Opinion

Name changes: North West Mounted Police 1873, Royal North West Mounted Police in 1904 and Royal Canadian Mounted Police 1920. To begin with, the Force — the North West Mounted Police was founded by Prime Minister J.

PAUSE FOR REFLECTION By Ken Rolheiser

Losing Brad Wall will be a tough pill for the Saskatchewan Party to swallow. And it will be an equally tough pill for rural Saskatchewan as well … although maybe not quite as tough as some may suspect.

A little bit of the ol' ultraviolence.

Way back when I graduated from high school, nearly 15 years ago, my grandmother gave me a camera. Specifically, she gave me her camera, a Beacon, made by Whitehouse at some point in the 1940s.

I n mid-April community based organizations (CBOs) were hearing the rumblings the Saskatchewan government was about to cut their funding by 10 per cent.

I passed a small cluster of blonde fluff beside the highway one warm spring day. The sad little pile lay immediately at the end of a friend’s lane.

August 2 was Earth Overshoot Day. Unlike Earth Day or Canada Day, it’s not a time to celebrate. As the Earth Overshoot Day website explains, it marks the time when “we will have used more from nature than our planet can renew in the whole year.

Brad Wall announced his retirement from politics last week and my knee jerk reaction to it was one that was less than favourable.