Opinion

“Since the takeover by ‘smart’ technology,” I heard an authority on human behavior say recently in an interview, “the quality of kindness is now perceived as being indicative of a weak personality.

Did you take a garden tour in your yard last week, gardeners? Wasn’t everything beautiful, covered with hoarfrost! Now if we are to believe the old wives’ tale about hoarfrost, we’ll be getting rain in six months’ time, somewhere around the beginning

So each year we at the tiny Meeple Guild like to look back on the games we have reviewed over the past year, and so here goes a look at 2019.

On Christmas eve as the first star appears, the table is set and the mother places a [kolach] the braided bread with a lit candle on the table. The father brings in the [didukh] a sheaf of wheat and places it near the table on a stool in the corner.

RE: Recycling Dear Editor, I read with interest the Letter to the Editor entitled “Recycling” written by Marlene Torvik of Saskatoon.

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, And next year’s words await another voice.” - T.S. Eliot We’ve arrived not only at the beginning of another year, but the beginning of another decade.

We're one week into a new year. One week of international tensions, national events and local news, not to mention what has taken place in each of our lives in just a handful of days.

Last weekend was the Golden Globes, the Oscar nominations are going to be announced in a few weeks - Oscar voters are currently voting, in fact - and as a result it’s a great time to think about what movies from the past year were the best.

As Premier Scott Moe moves towards the predicted October 26 election, maybe the best thing he could is surprise us a bit more in 2020.

Typically we think of City Council as that group of individuals we elect every four years, who then spend their time figuring how much to raise property taxes, water and sewage rates, and what it will cost us to use various city-owned recreational fa