Opinion

Earth has existed for 4.5 billion years, humans for somewhere around 150,000. But in my brief lifetime — less than 80 years — human populations have exploded exponentially, from two billion to more than seven billion.

Happy Canada Day! Whatever your day entails, please pause for a moment in gratitude for this amazing country that is our home. We are truly blessed to live here.

To my knowledge, unlike our neighbor to the South, Canada has no official separation of church and state. But that didn’t stop the eyebrows raised in a few quarters when in 2014 our Prime Minister mentioned God in his Canada Day tweet. Twice.

Great Art Class! Among the requirements of “Visual Arts 104A” at the University of California, San Diego is that, for the final exam, students would make a presentation while nude, in a darkened room.

View from the Cheap Seats is kind of an extension of the newsroom. Whenever our three regular reporters, Calvin Daniels, Thom Barker and Randy Brenzen are in the building together, it is frequently a site of heated debate.

View from the Cheap Seats is kind of an extension of the newsroom. Whenever our three regular reporters, Calvin Daniels, Thom Barker and Randy Brenzen are in the building together, it is frequently a site of heated debate.

It shouldn’t come as a surprise to any taxpayer in Yorkton, or for that matter and urban community in Saskatchewan, there is an infrastructure shortfall happening.

Regardless of your political persuasion, by now you have to agree with Saskatchewan Party Premier Brad Wall about one thing: It’s time to abolish the Senate.

Health Minister Rona Ambrose was “outraged.” Outraged, no less.