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Social Credit: a concept relevant todayIn past articles on mone-

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Just 23% of respondents felt they had benefi ted from the Alberta boom, with it be-ing likely many of these are involved with the oil and gas industry. 32% of respondents

Once again, behind the jingoistic headlines of the mainstream press is a somewhat different reality. On a wider scale, research shows the average worker

is taking home less in-come per hour worked than 20 years ago. All this is occurring while technology is able to produce more and more real wealth, with less and less work. It is as if a mechanic keeps putting bigger and big-ger engines in your ve-hicle, and yet the truck keeps going slower and

slower. At what point is it time to get a new mechan-ic? Substitute mechanic for mainstream economist, and the drawbacks of our 300

felt they had neither gained nor suffered, with any in-creases in income being off-set by increases in the cost of living. A full 45% identifi ed with the answer “I’m falling

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American airline, a man is surprised to see a parrot strapped in next to him. He asks the stewardess for a coffee where upon the parrot squawks “and get me a whisky you turtle!” The stewardess, fl ustered, brings back a whisky for the parrot and forgets the coffee.

When this omission is pointed out to her the parrot drains its glass and bawls “get me another whisky, cow”. Quite up-set, the girl comes back shaking with another whisky but still no coffee.

Unaccustomed to such slackness the man decides to try the parrot’s approach: “I’ve asked you twice for a coffee, go and get it now or you’ll feel the end of my boot”.

The next moment, both he and the parrot have been wrenched up and thrown out of the emergency exit by two burly stewards who had been lurking behind the upset stew-ardess. Plunging downwards the parrot turns to the man and says “You know, for someone who can’t fl y, you complain too much!”

Skidiving for dummiesThere was a student that had a chance to learn the sport

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As he was falling rapidly towards earth, his momemtum made it seem like there was a man shooting up towards him. As he passed the man, the student yelled!

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The Struggle Against the “War on Drugs”

By Gwynne Dyer

Barry Cooper’s new DVD, Never Get Busted Again, which went on sale over the internet late last month, will probably not sell very well outside the United States, because in most other countries the possession of marijuana for personal use is treated as a misdemean-our or simply ignored by the police. But it will sell very well in the US, where many thousands of casual marijuana users are hit with savage jail terms every year in a nationwide game of Russian roulette in which most people indulge their habit unharmed while a few unfortunates have their lives ruined.

Barry Cooper is a former Texas policeman who made over 800 drug arrests as an anti-narcotics offi cer, but he has now repented: “When I was raiding homes and destroying families, my conscience was telling me it was wrong, but my need for power, fame and peer acceptance overshadowed my good conscience.” Of course, Cooper’s DVD, which teaches people how to avoid arrest for marijuana possession, will also bring him fame, plus a lot of money, but at least it won’t hurt people.

However, Cooper lacks the courage of his own con-victions. He argues that the war on drugs is futile and coun-ter-productive so far as marijuana is concerned, but nervously insists that he is offering no tips that would help dealers of cocaine or methamphetamines to escape “justice”. It’s as if reformers fi ghting against America’s alcohol prohibition laws in the 1920s had advocated re-legalising beer but wanted to continue locking up drinkers of wine or spirits. But there are bolder policemen around, who are willing to say fl atly and publicly that all drug prohibition is wrong.

One is Jack Cole, 26 years with the New Jersey police, whose organisation, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (Leap), is supported by growing numbers of serving police-men who have lost faith in the “War on Drugs” and want to make peace. “Leap wants to end drug prohibition just as we ended alcohol prohibition in 1933,” says Cole, who argues that neither kind of prohibition has ever had any success in curbing consumption of the banned substances, but that each has fuelled the growth of a vast criminal empire.

It is policemen who take the lead in these issues be-cause they are the ones who must deal with the calamitous consequences of the “War on Drugs.” No doubt the use of

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January 9, 2007 - The Whitecourt Rodeo will be mov-ing to the Westward Community Centre in 2008. The future of the Whitecourt Rodeo has been the topic of numerous discussions between the Town, Woodlands County, Rodeo Association and Agricultural Society. The move was origi-nally addressed during discussions on the long-term plans for Rotary Park and the increasing need within the com-munity for useable open space and parks. Rotary Park has been a good venue for the event over the past several years, however, the Agricultural Society site is better suited to the needs of the annual event and the Agricultural Society is looking forward to working with the Whitecourt Rodeo As-sociation.

At its January 8 regular meeting, Whitecourt Town Council received an update on the Whitecourt Woodlands Multi-Use Facility Project. Over the course of the past sev-eral months, input has been gathered from the Community Services Advisory Board, the general public and Town Council on how to better meet long-term community needs. As a result the following features were added to the proj-ect:

• Racquetball and squash courts• Larger deck area around the aquatic area• Addition space for pool viewing and greater fi eld-

house seating on the second fl oor• Separate change rooms and extra space for the fi tness

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With the above-mentioned enhancements, the project cost is estimated at $22,213,500. The Town is continuing to pursue fi nancial support for the project through various grant programs, and fund raising plans are being developed. To date, four out of the six project tenders have come in under budget, and fi nal project costs will be confi rmed in February 2007.

Bylaw 1405, which provides borrowing capabilities to assist with doctor recruitment, has received fi rst reading. If passed, Bylaw 1405 would allow the Town of Whitecourt to provide revolving, interest free loans to the Friends of Whitecourt Society to enhance doctor recruitment to the community. The bylaw will return to Council for fi nal ap-proval in February 2007.

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as well as main and collector roads, and are now proceeding to clear residential streets.

Please comply with “No Parking’ signs posted in your neighbourhood in order for road maintenance prac-tices to proceed without delay. Always remember to use caution around equipment working in your neighbourhood. Your cooperation and patience is greatly appreciated.

If you require further information on snow removal policies, please visit the Town’s website at www.whitecourt.ca or contact the Planning and Works Department at 778-2273.

January 23, 2007 - Lots in Phase IV of the Hilltop East Industrial Area will soon be available for purchase. Town Council has approved a new process for selling the serviced land to accommo-date the high level of interest and to ensure equal opportunity for interested buyers. The new practice has been modeled af-ter the City of Edmonton’s process for selling land that has been in use for several years. The new system will require interested parties to submit applications for purchase that will then be reviewed on a fi xed date, with the best application being selected to enter into a sales agreement. The applica-

(Continued from page 5) tion deadline and application review dates will be advertised to the public when confi rmed. For more information on the selling process and available property in the Hilltop East In-dustrial Area, please contact Don Swant at 778-2273.

Whitecourt Town Council is gearing up for the 2007 Municipal Election, and has decided to provide residents the opportunity to request spe-cial ballots. Special ballots will be available to residents unable to vote at the Advance Vote and on Election Day. Those wishing to take advan-tage of this process will be able to apply for a special ballot in writing, by fax or by email prior to Election Day. Town Council has also autho-rized an Advance Vote and Institutional Vote. Further details on all election processes will be provided to the community closer to the October 2007 Municipal Election.

Bylaw 1406: The Police and Fire Depart-ment False Alarm Bylaw, was passed on January 22, 2007. The bylaw outlines user fees charged for police and fi re re-sponses to false alarms. The Bylaw stipulates that a fee of $200.00 will be charged for the second and subsequent false alarm response from either emergency service department. For a copy of the bylaw, please visit the Town’s website at www.whitecourt.ca.

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UNICEF celebrates 60 years for children

GNA - Six decades after its inception as a temporary re-lief agency, UNICEF is marking its 60th anniversary today, celebrating its many achievements on behalf of children all over the world.

Born from the ashes of World War II, UNICEF’s fi rst mission was to provide milk, food, blankets and medicine to millions of European children left hungry, homeless and weakened by war. Serving more than six million meals a day, it quickly earned the nickname, “milkman to the world’s children.”

Once the children of Europe were on their way to re-covery, UNICEF broadened its mandate beyond European borders to help children suffering from poverty and illness throughout the world. Ever since then UNICEF has been on an evolutionary journey, adapting to meet the needs of chil-dren in an ever changing world.

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Thank you callers.Identitys have been supplied for the mystery ladies from

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Mystery Lady #2 was given as Tammy Bouchard, who is now Tammy McIntosh.

Some have been wondering who is the person who gave this photo to the Advisor. While sworn to secrecy, we can say that this Mystery Lady #3 is in the photograph below.

• Giving Vitamin A supplements to children has helped reduce mortality by about 25 per cent in areas where child death rates are high.

• Campaigning for the production of iodized salt to re-duce the risk of mental disability caused by iodine defi ciency. An estimated 70 per cent of all households in the developing world now consume iodized salt, sparing millions of children the risk of mental disability.

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• Returning hundreds of thousands of children affected by armed confl ict and natural disaster to school thanks to the invention of UNICEF’s school-in-a-box.

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Highlights of the 60th anniversary celebration include a commemorative meeting at the UN General Assembly, the screening of a new UNICEF documentary, “Wake Up World,” a photo exhibit and multi-media art show entitled, “Mosaic UNICEF,” and, of course, a celebration with children

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“recreational” drugs does a lot of harm, as does the use of alcohol or tobacco, but that harm is dwarfed by the amount of crime and human devastation caused by forty years of “war” on drug-us-ers.

Howard Roberts, the deputy chief constable of the Nottinghamshire police, was the latest senior police-man to make the case for ending the war, pointing out last November that heroin addicts in Britain each com-mit, on average, 432 robber-ies, assaults and burglaries a year to raise the money for their illegal habit. Each ad-dict steals about $90,000 of property a year, whereas the cost of providing them with heroin on prescription from the National Health Service

in closely supervised treat-ment programmes would be only $24,000 a year.

So the NHS should provide heroin to addicts on prescription, said Roberts, like it used to in the 1950s and 1960s, before Britain was pressured into adopting the “war on drugs” model by the US. (Since then, the number of heroin addicts in Britain has risen several hundredfold.) Days later, it emerged that the NHS is ac-tually experimenting with a return to that policy at three places in Britain -- and Swit-zerland has actually been prescribing heroin to addicts

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Social credit is one concept that deals with looking at the root causes of poverty in the midst of plenty. Once again, it matters not which political party enacts needed change, as long as the change takes place. Indeed, original social credit policy strictly forbade the formation of political parties, sim-ply because it was felt the truth would be sacrifi ced in a strug-gle for political power. Pragmatism has tempered this view somewhat, but the overall idea remains that is the ‘what’ is important, not the ‘who’ for any signifi cant moral advance-ment. That said, the following is an article on some basic social credit ideas as published on the Alberta Social Credit Party website.

An Introduction to Social Credit

By Martin Hattersley and Dan Parker

The centuries have seen a continual struggle by ordinary people to gain control of their lives from forces that would tyrannize them.

They have fought against the powers of priests, to bring the world freedoms of speech and religion.

They have rebelled against the powers of kings, to give us Magna Carta, Constitutional Monarchy, and Parliamentary Government.

They have overturned the power of class privilege, by extending the vote to all.

They have gained power to prevent the Government and the police from oppressing individual rights, through an independent judiciary, the Charter of Rights and the Jury system.

But the power of fi nance is so easily hidden that no effec-

tive way has yet been put in place by which the people as a whole can control it for their benefi t.

In fact, what has happened as a result of the poor work-ings of the money system is that Socialist and Communist policies have been adopted by governments in order to deal with the problems of poverty.

Long established freedoms have been taken away. Mar-keting boards have interfered with the rights of private prop-erty. Heavy taxation has taken away the taxpayers’ dollars, and so their ability to choose and pay for their own way of living their lives. To avoid one tyrant, we have been forced to submit to another.

Yet poverty remains, with growing homelessness and increasing use of food banks. Social Credit founder C. H.

Douglas pointed out the reason for this. Imposed top down solutions are short-lived, if they work at all. He stated:

“Systems were made for people, and not peo-ple for systems, and the interest of people, which is self-development, is above all systems, wheth-er theological, political or economic...We must build up from the individual, not down from the State”. (Economic Democracy. (1920) pp. 6,7)

“The upheaval with which we are faced is one which appears under different forms in every aspect of human life. It is the agelong struggle between freedom and authority, between external compulsion and internal initia-tive, in which all the command of resources, information, religious dogma, educational system, political opportunity and even, apparently, economic necessity, is ranged on the side of authority; and ultimate authority is now exercised through fi nance.” (Ibid. page 79)

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choose to lead, without unnecessary compulsion from out-side, that the Social Credit movement is dedicated.

It is on the basis of this philosophy that the Alberta Social Credit Party has created its principles and policies.

We start with the individual’s power to choose. Alberta’s laws must protect Albertans from socialist controls and capi-talist economic exploitation.

We continue with truly democratic government. As far as it is physically possible and morally right, politicians must give the people the results they want in the management of their public affairs.

A third objective is economic security, an aim to be achieved without sacrifi ce of our personal freedom of choice. That is: a free enterprise solu-tion to poverty.

What is physically possible and morally right, can and should be made fi nancially possible. Econ-omists or politicians who say this can’t be done are blinded to the truth. One only has to look back to the Great Depression, when it was held that it is was fi nancially impossible to provide much of the population with freedom from want. Yet as soon as World War II started, virtually unlimited amounts of fi nan-cial activity, and the resultant production became possible. The reality is that money is strictly symbolic in nature and revolves around physical productive capacity.

There is no physical, or real, reason that such spending as that which happened for WWII could not take place for a war against poverty and pollution. It is sheer nonsense to say we can spend money on bombs to blow up, but we cannot spend money to create well-being or real wealth in a community. Infl ation is not a problem if the process of ending poverty is designed properly.

Yet rather than centralized, socialistic spending to end poverty, Social Credit advocates giving each and every citi-zen a National Dividend. The individual then decides how the money will be spent, not the government. The result is that the most effi cient and productive members of a community will thrive, since people naturally spend their money where they will get the most value for it. At the same time as the most productive get rich, no one has to worry about basic needs, as they will always have the income from their dividend.

The moral justifi cation for providing a national dividend to each and every citizen is that most wealth creation is now made possible through the inventions and innovations of peo-ple who passed on long ago. This contribution to wealth is a cultural heritage and belongs to all. Alaska has taken the fi rst steps in recognizing this by providing every man, women and

child with a yearly dividend. Much more than this is possible under a reformed fi nancial system.

Again to quote Douglas:

“The breakup of the present fi nancial and so-cial system is certain. Nothing will stop it: ...the continuation of taxation on the present scale, to-gether with an unsolved employment problem, is fantastic: the only point at issue in this respect is the length of time which the breakup will take, and the tribulations we have to undergo while the

break up is in progress.

A comparatively short period will probably serve to de-cide whether we are to master the mighty economic and social machine that we have created, or whether it is to master us... the difference between one more retreat into the Dark Ages, or the emergence into the full light of a day of such splendour as we can at present only envisage dimly.” (C.H.Douglas: So-cial Credit (1924) p.215-217).

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Douglas’ death, and furthermore, technological change has made some of his detailed suggestions obsolete. However, the bedrock of the social credit philosophy remains. They are the eternal truths of justice and freedom for all. Right now our fi nancial system does not allow these concepts.

It is up to a new generation to take up this challenge, and help surmount the last major barrier to a free and just society. There can be no freedom, without economic freedom— the economic freedom to choose one’s work and working condi-tions, made possible by a National or Citizen’s Dividend—and the economic freedom to produce and market one’s goods and services without unnecessary government intrusion. Many pho-ney make-work activities are also destroying the environment.

It has been said that men and nations will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted. All of the overly-centralized systems have collapsed or are on their death beds. With our amazing technology, there should be real progress, not increasing breakdown. Now is the time for something really new.

From Wikipedia - J. Martin Hattersley (born November

10, 1932) is a long-time activist in the Canadian social credit movement. Born in Swinton, Yorkshire, England, Hattersley moved to Alberta in 1956 where he worked as a lawyer. His parents met at a social credit conference in Britain.

From 1962 to 1964, he was director of research of the Social Credit Association of Canada, and personal secretary and speechwriter to Social Credit Party of Canada leader Robert N. Thompson, MP.

After the party’s remaining fi ve Members of Parliament were defeated in the 1980 general election, he became leader of the party from 1981 to 1983. He resigned after the party refused to expel members accused of anti-Semitism and prac-ticed law in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He was also interim president of the Social Credit Party of Alberta from 1985 to 1988, and has been president emeritus since then.


Wisdom from the Past“When we accuse the world’s great fi nanciers of

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The great fi nancier is in most cases a great idealist, and sooner or later constructs a Utopia which it is his constant endeavour to impose upon the world. Society is never in more deadly danger than when it is commit-ted to the mercies of the idealist, and particularly the Utopianist.

The fact is that there is no single Utopia which would give satisfaction to more than a small percentage of us, and that what we really demand of existence is not that we shall be put into somebody else’s Utopia, but that we shall be put into a position to construct a Utopia of our own. As the human personality develops, it becomes more individualized, and specialized in its outlook, and less and less amenable to centralized di-rection.”

- C.H. Douglas, Engineer and Social Credit founder.

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The woman speaks no comprehensible language and thus it is diffi cult to confi rm what has happened to her. She was discovered when a villager noticed that food had disappeared from a lunchbox he had left nearby his home, so he decided to watch the area, discovering the naked woman when she came again for some rice, according to the chief of police, Mao San in Oyado. “It is as if she’s part human and part animal”, said Mao San. A group of villagers were called together to catch the woman. The woman has had a hard time adjusting to nor-mal life. - Wikinews - source Sidney Morning Herald.


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The cost of the development is estimated at $63.5 million. The casino will have a dozen table games and 200 slot machines. It will be supported by a full-service truck stop and a 106 room Marriot Fairfi eld hotel. When completed, the centre will employ approximately 200 people. Las Vegas-based Paragon Gaming is partnering with the Alexis Sioux to build the complex.

The constuction alone will help alleviate poverty and unemployment at the Alexis reserve, with a successful ca-sino promising to inject much more money into the area. The casino’s slot machine revenues will be split several ways: 15 per cent to Paragon Gaming, 15 per cent to an Alexis First Nation charity, 30 per cent to the Alberta Lottery Fund, 30 per cent to Alexis First Nation general revenues and 10 per cent to Alberta First Nations that don’t have casinos.

The bigger question, as always in such cases, is why it takes gambling to alleviate poverty; especially since gam-bling does this by creating poverty elsewhere by hammering gambling addicted individuals. No real wealth is created by the betting activity. Real wealth would include services and goods that people need to be healthy and happy.

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At root, the idea that gambling is necessary to create needed revenues for governments or reserves is based on a false idea about money. Once again, think of how it was im-possible to fi nd enough money during the Great Depression to build needed housing and feed people, yet when WWII started, virtually umlimited funds became available to build things to blow up. The real, truthful situation is that anything that is physically possible is fi nancially possible.

What is more, an information age money system could eliminate infl ation by eliminating the compound interest that causes structural infl ation. For more on this deep topic, see the article on social credit starting on page 2. Other research materials include the page 2 article in the December 2006 is-sue of the Advisor. All Advisor back issues are available on the Internet at WhitecourtWeb.com (just click on the Advisor logo or cover at the left on the home page).

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member, in the time of which we speak, there was no radio or any other contact with the outside world. When dark-ness descended, the settler would repair to his cabin or camp, have his meal of possi-bly beans and bannock, light his candle or coal oil lamp, and sit around either reading or lost in reverie. He was in a deal like Selkirk where in his Soliloquy he proclaims:

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For the extrovert or the student of nature, the life held no worry but for the silent or brooding type, the danger of becoming what was then called “bushed” was always present. And it is not sur-prising that this happened in quite a number of cases, and when the actions of the af-

fected parties might indicate they were becoming unbal-anced, a report to the A.P.P. (Alberta Provincial Police) would bring an offi cer who would take the party out for treatment. Not that any were really violent as far as can be remembered, but defi nitely in need of care.

In discussing this matter with Pat Hardy one day, he disclosed that he had given the matter a deal of study, and had a unique theory of

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It is also interesting to note that at the time of which we refer to, the natu-ral resources came under the jurisdiction of the Fed-eral Government, and that all matters relating to same were administered there. An offi ce in Edmonton handled minor matters of course, timber and the protection thereof for the most part, although fi l-ing on homesteads etc. was also handled. Patrolling the woods around here we had three men known as “Fire Rangers” whose duty it was to patrol the Whitecourt area and report thereon. Soon af-ter the fi rst day of the month these men would purchase provisions to do them for the next thirty days or so, load said provisions on a horse, mount another horse, and set

out for another thirty days of fi ghting mosquitoes and other such denizens of the woods as resented the intru-sion.

The protection against mosquitoes, of which we had many, was a powder called “Buhac”. To get a few hours of peace within a dwelling

or tent, the general mode of procedure was to roll up a section of a newspaper, place a small mound of Bu-hac thereon, and set alight to the bundle. This defi nitely discouraged the pests, and

while it is doubtful if it actu-ally killed them, it hastened their departure from the area, and kept them away for some time. Everyone knew Buhac in those days, and fi re rang-ers and others resorted to it often. D.D.T. sprays when they happened along many years later did a much more lasting job.

It would be well when on the subject of outdoor life here, to convey some idea of what fi shing and hunt-ing were like. Both could be summed up in one word – “superb” –. Game birds and

game animals were plentiful, and one had only to take a trip into the House Mountain country to get moose or deer. For game birds, a short walk into the area up the hill now zoned as “industrial” provid-ed more than anyone would want.

In the spring one could wake up any hour of the morning, and hear partridges “drumming” nearby, some-thing that has not been heard for years in these parts, and which may, unfortunately, never again be heard. Fish-ing was a favorite pastime of the author, and many a most enjoyable hour was spent on that stretch of Beaver Creek, from about where the West-ern Construction burner now sits, down to where the creek entered the McLeod River. A stretch of less than a mile. No dams or buildings of any de-scription here, and the Bea-ver gurgled quietly along, in much the same fashion as mentioned by Tennyson in his famous book.

It was peaceful, it was lovely, and the fi sh were plentiful and obliging. Fetch-ing them out was no problem, and they were not at all edu-



Land agent getting a drink where the Mink Creek Trail crossed Second Deep Creek


cated as one ardent Scotch fi sherman remarked. At the mouth of the Beaver and in the McLeod River, Jack Fish were plentiful, and strange-ly enough, no one seemed to bother them. For a day’s fi shing combined with a pic-nic, most people hiked up to Steve’s Bridge, and fi shed upstream from there for a mile or less. It really was fascinating country, and on looking back one is remind-ed of the words of A. Conan Doyle, the creator of Sher-lock Holmes, who wrote, in part, following a visit to this part of the country about this time.

My life is ebbing downward, it sinks deeper

to the day,When t’will fi re its last dark cannon to the plains of Far

Away.But while its stream is

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Beaver Bridge - on the ‘main highway’. Photo taken before 1920.

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Some mention might be made here of the trouble the early settlers had in coping with the rabbit population which waxed and waned in

what appeared to be seven year cycles. At the time of which we write rabbits were just reaching their numerical peak, and what a peak it was, with rabbits, rabbits every-where. Farmers tried fenc-ing the stacks with chicken wire and other methods to discourage the four footed pests, and while it is doubtful if a rabbit can nibble through wire, somehow or the other they managed to surmount all obstacles. With stacks of green feed etc. the bottoms were demolished in no time and within a week or less the stack collapsed. Trees and shrubs had the bark eaten all the way around, and as the snow deepened the gnawing crept higher and higher.

Nature provided the only solution to the problem, for when the population soared to insupportable levels - the seven year cycle had run its course—a disease “coccidor-sis” began to take its toll. No one who ever witnessed the myriads of sick and dy-ing rabbits could be assured that they constituted articles of food, European custom to the contrary notwithstand-ing. In deference to Europe-ans however, let the author


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One good push deserves anotherA couple is in bed sleeping when there’s a rat-a-tat-tat on

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“Hi there,” slurs Steve, “Can you give me a push?”“No, get lost. It’s half past three and I was in bed,” says

the man as he slams the door. He goes back up to bed and tells his wife what happened.She says, “That wasn’t very nice of you. Remember that

night we broke down in the pouring rain on the way to pick the kids up from the baby-sitter and you had to knock on that man’s house to get us started again? What would have hap-pened if he’d told us to get lost?”

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Of course, dessert does not have to be the only spectacular item on the menu. Our extraordinary Chateaubriand is often the centre of attention, and for good reason. This hand-cut, perfectly aged tenderloin is extrememly succulent, and is perfect for an intimate dinner for two. Wheher you decide to serve it by candlelight is entirely up to you.

Sweetheart Meal Ideasmainly a response to the level of risk the dealers must face. (Economist Milton Friedman called it the Iron Law of Prohi-bition: the harder the police crack down on a substance, the more concentrated that substance becomes -- so cocaine gives way to crack cocaine, as beer gave way to moonshine under alcohol prohibition.)

This is probably yet another false dawn, for even the poli-ticians who know what needs to be done are too afraid of the gutter media to act on their convictions. But sometime in the next fi fty years, after only few more tens of millions of needless deaths, drug prohibition will end.

GWYNNE DYER has worked as a freelance journalist, columnist, broadcaster and lecturer on international affairs for more than 20 years. Born in Newfoundland, he received degrees from Canadian, American and British universities, fi nishing with a Ph.D. in Military and Middle Eastern History from the University of London. His articles are published in over 45 countries.


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(NC) - Give yourself a gift this Valentines Day by making sure your heart is healthy. The Heart and Stroke Foundation designates every February as Heart Month, so here’s a handy little checklist for taking the best care of yours:

o Blood pressure checked annual-ly, diagnosed, and treated if need be.

o Blood cholesterol is monitored at recommended intervals with an aim to keep it low.

o Not signifi cantly overweight. o Physical activity incorporated

into daily routine. o Alcohol consumption is lim-

ited to one or two standard drinks a day - with a weekly maximum of nine drinks for women and 14 for men.

o Don’t smoke and avoid sec-ond-hand smoke at all times.

o Monitor stress and know how to relax if need be.

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three boxes, you are well on your way to taking good care of your heart - and for continued good health, set your sights on completing the entire list.

Timely reminder for a healthy heart in February

A woman in Sacramento, Cali-fornia claims to have spotted the holy fi gure of Jesus Christ in her burrito.

Valencia Phillips said that, while she was very hungry and ac-tually not very religious, she didn’t dare bite into the chimichanga bearing the holy mark. “I’ve had an amazing, amazing experience. It’s been something else,” Phillips said.

It is not currently known what will become of the burrito.

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Taking on Climate Change: A Win-Win Situation

Canada is an emerging energy superpower. Albertans have under-stood this for awhile now, but the rest of Canada is just waking up to this fact. Being world leaders in en-ergy production should not be our single focus. We also have the op-portunity to become a clean-energy superpower. The world demand for energy is sky rocketing and as people become more environmentally con-scious they are looking for cleaner

energy. Canada should be their supplier. We can continue to develop our economy and we can protect Canada’s environ-ment for generations. It is a win-win situation.

This past week, our Conservative Government announced another portion of our plan to protect our children’s environ-mental inheritance. Starting this year we are investing an ad-ditional $230 million in clean-energy science and technology. This new funding will encourage the development of new, clean-energy technologies that will protect the health of our citizens and the environment.

The ecoENERGY Technology Initiative will fund re-search, development and demonstration to support the de-velopment of the next-generation clean-energy technologies needed to break through to emissions-free fossil fuel produc-tion and use. The new technology will give us the ability to exploit Alberta’s natural resources with less impact on the environment. These include clean-coal technology, carbon sequestration and technologies developed to use clean-energy sources like wind, solar, tidal, hydro-electric and bio-energy.

Bio-energy, such as ethanol from grains, bio-diesel from vegetable or animal oils, and methane from manure, is an area where the agriculture sector can contribute to Canada’s ac-tion against climate change. In December, the Minister of Agriculture, Chuck Strahl, announced $345 million to assist farmers and rural communities seize new market opportuni-ties in the agricultural bio-products sector. Our Government does not want Canada’s emerging bio-energy sector to be controlled by a few corporate giants. We want to make sure that the new opportunities are fi ltered down to rural commu-nities and farmers.

Scientists around the world have reached a consensus that human activities which lead to greenhouse gas emissions are having a negative impact on the global climate. The question is, what will we do in response? For the sake of our children and grandchildren we need to take realistic, responsible ac-tion. That is why our Conservative Government is making these investments. It is a win-win situation. Canadians will reap environmental benefi ts, our farmers and rural communi-ties will profi t, and by continuing to work towards a viable domestic biofuels industry we will secure Canada’s place in the growing bio-economy.

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Riders interested in joining a Sunday Ride should plan on being at the Eagle River Snowmobile Staging Area (NW of Whitecourt on Hwy #32) by 12:00 Noon on Sundays. The ride leaves the Staging Area by 12:30 PM. The Sunday Rides Program offers newcomers to the community and tourists the opportunity to ride with a Club Member who will lead a group for a 3 to 4 hour ride through the trail system. The ride usu-ally includes a stop for a trail lunch. Participants should dress for the weather and bring their own trail lunch. Sunday Rides for any given Sunday will be cancelled if the temperature is below -15C at 12:00 Noon.

Family Day Celebrations Monday, February 19 Time: 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. - TWO SHOWS!Location: Whitecourt Community Centre Cost: Food Bank Donation Contact Name/Number: Community Services Department at 778-6300 Event Description: Join us at the Whitecourt Community Centre and be entertained by Flyin’ Bob - the One Man, Three Ring Circus.

Family Day Events and Activities will be held at various locations throughout Whitecourt.

MOVIE: Vista Theatre - 1 to 3 PM: Admission is $1.00 plus a food bank donation. Call 778-2212 for listings.

MINI CARNIVAL: Girls & Boys Club - noon to 4 PM.: Admission is a food bank donation. Hot food concession available.

SWIMMING POOL: Family Swim from 2 to 5 PM. Admission is a food bank donation.

ROTARY PARK: Guided Horse Rides from 1 to 3 PM sponsored by the Poplar Ridge Academy.

Outdoor Skating - Sponsored by the Rotary ClubCabana Sucre (Maple Syrup) - Sponsored by Canadian

Parents for French BOWLING: At Millside Place from noon to 10 PM.

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the development of shopping malls and specifi cally the arriv-al of Walmart. Some downtowns have successfully met such challenges by adapting and innovating to become thriving, interesting business cores, highlighting the heritage of a mu-nicipality. Other downtowns failed and became blights. This translated into wasteful expenditures of taxpayers money on law enforcement and eventual remediation, as well as damage to both tourism and a town’s image.

On top of the mall challenge, the merchants must now deal with the fact that their customers can travel well plowed roads and park in plowed parking lots at the malls, or they can go downtown where two wheel drive vehicles are getting stuck right on Main Street quite a few days after a major snow fall. Additionally, shoppers have to often climb through a snow bank by the sidewalk to access a business.

The downtown core is also home to large institutions, such as banks and insurance agencies, that are considered a necessity for consumer and business alike. Quite naturally, downtown merchants state they do not wish to be given prior-ity over roads where public safety is involved. These routes are designated priority 1 by the town, while the downtown falls under priority 2. There are 4 priorities in all, with resi-dential areas being last to be cleared.

The town has responded that there is a 48 hour notice that must be given so that the downtown merchants can clear off their sidewalks, prior to the town snow clearing taking place. As well, the shift for the priority 1 routes is 5 a.m. to 9 p.m., while the shift for downtown snow clearing starts at 1 a.m., so that they crews need a day off when they switch shifts from the priority 1 routes to the night clearing of downtown. A la-bour shortage and the extensive snow fall this year created additional challenges.


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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fi re sparkling in lovers’ eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

~ William Shakespeare

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.~ Aristotle

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

~ Thomas Carlyle

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

~ Helen Keller

There is no remedy for love but to love more.~ Thoreau

Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.~ Unknown

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

~ Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

A friend is someone who knows all about you, and loves you just the same.

~ Proverb

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep wa-tering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

~ John Lennon

Don’t forget to love yourself.~ Soren Kierkegaard

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

~ Victor Hugo

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declare that there is little or no resemblance between the snowshoe rabbit (the kind we have here) and the burrow-ing rabbit of Europe. True, both are rabbits but that is about as far as the similarity extends. It is also interesting to note that a much longer period than seven years has elapsed since our rodents dis-appeared almost entirely, and all appearances would indi-cate that this time they have gone for good, or at least for a long time.

No doubt the predatory animals regret the passing of the devastating horde, while humans can only give a sigh of relief. Truly the popula-tion explosion started with rabbits. What a blessing Mother Nature intervenes when things start to get out of hand.

Next Month marks the fi nal installment of Jerry Graham’s work ‘Sagitawa to Whitecourt - A Salute to the Pioneers’. Various ideas are being considered for the his-tory section after that. If you have any material that you would like to have consid-ered for publication, please contact Dan at 778-5577


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Edmonton... Albertans will see an increase in provincial tax credits for 2007, part of the continuing process of index-ing the tax system to infl ation.

This latest increase brings the province’s basic per-sonal exemption, spousal exemption and eligible dependent amounts to $15,435 from $14,899, an increase of $536, or 3.6 per cent, over last year.

A typical family of four can earn up to $39,200 with the Alberta Family Employment Tax Credit before paying any provincial income tax. An estimated 27,200 fewer Albertans will pay provincial income tax in 2007 because of the in-crease.

Albertans already benefi t from the highest basic and spou-sal amounts in Canada. If Albertans and Alberta businesses lived or were located in any other province, they would pay an additional $7.2 billion in taxes.

Ed - Kudos to Alberta’s low tax regime, but what the above fails to mention is that Albertans are subject to a very regressive hidden tax in the form of health care premiums. Previously, the explanation for continuing this fl at charge against all but the poorest of Albertans is that it reminds them of the cost of health care, which presumably helps keep such costs in line. However, this logic seems highly questionable according to basic psychology. Ask yourself, are you more likely to use something if you are constantly reminded you are paying for it? This is beside the point that a family just getting by will pay the exact same tax here as a family with millions to spare. Cast your vote on this at WhitecourtWeb.com.

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