Opinion

When government biologists in Canada want to learn where caribou are, they put radio-tracking collars on some animals and monitor their movements.

Last night, as I was falling asleep, I wrote my column in my head. It was witty, brilliant, succinct, insightful. This isn’t that column, of course.

“Give the gift of forgiveness this Christmas,” I read. “Set yourself free.” I had this friend, you see. Sometimes when we were together, I marveled she even called me friend. In so many ways, she seemed beyond me. She came into my life late.

Some dear friends gave us a beautiful Christmas arrangement containing a little cedar and a Christmas cactus.

It has been a month since the American election and, so far, I have not weighed in. It is not for lack of trying.

There are a lot of problems with Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax plan, not the least of which is the fact that a tax doesn’t even address the issue of a country becoming more green.

View from the Cheap Seats is an extension of the newsroom, which is frequently a site of heated debate on topics ranging from the extremely serious to the utterly ridiculous.

Rural Saskatchewan might be unnerved to know that the bureaucrat who once had a key role in the closure of 52 rural hospitals is now providing recommendations on the future of rural schools. But there is less reason to worry here than one may think.

Ole and Lena were doing their Christmas shopping at Steen og Strøm in Oslo, Norway, which is a large department store like Walmart. They wandered around the store together, but after a while decided to split up and meet later.

Oh, it may not have seemed like much snow compared to someone who grew up in the mountains, but the walloping Estevan got in the week covering November 28 to December 6 was a memorable one for us prairie chickens.