Opinion

1969. My friends and I, along with our pastor, traipsed into a nursing home, intent on “cheering them up,” or so Pastor said. I had just joined my high school band.

Only a couple of months into the new Yorkton city council term, three new members of council (two others were absent, and two incumbents voted No) decided that council only needs to meet every three weeks, instead of the every-other-week schedule tha

It is awards season and with it, of course, comes the interminable and intolerable acceptance speeches. My intention here is not to slag on Adele.

What better time of year is there to talk about aphrodisiacs than around Valentine’s Day? Aphrodisiacs can be foods that psychologically and/or scientifically help us feel... well “in the mood” for lack of better words.

Saturday afternoon I ran across a tweet from CBC News that caused me a lot of alarm, initially, but then realized filtering the news was something I have also participated in from my own days working full time in the media.

Gardeners, I have a couple events to tell you about: Yorkton Seedy Saturday (formerly the Prairie Sun Seed Festival) is happening on Saturday, March 11 beginning at 12:30 p.m. at Dr. Brass School in Yorkton.

In conversations with faith, political, and cultural leaders in Saskatchewan, I heard a consistent and shared response to the attack on the Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec (Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec) in the Quebec City suburb of Ste. Foy.

In trying to justify their decision to drop the electoral reform promise the Liberal Party made in the last election, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked if someone really wanted Kelly Leitch to have her own party.

“Our justice system is broken!” whined the giant man-baby currently occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C.

What seems clear is that none of us will escape the wrath of the 2017-18 budget. But based on the noises Premier Brad Wall is now making, some of us will be hit harder than others.