Opinion

Over the weekend, I found myself caught in a downpour of rain. I sprinted to the nearest store to take shelter from the prairie waterfall, which just-so happened to have tea.

Gardeners, we are in for a treat this week! The bus tour to see the winning Yorkton In Bloom winners is on Friday, July 22, with two tour times: 9:00 AM and 3:00 PM. The bus leaves from the north parking lot at the Yorkton Public Library.

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.

Last week we were treated to an unrivaled national anthem fiasco when tenor Remigio Pereira changed one of the lyrics of O Canada to make a personal, and poorly considered, political statement.

Welcome to Week CCXV of ‘Fishing Parkland Shorelines’. Like most of us I am a novice fisherman, loving to fish, but far from an expert.

To the credit of this Saskatchewan Party government, it has generally stayed out of the way of small business.

Apparently the village of Invermay has some free-range chickens on the run and they are causing quite the stir.

The fallout of the decline in oil prices, its revenue to province, and the jobs it provides, can be seen crystalizing in the case of one Saskatchewan family.

When the Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation held its annual conference in February, one issue which was plainly put forward was that feral wild boar are a growing problem in the province, and across Canada.

One couple was living in a house on their farm. One day the wife had seen a mouse running into a hole. She was terrified of it so she told her husband. He said, “We’ll fix her.” So he set a mousetrap near the hole.