Opinion

In fall 2011, politicians, farmers, environmentalists and local advocates met in Toronto to get the ball rolling for Canada’s first urban national park, in the Rouge watershed on the city’s east side. It was a remarkably diverse gathering.

I hope you will be joining us at the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society’s annual “Fruit, Flower and Vegetable Show”, next Tuesday, August 11 from 1:00 p.m. till 5:00 p.m. at St.

Last week when news broke that the City was going to build a new roundabout intersection at Darlington and Dracup it created a definite buzz in the city.

To be clear, Premier Brad Wall thinks as a politician first — one true to his belief and true to the foremost cause of getting elected. That sometimes means saying and doing things that not only please the masses but please the base.

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

“Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.” - Dr. Jack Finch to Jean Louise Finch in Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee.

I love statistics so I always look forward to the end of July when StatsCan releases the previous year’s crime data. I actually cut my teeth in this business on crime statistics.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders dropped their fifth in a row, fourth in a row at home, over the weekend as the superior Hamilton Ti-Cats came in and left with a victory. In this contest, I just felt a better team emerged victorious.

On July 15, a state-of-the-art new pipeline near Fort McMurray, Alberta, ruptured, spilling five million litres of bitumen, sand and waste water over 16,000 square metres — one of the largest pipeline oil spills in Canadian history.