Opinion

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.

Welcome to Week 2 of The Bug and Me (alternatively The Rewiring of Thom or Everything I Need to Know About Life I’m Learning from My Dog).

It always amazes me how advertising goes the extra mile by researching their target audiences now. Ads are served up to people fresh and fast; bright and colourful; short and sweet. Content is arranged attractively and written in brief.

Are you ready for some new plant additions to your garden? Then don’t miss the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society Spring Plant & Bulb Sale on Friday, May 27, 9:30 a.m. till 5 p.m. at the Parkland Mall.

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

You wouldn’t know it from the Saskatchewan Party’s throne speech. Much like his low-key March re-election campaign, Premier Brad Wall’s throne speech downplayed the unpleasantness and accentuated the positives.

All things considered...

A couple weeks ago, I got an email from a conference I will be attending at the end of May; an email that totally floored me.

At times it is natural for columnists on a particular topic to feed off one another.

There’s an old saying: “If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.” The same can be said about having your name in the newspaper, although that doesn’t really set up as well for the nice rhyming couplet.