Opinion

Saskatoon Mayor Don Atchison is taking a bit of heat for not attending that city’s Pride Parade over the weekend. I’m not sure if I can word this in a way that comes across as non-offensive or not, but I don’t understand why he needs to be there.

Every time a government borrows money there is an inevitable comparison to home mortgages. But an inch below the spin is the glaring reality that government debt is nothing like a mortgage.

Canada Day is a celebration of all that is great about our country – it honours our past, our present and our future.

Canada Day is a celebration of all that is great about our country – it honours our past, our present and our future.

Last Sunday my husband and I attended an afternoon graveside service at the cemetery where my maternal grandparents are buried. On the way home we detoured to visit my grandparents’ homestead where I had spent many a Sunday afternoon as a child.

Last Sunday my husband and I attended an afternoon graveside service at the cemetery where my maternal grandparents are buried. On the way home we detoured to visit my grandparents’ homestead where I had spent many a Sunday afternoon as a child.

Last Sunday my husband and I attended an afternoon graveside service at the cemetery where my maternal grandparents are buried. On the way home we detoured to visit my grandparents’ homestead where I had spent many a Sunday afternoon as a child.

Flipping through the pages of a photo album brought back a memory of a trip taken in the spring of 1962.

For some undefi ned reason of late I have been thinking about my grandfather and what his take on a modern farm would be.

For some undefi ned reason of late I have been thinking about my grandfather and what his take on a modern farm would be.