Opinion

Gary Krause was mystified by an unusual fish he caught in his trawl net off B.C.’s Pacific north coast in October. It was a Pacific electric ray, named for a pair of organs behind its head that can knock a human adult down with a powerful shock.

Is it only coincidence that the professional entertainers who express appreciation for the marvellous venue which is the Kamsack Playhouse are the acts who are cheered the loudest? “If you build it, they will sing?” On their current Stars for Saskatc

By Gail Krawetz The Province of Saskatchewan has proclaimed 2016 to be the Year of Saskatchewan Ukrainians. This designation acknowledges the 125th anniversary of the arrival of the first Ukrainian immigrants in Canada.

By Maureen Humeniuk, Real estate and travel agent at Hawryluk Agency Inc.

The idea of a flow of information from any level of government to the people who that government represents is generally a good one. It is very easy for government to make decisions with a seeming complete disconnect from voters.

This is not to suggest that politicians don’t work hard. Nor is necessarily to suggest that getting elected hasn’t somehow become part of their job ….

Our modern society is the weirdest. Even with having the knowledge of the past, the technology to look deeper into the past, and the lessons that past generations taught us, this day and age seems to just ignore all of it.

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

Manifesto? Really? I thought that word went out of politics with Karl Marx, or maybe Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez or other latter-day dictatorial types. Did not see it dominating today’s NDP federal party, as it now appears to be doing.