Opinion

For the next several weeks, we will feature photos of “Yorkton Citizens at Work” — entrepreneurs and employees in the work place. The Dominion Lands Office was located on Argyle Street in the Smith Block. Left to right: #1 James E.

The power went out in the middle of the night and it woke me up. It was actually the lack of any noise that did it. The sound of being plunged into silence forced me awake.

I liked The Mandalorian, the Star Wars series that Disney used to push their Disney+ streaming service. But I don’t like the monster it created. That monster is the baby-fication of pop culture. The big-eyed, adorable children of popular characters.

The perception by others in this country that Saskatchewan is a racist province has become tiring. Yes, we have our problems.

I think we adults can sometimes grossly underestimate teenagers and what they can contribute to our functioning, everyday society.

There is a lot of history in a city that can trace its roots to a small cabin where a group of men over-wintered more than a century ago.

Justin Trudeau critics are out in full force over his purchasing of a bunch of $4 doughnuts for a meeting he was hosting from a Winnipeg bakery instead of being more frugal and going to Tim Horton’s.

Of late I have been working through a selection of games from designer Philippe Proux and publisher Ludarden. While I wouldn’t suggest any game from this designer is a ‘classic’, I will say they have almost all impressed.

“What are you here to do for us tonight?” one of the 2007 Britain’s Got Talent judges asked, eyeing contestant #31829. There he stood, thirty-six years old, with an awkward stance and too many chins. He’d dreamed of spending his life singing.

I have always been impressed with the Malanka celebration. Impressed because it seems the Ukrainian people have gone to great effort over the years preserving their culture.