Opinion

As I type this, I’m in a great deal of pain. People who know me can guess where - it’s back pain, as usual - because I tend to complain about it a lot.

Too many of us fail to live directly in the moment, it seems.

Well what do ya know, it’s mid-December and we’re already staring down the barrel of another new year in less than a couple of weeks.

Research studies always seem to be interesting in what they unearth, and also leave you wondering exactly how the data was collected. Survey data is generally accumulated off the responses of people to a series of questions.

Dear Editor: I am a relatively new citizen to Yorkton but when I heard the Mayor’s comments on the radio regarding complaints about the snow plows covering the sidewalks with snow from the roads, I felt I had to respond to his very weak explanation.

Dear Editor: The United Nations and many American and Canadian governments at all levels are increasing or proposing what they call ‘carbon taxes.’ But they are not really taxing carbon, which is, of course, a solid.

When you break down who has gotten what from federal equalization since it came into existence in 1957, you come up with some interesting things.

It is tempting at this time of year to pull up the story file from 2017, open the editorial written for the Christmas edition and simply rerun it in this space a year later.

On November 28, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley announced her province is going to be acquiring unit trains to get her province’s landlocked oil moving. Not only has she committed money to Trans Mountain Expansion, but now rail too.