 

Centre because some 

neighbouring communities 

Rural health treatment inequitable 

by Murray Mandryk 

didn’t contribute at all. 

Yet when asked by 

reporters about these 

issues, McMorris insisted 

that communities usually 

work well together and 

specifically cited Moosomin 

as an example. 

As for eliminating 

local contributions altogether, 

McMorris talked 

about "the community 

pride of paying off their 

share" and "sense of ownership" 

in the facilities 

they help pay for. The 

Health Minister even went 

as far as to suggest that 

some mayors would not be 

very happy "if any government 

went to 100 per cent 

after they've raised 35 per 

cent." 

One gets how there 

might be sincerely frustrating 

if a community that 

already raised its 35 per 

cent was not compensated 

when the government 

changed the rules. But 

should we have such a policy 

in place because of the 

supposed sense of pride it 

Decorations 

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Decorations for Bravery 

recognize people who 

risked their lives to try to 

save or protect another. 

The Decorations were created 

by Her Majesty 

Queen Elizabeth II in 

1972. The Governor General 

personally presents 

the Decorations in ceremonies 

held at Rideau 

Hall, in Ottawa, or at La 

Citadelle, in Québec City. 

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on a regular basis information 

on those in 

Saskatchewan who have 

received decorations for 

bravery. Some have passed 

away, but the importance 

to recognize, remains the 

same. 

Mr. Derek Ronald 

Russell, M.B., 

Saskatoon, 

Saskatchewan 

Medal of Bravery 

Date of Instrument: 

August 28, 1997 

Date of Presentation: 

May 15, 1998 

On August 3, 1996, 

17-year-old Derek Russell 

rescued two teenagers 

whose canoe had capsized 

on Devil's Lake, on the 

Churchill River System, 

north of La Ronge, 

Saskatchewan. A community 

church group was 

canoeing down rapids near 

Otter Falls when one of 

the canoes tipped over and 

was sucked under by the 

swirl as one of the three 

individuals was dragged 

away by rushing waters. 

When Mr. Russell realized 

that the other two boys 

were trapped in a 

whirlpool, he plunged into 

the rapids to their rescue. 

He managed to free one of 

his friends from the boil 

and push him towards the 

canoe that had resurfaced 

downstream from them. 

Meanwhile, the other 

teenager was having trouble 

staying afloat and as 

Mr. Russell reached him, 

he disappeared under the 

surface. Hampered by his 

life jacket, Mr. Russell 

removed it and dove in 

after the victim. He 

grabbed the boy and succeeded 

in pulling him out. 

When the ordeal was over, 

they had drifted more than 

100 meters. 

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gives a community? 

If this is the case, 

some city residents are not 

be very proud. Or worse 

yet, another recent Sask. 

Party health care funding 

must be severely wounding 

their pride. 

McMorris spent much 

of his time in the legislature 

in 2010 defending his 

government's decision to 

I have a 2003 

Altima. When it is 

very cold outside, 

my brake pedal 

becomes very hard 

and I have no 

brakes. I pump the 

pedal a few times 

and then things 

become normal. I 

was wondering if 

you have come 

across this problem 

before and what is 

the solution. The 

same car has another 

problem have to 

prime rad often air 

seems to get in system. 

I often smell 

antifreeze but no 

leak; dealer says 

smell from overflow 

tank. What do you 

think? 

I would say you’re 

Ask the Mechanic 

by Dave Redinger 

provide all kinds of special 

dispensation to a 100-bed, 

private nursing home being 

built for the Saskatoon 

Health Region by a subsidiary 

of the Catholic 

Health Ministry. 

Not only is the facility 

being allowed to charge a 

higher per-bed rate to 

make it more economically 

feasible, but also the government 

is providing a 

loan guarantee for the capital 

expenditure. 

McMorris has called 

this “funding innovation” 

for a facility that might not 

otherwise be built. 

But what it really 

shows is rural folks aren’t 

the ones getting any special 

considerations from 

government. 

MOVING SASKATCHEWAN FORWARD 

SURGERIES SOONER AND SAFER 

Our government is providing additional funding of 

more than $40 million for Saskatchewan’s Surgical 

Initiative, which means: 

more surgeries will be completed next year; 

wait times of no more than 12 months 

by the end of 2011-12 and further shortened wait 

times of no more than three months by 2014; and 

W 

safer, and smarter surgical care within our publicly 

funded, publically administered health system. 

A message from your Saskatchewan Party MLA’s 

having some serious 

issues… 

Let’s go through 

your issues one at a 

time. The brake issue is 

complicated and 

hard to diagnose 

without having 

access to 

the vehicle. 

On the outset 

I should warn 

you against using the 

vehicle until this issue is 

resolved. You describe 

that the pedal has to be 

pumped to get the 

brakes to function. I’m 

assuming that peddle 

has pressure and is just 

stiff. I would suspect 

that the power booster 

is defective. The booster 

is designed to ease the 

force required to engage 

the brakes. Manufactures 

introduced this 

system back in the 40’s 

in an effort to make the 

heavy luxury vehicles 

easier to control. Use of 

the power booster 

became more wide 

spread as disc brakes 

became popular. Look 

for a booster being weak 

due to water or oil in 

the vacuum system or 

the internal diaphragm 

being ruptured. Have 

the tech disconnect the 

vacuum lead to 

the booster 

and see if you 

condition 

remains 

unchanged. 

Another scenario, 

the brakes are 

actually seized due to 

lack of service. Pumping 

them up may actually 

free the pads. Best 

advice; seek out a good 

tech and get it looked at 

ASAP. 

The second issue 

you are writing about 

concerns the engine’s 

cooling system. The 

dealer may be correct if 

you are over filling the 

reservoir bottle. Modern 

cars should not be using 

any coolant period. 

Have the dealer perform 

a leak down test on the 

system and get a definitive 

result. If the vehicle 

is using fluid it could be 

a sign of future engine 

trouble. 

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SCIENCE MATTERS 

by David Suzuki with Dr. Faisal Moola 

David Suzuki 

If a tree falls in 

the International Year 

of Forests, does 

anybody hear? 

The UN General 

Assembly recently met in 

New York to declare 2011 

the International Year of 

Forests. The idea is to 

raise awareness of the 

priceless role that forests 

play in keeping the planet 

healthy and of the need 

for sustainable management 

and conservation of 

all types of forests. The 

International Year of 

Forests follows other lofty 

proclamations by the UN 

to encourage efforts to 

advance social justice and 

environmental sustainability, 

including the 2010 

International Year of Biodiversity, 

the 1993 International 

Year for the 

World's Indigenous People, 

and the somewhat 

unusual naming of 2008 

as the International Year 

of the Potato. 

It’s easy to be cynical 

about the annual declarations 

made by our world 

leaders, especially as 

there’s often a lack of corresponding 

action. Nevertheless, 

the International 

Year of Forests marks a 

critical moment on our 

planet. Our forest ecosystems 

have never been at 

more risk from the consequences 

of human actions, 

including climate change 

and industrial activities. 

But a few events in Canada, 

including the recent 

signing of the Canadian 

Boreal Forest Agreement, 

give us some hope that 

2011 will truly be the Year 

of Forests. 

The world’s remaining 

forests, from true 

wilderness like Canada’s 

boreal forest to urban 

green spaces like the 

forested slopes that frame 

Vancouver, represent a 

Fort Knox of natural riches. 

Forests remain our primary 

source of paper and 

building materials and are 

receiving increasing attention 

as a source of bioenergy 

– all of which sustain 

millions of jobs in 

resource-based communities 

in Canada and around 

the world. 

Forests provide food, 

clean drinking water, and 

life-saving medicines like 

the rainforest-sourced 

cancer drug vincristine. 

They are also home to 

millions of indigenous 

peoples and are habitat for 

over half of all known terrestrial 

biodiversity on the 

planet. And because they 

sequester and store billions 

of tonnes of carbon 

in their vegetation, peat, 

and soils, forests are a 

critical shield against runaway 

global warming. 

Canada’s boreal forest 

alone stores an estimated 

208 billion tonnes of carbon, 

the equivalent of 26 

years worth of global 

greenhouse gas emissions 

from fossil fuel burning. 

Despite the importance 

of forests to biodiversity, 

as well as to our 

own health and wellbeing, 

we continue to 

destroy them at an alarming 

rate. Throughout the 

world and here at home, 

forests and woodlots are 

being ripped up and 

developed, degraded by 

free-for-all oil and gas 

development, and mined 

and logged at a blistering 

pace. Less than a fifth of 

the world’s original intact 

forests remain, and 

although much of the best 

of what’s left is found 

within our own borders, 

Canada is falling down 

when it comes to looking 

after our national natural 

heritage. We continue to 

clear-cut wilderness habitat 

when alternative logging 

methods exist, we 

have no national strategy 

to ensure our remaining 

ancient temperate rainforests 

are protected, and 

provinces like B.C. continue 

to export millions of 

raw logs to be processed 

out of the country. 

At the same time, no 

nation is better placed to 

deliver on the ambitious 

goals of the International 

Year of Forests than 

Canada. This past year, 21 

forestry companies and 

nine environmental 

groups committed to present 

a joint vision to federal, 

provincial, and territorial 

governments and First 

Nations for protection and 

sustainable management 

of Canada’s boreal. This 

Dr. Faisal Moola 

includes new protected 

areas, world-class forestry 

practices, and promotion 

of environmentally sustainable 

Canadian forest 

products in the marketplace. 

The success of the 

Canadian Boreal Forest 

Agreement will depend 

on whether Aboriginal 

people and their governments 

are involved and 

their rights as decisionmakers 

respected. Where 

indigenous peoples have 

come together with environmental 

groups and 

other stakeholders, stunning 

victories have been 

achieved. 

More than half of the 

ancient rainforests of 

Haida Gwaii have now 

been protected, thanks to 

the leadership of the 

Haida First Nation. In 

Central Canada, five 

Anishinaabeg First 

Nations communities in 

Eastern Manitoba and 

Northern Ontario are 

working to have a vast 

intact region of boreal forest 

declared a UNESCO 

World Heritage Site. Covering 

no less than 43,000 

square kilometres, the 

area is called Pimachiowin 

Aki in Ojibwa, 

which means “the land 

that gives life”. 

Forests sustain the 

very life-support systems 

of the planet – clean air, 

pure drinking water, productive 

soil, and healthy 

wildlife populations. It’s 

time we recognized our 

interdependence with 

them and treated them as 

the biological treasures 

they are. 

That's the power of love 

It’s what makes 

women feign interest in 

sporting events, tolerate 

in-laws and pick up a lifetime 

of wet towels and 

stinky socks. 

It’s what makes men 

hold dainty purses outside 

dressing rooms, engage in 

lengthy discussions about 

shades of wall paint and 

suffer through movies with 

titles like Sleepless in 

Seattle and P.S. I Love 

You. 

What could be powerful 

enough to compel people 

to endure so much? 

Love, of course. 

History and literature 

are filled with examples of 

what love can make us do. 

Love is what drove 

Jacob to slave away for 14 

years to earn the right to 

marry his precious Rachel. 

And while Napoleon 

left Josephine because of a 

few indiscretions, her 

name was the last word he 

ever spoke. 

A grieving emperor 

spent 20 years building the 

Taj Mahal in memory of 

his beloved queen. 

And Prince Edward 

gave up his right to the 

British throne to wed the 

love of his life, Wallis 

Simpson. 

Love is what makes 

grown men rifle through 

dozens of pretty pink and 

red greeting cards every 

February, looking for the 

one that compromises their 

masculinity the least, 

while fervently expressing 

their undying devotion the 

most. 

Maybe Hallmark 

could save a lot of time 

and effort by simply issuing 

a card with the inscription: 

I love you because 

you love me…and you’re 

a great cook. 

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“Don’t Mind the Mess” 

by Lori Penner 

Keep it simple and to 

the point. In the end, it’s 

the flowers and the box of 

chocolates that earn the 

big points anyway. 

Someone told me 

recently that men and 

women only want one 

thing from each other. 

(Settle down, it’s not what 

you think.) 

Women, he said, want 

someone who will be their 

hero; their protective 

knight in shining armour. 

Men, on the other 

hand, want an adoring 

princess who will praise 

them and treat them like 

the only person in the 

kingdom who counts. 

If people could just 

work together on that simple 

equation, he said, the 

world would be a much 

happier place. 

I don’t doubt that. The 

problem is that a lot of 

knights don’t mind letting 

their armour get a little tarnished. 

And a princess doesn’t 

sound so sweet when she’s 

constantly whining about 

repairs around the castle. 

If one side doesn’t do 

their part, even a match 

made in heaven can 

CONSERVATIVE 

DISCRIMINATION 

AGAINST SMALL 

BUSINESS 

Additional tax cuts 

for big business are the 

only discernible economic 

policy of the Harper government. 

Let’s put them in context. 

There are about 2.2 

million businesses in 

Canada in total. Mr. 

Harper’s corporate tax 

cuts will benefit about 

110,000 of those businesses. 

That’s 1-in-20, just 

5%. 

The corporations that 

qualify tend to be the 

biggest and wealthiest. 

They already had 

their tax rate cut by 35% 

over the past few years. 

They already had the lowest 

rate in the G-7 (except 

for the UK). They already 

had a 10-point (or 25%) 

rate advantage over the 

United States. In other 

words, their Canadian 

taxes were already “globally 

competitive”. 

How will these extra 

tax cuts (for the privileged 

few) be paid for? With 

borrowed money – $6 billion 

every year. That’s 

because this country is 

mired in a $56 billion 

Conservative deficit. And 

remember, that deficit got 

become a royal pain in the 

neck. 

Love, it seems to me, 

is a daily decision. 

Because no man or 

woman is perfect, we have 

to choose to look past a 

few imperfections. 

We have to figure out 

a way to see the whole 

person, in spite of their 

strange friends, weird 

habits or irritating hobbies. 

We decide what we’re 

willing to live with, and 

what we’re not. If you’re 

lucky, the positive side 

wins out. 

Too many times we 

fall back on that quote 

from the movie, Jerry 

Maguire, looking for 

someone else to complete 

us, not realizing that we 

have to do that for ourselves. 

Expecting another person 

to fulfill your every 

wish and dream only 

works if you’re Cinderella. 

The rest of us have to find 

our own glass slippers. 

But sometimes, dancing 

with a handsome 

prince is worth losing a 

slipper for. 

A weekly commentary by the 

Member of Parliament for Wascana 

(goodale@sasktel.net) 

started through excessive 

Conservative spending 

and risky fiscal practices 

long BEFORE there was 

any recession to blame. 

Will these tax cuts 

stimulate employment? 

Not likely. The Chief 

Economic Analyst for Statistic 

Canada says their 

job-creating value is “trivial”. 

Even the federal 

Finance Department says 

corporate tax cuts are the 

least effective way to create 

immediate jobs. 

Big business is not 

Canada’s primary job creator. 

That important role 

is played by small businesses. 

And the vast 

majority of them don’t 

qualify for these tax cuts. 

In fact, all small businesses 

– indeed every 

employer and employee in 

the country – are facing 

new Conservative TAX 

INCREASES this year. 

The Harper government is 

hiking job-killing payroll 

taxes through higher EI 

premiums. 

Over the next four 

years, these increased 

Conservative payroll taxes 

will rake in a total of 

$16.6 billion! So the vast 

majority of Canadian 

businesses are NOT getting 

any tax cut at all, only 

this recurring payroll tax 

hike.

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Dear EarthTalk: What’s 

the latest research on the 

question of whether cell 

phone use causes cancer? 

William Thigpen, 

via e-mail 

Cell phones have only 

been in widespread use for a 

couple of decades, which is 

far too short a time for us to 

know conclusively whether 

or not using them could 

cause cancer. Research thus 

far appears to indicate that 

most of us have little if anything 

to worry about. 

According to the federally 

funded National Cancer 

Institute, the low-frequency 

electromagnetic radiation 

that cell phones give off 

when we hold them up to 

our heads is “non-ionizing,” 

meaning it cannot cause significant 

human tissue heating 

or body temperature 

increases that could lead to 

direct damage to cellular 

DNA. By contrast, X-rays 

consist of high-frequency 

ionizing electromagnetic 

radiation and can lead to the 

kind of cellular damage 

resulting in cancer. Nonetheless, 

some cell phone users 

and researchers still worry 

about our cell phone usage, 

Psychology for Living 

by Gwen Randall-Young 

Earth Talk 

Photo by Pink Sherbet Photography, courtesy Flickr 

A long term study is underway that will track the cell 

phone usage of 250,000 cell phone users between 

the ages of 18 and 69 over three decades. In addition 

to looking for cancer links, the study will be on the 

lookout for links to neurological diseases such as 

Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. 

given how much we now 

use them and how little we 

know about their potential 

long-term effects. 

The reason the issue 

keeps coming up is that 

some initial studies in 

Europe, where cell phone 

usage caught on a decade 

before the U.S., showed 

links between some forms of 

tumors and heavy cell phone 

usage. As a result, 

researchers teamed up to do 

a more definitive study, 

called the “Interphone” 

study, across 13 countries 

between 2000 and 2004. 

The results, published in 

May 2010 in the peerreviewed 

International Journal 

of Epidemiology, indicated 

no increased risk of 

developing two of the most 

common types of brain 

tumors, glioma and meningioma, 

from typical everyday 

cell phone usage. Study 

participants who reported 

spending the most time on 

their phones showed a 

slightly increased risk of 

developing gliomas, but 

researchers considered this 

finding inconclusive due to 

factors such as recall bias, 

whereby participants with 

Teaching Respect 

Increasingly, parents and teachers share 

stories with me about children or students 

who seemingly have little or no respect for 

authority. I am shocked when I hear about 

children swearing at or even hitting their 

parents. If they get away with this at home, 

it is not surprising that they carry this disrespect 

for adults into the classroom. 

In some cases, these children are only 

modeling the disrespect shown to them by 

adults. It is important for adults to speak 

respectfully to children, even when they are 

angry. If adults break all the rules of healthy 

communication when they are angry, children 

learn to do this too. 

It is never too late to change. Children 

must be taught to respect adults. They may 

feel quite powerless if their parents are rude 

and abusive. However, the behavior of others 

is never justification for inappropriate 

behavior ourselves. 

If a student feels a teacher is treating 

him or her disrespectfully, they must not be 

disrespectful in return. That is not right. 

What they can do, is to follow proper channels 

to make a complaint. 

The sanity and safety of our culture is 

based on rules and respect for the rights of 

others. If children do not have a sense of 

respectful boundaries and behaviors, we 

compromise the future stability of our society. 

If we are mean to children, they will 

become mean adults. Everyone involved, 

both children and adults, has a responsibility 

to work to improve a destructive situation. 

As adults though, we must take the 

lead. 

Gwen Randall-Young is an author and 

award-winning Psychotherapist. 

brain tumors may have simply 

remembered past cell 

phone use differently from 

healthy respondents. 

Researchers looking to 

get past the relatively short 

timing window and the 

recall bias issues of the 

Interphone study recently 

launched a longer term 

study, dubbed COSMOS 

(short for Cohort Study on 

Mobile Communications), 

in Europe. Some 250,000 

cell phone users between the 

ages of 18 and 69 and located 

in Britain, Finland, the 

Netherlands, Sweden and 

Denmark will participate by 

allowing researchers to track 

their cell phone usage and 

health over three decades. 

According to an April 22, 

2010 article in Reuters, the 

study will factor in the use 

of hands-free devices and 

how people carry their 

phones and will also be on 

the lookout for links to neurological 

diseases such as 

Parkinson’s and 

Alzheimer’s. 

There are some precautions 

you can take to minimize 

whatever risk may 

exist. The Federal Communications 

Commission 

(FCC) suggests reserving 

the use of cell phones for 

shorter conversations, or for 

times when a conventional 

phone isn’t available. Also, 

using a hands-free device 

places more distance 

between the phone and your 

head, significantly reducing 

the amount of radiation 

exposure. If the fact that 

many states require handsfree 

devices for using a cell 

phone while driving isn’t 

enough to make you go out 

and spend the extra money 

on such an accessory, maybe 

the cancer risk, perceived or 

real, will. 

CONTACTS: National Cancer 

Institute, www.cancer.gov; INTER- 

PHONE Study, www.rfcom.ca/programs/interphone.shtml; 

COSMOS 

Study, www.ukcosmos.org, FCC, 

www.fcc.gov. 

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Ready to join the Amish 

Cold spells on the 

prairies bring out the best 

in prairie citizens, as they 

endeavor to lend one 

another a helping hand - 

shoveling driveways, lending 

out snowblowers and 

helping out a person in 

need of a push. But on the 

flip side, cold spells can 

bring out the worst in vehicles. 

That’s how it 

appeared during our latest 

freezing temps when our 

vehicle coughed, spit and 

sputtered, but didn’t quite 

have enough power to 

actually start. 

As always, in an effort 

to avoid a trip to the local 

mechanic, we began utilizing 

our own mechanical 

diagnostics, which basically 

entails doing our best to 

rule out all the expensive 

fixes and crossing our fingers 

that an inexpensive 

solution is the answer. 

The car already has a 

few glitches that we tolerate 

rather than pay to have 

corrected, like the passenger 

door that only opens 

from the inside. After having 

it repaired, it broke 

itself all over again, so 

we’ve done our utmost to 

ignore this trivial inconvenience. 

After all, it’s a 

given that if there’s someone 

in the passenger seat, 

Pause for Reflection 

by Ken Rolheiser 

Stay fit and walk 

a block with the 

Lord every day 

A mom was 

concerned about 

her kindergarten 

son Timmy walking 

to school. She 

wanted to give 

him a feeling of 

independence. 

But she also wanted 

to know that he was safe. Her neighbour 

Shirley, who was walking with her 

own daughter, offered to follow him at a 

distance so he wouldn't notice. 

This seemed to work until Timmy's 

friend asked, “Have you noticed that 

lady following us to school all 

week? Do you know her?” 

“Yes,” Timmy replied, “that's 

my mom's friend Shirley Goodnest 

and her little girl Marcy.” 

“Why is she following us?” 

his friend asked. 

“Well,” Timmy explained, 

“every night my mom makes me say 

the 23rd Psalm. It says, ‘Shirley 

Goodnest and Marcy shall follow me all 

the days of my life’. I guess I'll just have 

to get used to it!” 

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could 

have the feeling every day that the Lord 

is beside us and that we are used to his 

presence? Goodness and mercy would be 

with us, and we would be wanting nothing. 

In a spiritual sense that reality can be 

ours, should be ours. 

We all have a holy longing. God calls 

us daily to step out of the secure zone and 

discover the life he calls us to. But we 

Check It Out 

there’s sure to be a corresponding 

human seated in 

the driver’s seat, who can 

easily reach over and open 

the passenger door when 

needed. This strategy 

worked perfectly - until the 

temperature dropped to the 

minus 30 degree mark. 

As soon as the car 

sputtered, coughed and 

refused to start, we 

slammed the door and 

called for a tow. Wouldn’t 

you know it, that’s when 

the driver’s door refused to 

open. 

Up until now I have 

gravitated towards sporty 

looking cars with two 

doors, but now I have been 

successfully converted to 

the four-door family car. 

Why? Simply because the 

odds are much more in 

your favour when you 

have four means of gaining 

entry into a vehicle, rather 

than only two. 

But, thanks to an 

ingenious device my husband 

created, we got 

access to the interior 

through the hatch. Through 

a process of elimination, 

we decided to get the fuel 

pump repaired before the 

doors, since driving the 

vehicle is somewhat of a 

priority. In the mean time 

we need to keep mechanics, 

tow truck drivers and 

first have to listen to that call. Carolyn 

Bassett says, “I’m drawn by the simple 

joy of getting to know the Lord better 

through scripture and meditation… 

“I often remember what a wonderful 

nun told me many years ago when I was 

allowing phone calls and other distractions 

to interrupt my prayer. ‘Carolyn, 

unless you spend quiet time with the 

Lord, you’re not going to have anything 

of lasting value to give others you meet 

that day’” (The Word Among Us, January 

2011, p.61). 

Jesus does speak to us in scripture. 

The most familiar passage will inspire 

deeper thoughts if we visit it in silence 

with the Lord present. A recent example 

comes to mind from John 15: “I am the 

true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 

Every branch that bears no 

fruit he cuts away, and every branch 

that does bear fruit he prunes to 

make it bear even more.” 

How often I had heard this passage. 

And now the Lord was 

pointing out to me that with the 

changes of age and cancer surgery, 

my physical life was changing, but 

my spiritual life was being enhanced. 

It is our choice whether we remain 

attached to the vine or become “like a 

branch that has been thrown away…these 

are collected and thrown on the fire”(6). 

We can walk daily with the Lord. In 

fact in John 15 Jesus tells us, “I chose 

you; and I commissioned you to go out 

and bear much fruit” (16). As we lay 

down our lives for others, Jesus will 

share with us everything he has learned 

from the Father (13). 

ourselves mindful that a 

window must remain open 

in order to get into the car. 

Of course, the next stop 

will be to a body shop to 

get the doors repaired, 

because, although having 

an operating vehicle is 

obviously a first priority, 

being able to get into it 

comes in as a very close 

second. 

The up side of all of 

this is I have gained a 

deeper appreciation for the 

simple things in life, like 

opening a car door, sitting 

down, receiving a 

favourable response when 

you turn the key, and smiling 

at the passenger as he 

or she independently opens 

the door. I’m sure the 

Amish community could 

relate, as they too hold a 

deep appreciation of the 

simple things in life as 

they drive their buggies 

drawn by horse power of 

the four-legged kind. I 

have to confess, their mode 

of transportation was 

beginning to hold some 

appeal. However, a heated 

interior is high on my list 

of options and four-legged 

horse power exhaust is a 

nuisance to clean off one’s 

driveway. 

Joan Janzen

Psychology of color 

Skillful interior decorating 

is largely an artistic 

endeavor, but there’s some 

science involved also, and 

none more important than 

the psychology of color. 

Blue, which often ranks 

at the top of surveys exploring 

“favorite” colors, has 

been shown to slow pulse 

rate and lower body temperature 

Ġreen, also among the 

most popular colors, is a little 

more versatile. While it, 

too, has a soothing effect, it 

also represents renewal, 

youth, and vigor. 

Red, bespeaks energy 

and excitement, actually 

raising the blood pressure 

and making the heart beat 

faster. Because red is associated 

with desire and passion, 

it’s a perfect paint color for 

dining rooms and adult bedrooms 

but wrong for children’s 

rooms. Yet, ironically, 

pink – a very light tint of 

red – is one of the most 

calming colors, and is a fine 

choice for a baby’s room. 

Yellow is a great interior 

paint color. Like sunshine, 

it imparts happiness, 

hope, and optimism. Studies 

have shown that the 

brain actually releases more 

seratonin when the eye takes 

in yellow – creating positive 

psychological vibes. Yellow 

can even stir our creative 

juices. What better color to 

use in a master bath or 

Village of Vibank 

The Village of Vibank is accepting applications for 

the position of Maintenance Operator. Applicants 

must possess a valid Driver’s License, be an 

ambitious self starter, able to work independently, 

able to operate and service various equipment and 

have knowledge of municipal operations, boiler 

systems and water and sewer infrastructure. 

The applicant will possess a valid Water Operators 

Certificate or be in the process of an Operator in 

Training. Council will look at providing training for 

the right candidate. 

Applications must be received by February 25, 2011. 

Applicants are asked to submit their resume including 

qualifications, experience, references and salary 

expectations to: 

The Village of Vibank 

Box 204 

Vibank, Sask. 

S0G 4Y0 

Tel: 762-2130 

Fax: 762-4722 

dinette to get your day off 

on the right foot? 

Orange is also a happy 

color. More attention-getting 

than yellow, orange has an 

energy and warmth about it. 

Muddy shades are useful in 

many parts of the home, but 

vivid tones may appear raw 

and flamboyant. Orange is 

clearly not the color of calm, 

so it’s best to bypass it when 

painting a bedroom or any 

other area where you want 

to relax. 

Purple is a tricky paint 

color wherever it’s used, but 

it is the overwhelming 

favorite of adolescent girls. 

Reserve use of this color for 

your daughter’s room to create 

a win-win situation: 

Odds are, she’ll love it, and 

you can take comfort in purple’s 

proven ability to stimulate 

brain activity. 

Black is a great accent 

color indoors or out, imparting 

elegance, formality, and 

sophistication to a paint 

color scheme. But don’t get 

carried away with it, too 

much black can be depressing. 

White, on the other 

hand, conveys peace, simplicity, 

and spaciousness. It 

can provide a crisp finish to 

almost any paint job by 

adding sharp contrast to the 

wall color. Used throughout 

a room, it can give the illusion 

that the space is bigger 

than its physical dimensions. 

Second highest on record 

Saskatchewan's building 

permits were the second-highest 

ever recorded 

according to Statistics 

Canada in a report released 

on February 7, 2011. 

Building permits in 

2010 totalled $2.1 billion 

(seasonally unadjusted), 

just shy of the $2.2 billion 

recorded in 2008. Residential 

permits were up 42.2 

per cent on average 

between 2009 and 2010, the 

second highest percentage 

increase among the 

provinces. 

Out of all 

Saskatchewan cities, 

Melville had the highest 

percentage increase in overall 

building permits in 2010 

when compared with 2009, 

followed by Weyburn, 

Prince Albert and Melfort. 

In residential building permits, 

Humboldt recorded 

the highest increase with 

Estevan placing second and 

Saskatoon third. 

RCMP - Lumsden - Theft 

of snowmobile 

On the evening of the 

29th of January 2011 

between 6:30 PM and 

09:30 PM, a snowmobile 

was stolen from the front 

yard of a residence located 

on Deerfoot Trail in the 

community of Deer Valley, 

Sk. The snowmobile is a 

2001 Polaris Indy Classic, 

red in colour with plate 

117AK (Sask). 

If you have information 

about this or any other 

crime, please contact 

Lumsden Detachment at 

306-731-4270 or you may 

call Saskatchewan Crime 

Stoppers at 1-800-222- 

TIPS (8477). 

RCMP "F" Division - 

Highway #1 @ Belle 

Plaine = UPDATE 

At around 10:00 a.m. 

February 11, 2011, the 

Regina Detachment 

responded to a single motor 

vehicle collision just 1 km 

east of Belle Plaine on the 

#1 hwy. The 2005 Blue 

Dodge Grand Caravan lost 

control on the icy and snow 

covered hwy and rolled 

into the center median 

where it came to a stop on 

its side. All 4 of the occupants 

were transported to a 

Regina hospital with undisclosed 

injuries. The RCMP 

arrived on scene and there 

was another vehicle in the 

north side ditch, that Club 

Towing was attempting to 

tow out. This 2002 Blue 

Chevrolet Venture Van had 

been there from last night. 

Cones and a hwy sign 

advising of the accident 

scene ahead was enacted 

just east of this scene. 

About 30 minutes later a 

2006 Grey Nissan Sentra 

did a "Dukes of Hazzard" 

and while the ramp of the 

tow truck was down, the 

Nissan drove up the ramp 

and landed on its roof in 

the middle of the hwy. The 

2 occupants from this vehicle 

were also transported to 

a Regina hospital with 

undisclosed injuries. 

Moments later a 2006 

Black Chevrolet Impala 

lost control on the hwy and 

slid into the ditch near this 

There was once a civil 

engineer who found a 

magic lamp. When he 

rubbed it, a genie jumped 

out and said to him, "You 

have three wishes. But 

there is a catch - this wish 

system of mine was 

designed by a lawyer, so 

whatever you wish for 

every lawyer in the world 

will get double of!" 

The engineer replied, 

"That's no problem, I can 

live with that." 

He then said, "For my 

first wish, I wish I had a 

Ferarri." "OK", said the 

genie, and a Ferarri 

appeared in front of the 

engineer. "But remember, 


RCMP Reports across the province 

Humour 

same accident scene. 

No names of the occupants 

have been disclosed 

and the police are looking 

at charges under the Traffic 

Safety Act against the 

Dukes of Hazzard driver, 

whose name has also not 

been disclosed. 

The Police did not witness 

this event, but some 

members of the public, at 

the scene, did. 

The RCMP are 

reminding the public that 

the speed limit when passing 

emergency vehicles 

and tow trucks, with their 

emergency lights engaged, 

are to reduce their speed to 

60 kms/hr. 

RCMP - Maidstone 

Fatal Snowmobile 

Collision 

Maidstone RCMP are 

investigating a fatal snowmobile 

collision which 

occurred on February 11 

around 5:30 pm. near 

Maidstone. David Stewart, 

51, of Maidstone was 

killed when his snowmobile 

struck an oilfield site 

containment berm. Speed 

appears to have been a factor. 

RCMP are asking snow 

machine operators to be 

familiar with their surroundings 

before traveling 

on them at high speeds. 

If you have information 

please call Lloydminster 

Rural/Maidstone 

RCMP at 310-RCMP 

(7267) or 306-893-4800 or, 

if you wish to remain 

anonymous, Saskatchewan 

Crime Stoppers at 1-800- 

222-8477. 

RCMP - Prince Albert 

Commercial Fire 

On Friday, February 11 

at approximately 11:30 

p.m., Prince Albert RCMP 

and the City of Prince 

Albert Fire Dept. responded 

to a fire at "Ace of Diamonds 

Paint & Body", 

located south of Prince 

Albert on Highway #2. At 

the time of this press 

release, the RCMP remain 

on scene providing traffic 

control and scene security 

while the fire dept. continues 

to deal with flare-ups. 

There are no reported 

injuries at this time and 


now has 2 Ferarris," the 

genie told the engineer. 

The engineer 

remained unperturbed and 

said, "For my second wish, 

I wish for a million 

bucks." 

So a million bucks 

appeared in front of the 

engineer and the genie 

said, "remember, now 


has 2 million bucks." 

The engineer was noncommittal 

and then said, 

"You know, I always 

wished I could donate a 

kidney!" 

Contributed 

there is no danger to surrounding 

businesses. 

A cause for the fire has 

not yet been determined. 

Further investigation by the 

Provincial Fire Commissioner's 

Officer and an 

RCMP fire investigator 

will be conducted once the 

fire has been extinguished 

and it is safe to enter the 

scene. 

Fort Qu'Appelle 

Fatal MVA 

On 2011-02-12 at 

approximately 0340 am, 

Fort Qu'Appelle RCMP 

responded to a single vehicle 

roll-over 9 kms east of 

Balcarres on Highway #10. 

The vehicle was traveling 

east-bound when it lost 

control and entered the 

ditch and rolled on to it's 

side. A 33 year old male 

was transported by EMS to 

Fort Qu'Appelle All 

Nations Healing Hospital 

but succumbed to his 

injuries prior to arrival. 

Two other occupants were 

transported to Balcarres 

Integrated Hospital as a 

precaution and were 

released. RCMP are not 

releasing the name of the 

deceased pending notification 

of next of kin. Fort 

Qu'Appelle RCMP are continuing 

to investigate with 

the assistance of Regina 

Traffic Services and File 

Hills Police Service. 

RCMP - Maple Creek 

Detachment - Police 

Charge Adult and Youthfor 

String of Thefts from 

Vehicles 

Maple Creek RCMP 

Detachment have charged 

19 year old adult, Aaron 

Wensink and a local youth 

for a string of thefts from 

vehicles and mischiefs that 

occurred on Friday night, 

February 11th, earlier Saturday 

morning February 

12th, along 5 Avenue and 

Myers Cres. As a result of 

a police investigation conducted 

Saturday, Wensink 

was arrested the same day. 

He was charged with 8 

criminal code offences 

ranging from theft under 

$5,000.00 to mischief. He 

was released by a Justice of 

the Peace on several strict 

conditions with a nightly 

curfew of 8 pm to 8 am. 

The youth was arrested 

Sunday, February 13th on 

15 charges and a Canada 

Wide warrant out of Alberta 

for breaching a Deferred 

Custody/Conditinoal 

Supervision Order. The 

youth was remanded and 

appeared in Kindersley's 

Court. 

Maple Creek RCMP 

continues to investigate 

incidents from this theft 

spree. Any members of the 

public who have information 

in relation to this are 

asked to contact the Maple 

Creek Detachment at 

(306)662-5550. 

Police want to remind 

citizens to take valuables 

out of their vehicles. If they 

must leave valuables in the 

vehicle, the best place is 

secured in the trunk. 

RCMP Estevan 

Fatal Collision 

Members of the Estevan 

RCMP Detachment 

investigated a two vehicle 

collision on Highway #18, 

14 kms west of Estevan. A 

head on collision, involving 

a small passenger car 

and semi tractor unit, 

occurred at approximately 

6:45 am on February 14, 

2011. The 20 year old 

female driver of the car 

was pronounced dead at the 

scene. The driver of the 

semi unit was not injured. 

Road conditions and alcohol 

are not believed to have 

been a factor in the collision. 

A coroner and a traffic 

collision analyst attended 

the scene and an investigation 

is continuing. The 

road had been closed all 

day and traffic had been rerouted 

but it is now open 

again. No names of the persons 

involved are being 

released at this time. 

TENDER FOR SALE 

The Town of Cupar offers for sale by tender the 

following property: 

Lot 3 & 4 Block 2 Plan D4304 

(Lot and Building only) 

A tender must be submitted in a sealed envelope 

marked “A Property Tender” addressed to the: 

Town of Cupar 

116 Stanley Street 

Box 397 

Cupar, SK S0G 0Y0 

Tenders must be postmarked by 4:30 pm on 

March 8, 2011 

A certified cheque to the municipality for 5% of 

the amount of the tender must accompany the 

tender. 

Highest, or any tender, not necessarily accepted. 

Dated February 10, 2011 

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Town of Cupar


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Saskatchewan experienced 

an increase in the 

number of live births in 

the province in 2010. To 

date, there have been 

14,978 live births registered 

in Saskatchewan in 

2010, compared to 14,536 

for 2009. 

These numbers were 

compiled by Information 

Services Corporation 

(ISC), which administers 

the province's Vital Statistics 

Registry. This information 

does not include 

those babies born outside 

the province to 

Saskatchewan mothers. 

ISC also compiles the 

most popular baby names 

in Saskatchewan each 

year. In 2010, Emma and 

Liam were the most popular 

names for babies born 

in Saskatchewan. Emma 

was also the number one 

name for baby girls in 

2009. Liam, which was the 

second most popular name 

for baby boys in 2009, 

beat out Ethan as the most 

popular name for baby 

boys in 2010. 

Ethan had been the 

New CEO 

If you've ever worked 

for a boss who reacts 

before getting the facts 

and thinking things 

through, you will love 

this! 

A company, feeling it 

was time for a shakeup, 

hired a new CEO. The 

new boss was determined 

to rid the company of all 

slackers. 

On a tour of the facilities, 

the CEO noticed a 

guy leaning against a wall. 

The room was full of 

workers and he wanted to 

let them know that he 

meant business. He asked 

the guy, “How much 

money do you make a 

week?” 

A little surprised, the 

young man looked at him 

and said, “I make $400 a 

week. Why?” 

The CEO said, “Wait 

right here.” He walked 

back to his office, came 

back in two minutes, and 

handed the guy $1,600 in 

cash and said, “Here’s four 

weeks’ pay. Now GET 

OUT and don’t come 

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Feeling pretty good 

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looked around the room 

and asked, “Does anyone 

want to tell me what that 

goof-ball did here?” 

From across the room 

a voice said, “Pizza delivery 

guy from Domino’s.” 

Contributed 

number one name for baby 

boys for nine consecutive 

years; in 2010, Ethan fell 

to the number two spot. 

Jacob took the number 

three position; it has been 

a top 10 favourite since 

2002. 

Ava and Olivia were 

the second and third most 

popular names for baby 

girls born in 2010. 

Sophia, Sophie, 

Isabella and Sydney were 

added to the list of top 20 

names for baby girls, 

while Hailey, Grace, Addison 

and Taylor fell from 

the top 20. For baby boys, 

Hayden, Jack, Samuel, 

Andrew and Rylan made it 

into the top 20. Aiden, 

Joshua, Carson, Jayden 

and James dropped out of 

the top 20. 

Letter to the Editor 

Dear Editor, 

It has generally been 

accepted over the years 

that government taxes on 

gasoline should be used 

for road construction and 

repair or other infrastructure 

projects. The federal 

government’s expected 

plans to change the rules 

as to how these taxes can 

be used may apparently 

fund a major NHL hockey 

arena in Quebec City. 

Currently, cities and 

towns can access a shared 

fund of over $2 billion 

from the federal gas taxes 

you pay when you fill up 

at the pumps. Municipalities 

have the right to 

choose how they spend 

these funds. Until now the 

government has been clear 

that the funds are to be 

used for infrastructure 

projects like roads, sewers 

ANDREW SCHEER 

Member of Parliament 

Report for Regina-Qu’Appelle 

and water treatment systems. 

Apparently, federal 

government plans to 

change the rules will 

expand what municipal 

projects qualify to access 

the gas tax fund. 

I expect there will be 

problems if a municipality 

funds entertainment projects 

with the gasoline tax. 

Especially, when they hike 

your taxes to fund repairs 

and improvements for 

roads, sewers and water 

treatment facilities. Does 

it make sense to fund 

entertainment facilities 

with gas tax revenue in the 

face of deteriorating infrastructures 

across the country? 

Watch for this issue 

at the next election and 

you decide. 

Yours truly, 

Larry Birkbeck 

Regina, SK 

Canada: Five Years of Conservative Government 

Recently, Michael Ignatieff has indicated his desire to force an election this 

spring. In his speeches, he has asked Canadians to give his party a chance at 

governing. He has started to ask the question: “Is Canada better off today than it 

was five years ago?” 

Let’s take a look at a few key policy areas, to see if we can help the Liberal 

Leader answer his own question: 

Taxes – This is an easy answer. There is no doubt or debate about whether or 

not Canadians have a better tax system today than five years ago. The overall tax 

rate on families and individuals is at the lowest level since John Diefenbaker. 

Conservatives have cut the GST from 7% to 5%, lower personal income tax rates, 

brought in pension splitting for seniors, introduced a $2000 per child tax credit and 

a new $1000 tax credit on for all workers. The average family of four pays over 

$3000 less in taxes than it did just five years ago. That is a significant amount of 

money left in the pockets of families, instead of government coffers. 

Crime – For decades, Canada’s criminal justice system put the rights of 

criminals ahead of honest Canadians. Our government has started to change that 

by getting tough on repeat and dangerous criminals. By doing things like 

restricting parole for violent offenders, introducing mandatory prison time for 

repeat offences and eliminating pardons for criminals convicted of sexual 

offences, we are restoring integrity to Canada’s judicial system. 

Agriculture – The Conservative Government has accomplished a great deal in 

a short time. Replacing CAIS with new programs like Agri-Stability, Agri-Invest 

and Agri-Recovery has made business risk management programs better. While 

there is still more work to do, the new programs have addressed many of the 

concerns with the old programs. 

Dealing with the Global Recession – There is no doubt that Canada has 

endured the global recession better than other countries around the world. This is 

in large part thanks to the foresight of the Conservative government during our 

first few years in office. By paying down large amounts of debt in 2006, 2007 and 

2008, Canada had more flexibility to respond to the recession. Also, by lowering 

job-killing taxes on businesses of all sizes, and making sure that stimulus spending 

was actually going towards projects with clear economic benefits, we made sure 

that Canada was spared the worst of the global turmoil. 

Trade – Canada is a trading nation. Under the previous Liberal government, 

Canada accomplished very little in terms of opening new markets to Canadian 

agricultural and manufactured goods. Under the Conservatives, we have 

aggressively opened new markets in South America, Europe and the Middle East. 

Our next focus is on India and Asia. Better access means better prices for 

livestock, grains and finished products. 

It has not been easy to provide a stable response to the needs of Canadians. 

We face an opposition in the House that opposes us at every turn. When we paid 

down the debt, the opposition said we should spend more money. When we 

lowered taxes, the opposition said we should keep taxes high. When we got tough 

on criminals, the opposition said we were being to harsh. When we invested more 

in infrastructure to create jobs and keep Canadians working, the opposition voted 

against our new programs. 

While Canada still has significant challenges in the coming months and years, 

there is no doubt that Prime Minister Harper and the Conservative government 

have been working hard to make life better for Canadians. 

For more information on this issue, 

please contact my office at 1-306-332-2574 

or by email at scheea@parl.gc.ca

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