Opinion

As the final weeks of June arrive in the calendar, Grade 12 students across the country find themselves in that strange realm between the panic to study for final exams, and the exhilaration of knowing graduation exercises are close and soon they wil

We are a deeply divided province, but we don’t speak much about where that line of division really occur. It isn’t the rural-urban split that we most often discuss in this space.

Dear Editor: As Father’s Day approaches, I often wonder whether my Father would have been around for this Father’s Day, if the following hadn’t happened.

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

The world did not end. I did go through some physical withdrawal, anxiety mostly, but after a few days that was gone. I still have some lingering emotional symptoms.

Reading the news, it’s hard not to feel a growing sense of unease.

Do you remember the show “Canadian Gardener” that ran on CBC many years ago? What a great gardening show, hosted by the knowledgeable David Tarrant.

If God had given me the choice of fathers, I may not have picked Dad. I may have picked a dad like my friend Jane’s. I never met the man. He was never home. But he bought her a horse.

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.