Opinion

There is a bottom line to the railway blockades and the other illegal protests across the country in support of the Wet’suwet’en fight against the Coastal GasLink project. Illegal protests have to stop.

In many ways the best things in a community such as Yorkton exists by the efforts of dedicated volunteers.

Wouldn’t you know it, the store was closed when I got down there to Dinsmore that day back on Saturday, August 24, 2013. I hadn’t planned on that.

Canada is respected globally for the freedoms we who live here enjoy. It’s not perfect, but it’s a geographically and culturally diverse land with spectacular environments and friendly people.

I saw a story last week about first time home buyers in Toronto and how a price of $45,000 over 35 years ago has ballooned to $690,000 today. It’s over-simplifying, but that’s the problem with the Canadian economy in a nutshell.

Fakir is a game that will remind many of the 1967 release Kerplunk, the stick and marble game most my age will recall from their childhood.

I’m pounding the keyboard of my old Dell into the table right now. I spoke to a young friend earlier today. Yesterday was unseasonably warm for mid-winter.

The obvious disconnect between consumers and farmers, is much discussed in agriculture media, and that includes mentioned here on numerous occasions. This past week I had something of an epiphany in regards to the aforementioned disconnect.

The longer and brighter days are now encouraging us to “think spring”! We can get our feet wet for gardening with ‘Seedy Saturday’on Saturday, February 22, from 11 a.m. till 4 p.m. at Dreambuilders School at SIGN on Broadway.

Over the weeks of this column I have on occasion lamented that the two major cable sports networks in this country do a rather shoddy job of covering anything involving Canadian pro teams unless they are involved in one of the big four sports.