Opinion

I was in what I thought was a serious discussion with a person somewhat (well, actually a lot) younger than me.

A recent Marketplace documentary on TV drew attention to the amount of food waste there is in our country, a total of 31 billon dollars. In the United States it is 70 billion.

Most Canadians are aware of our country’s involvement in the Second World War and are familiar with names such as Dieppe, Normandy and Juno Beach.

Sometimes writing an editorial seems to be a repetitive exercise since issues and events tend to repeat themselves year-after-year. But in some cases providing a gentle reminder is simply too important not to return to a common theme.

Dear Editor: Re: “Wagantall bill dead with 209-76 HOC vote” (Yorkton This Week, November 3, 2016). Politics may be the tool with which we determine how to deal with the truth, but the existence of that truth is not determined by politics.

By Kaare Askildt

Fatale: Vol #2 The Devil’s Business Writer by Ed Brubaker Art by Sean Phillips Image Comics The Devil’s Business collects issues #6 - #10 of the regular run of Fatale.

Every so often I’m invited to write for the Story, an online meditational journey through the Bible, for people who want to better understand Christianity and the God of the Bible.

Scientists worldwide accept that Earth is warming at an unusually rapid rate, that humans are primarily responsible, mainly by burning fossil fuels, and that the consequences for humanity will be disastrous if we don’t take immediate, widespread acti