Opinion

Canada’s supply-managed agriculture sectors will quickly disappear now that our country has signed the TransPacifi c Partnership (TPP) deal.

When it comes to harvest, time is of the essence. That is particularly relevant right now when the daylight hours are getting shorter and the temperatures getting colder.

Stephen Harper sent Canada into the longest election campaign in modern times, and the protracted affair did not lead to another term for the Conservatives.

You likely didn’t need Brad Wall’s help figuring out how you should vote.

Dear Editor: On June 22nd I spoke at the City of Yorkton Regular Council Meeting regarding the need for a 3rd ice surface in this city.

Dear Editor: I am writing to express appreciation to the Yorkton Fire Department for their efforts in containing the recent fire on Tupper Avenue.

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

So, this is the moment I am supposed to be gracious. I will get there, I promise, but excuse me for a moment while I pause to bask in the glorious recognition that I will never again have to call Stephen Harper prime minister of Canada.

When my grandparents arrived from Japan in the early 1900s, Canada was far less tolerant than it is today. Women and minorities couldn’t vote, nor could Indigenous people who had lived here from time immemorial.