Opinion

Just a reminder, gardeners: the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society will be holding their next regular meeting on Wednesday, May 20 at 7:00 p.m. ay SIGN on North Street.

“I heard a huge crash,” my nephew Jeremy told me. “The house shook. Then I heard the sound of glass breaking. That seemed to go on forever. Then I watched the attic hatch flap jump up and come back down again.

For years now members of administration with the City of Yorkton have been throwing up red flags regarding a growing deficit in terms of City infrastructure.

Maybe things are not always supposed to be the way things are supposed to be. Such thoughts cross one’s mind as one ponders the still-inconceivable phrase: Alberta NDP government.

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

The recent election in Alberta underscores the deep-seated problems in Canada’s electoral system. One of the frequent buzz terms in this and other recent elections such as the 2011 federal election is voting efficiency.

Last week at the Senator Mike Duffy trial, the first evidence emerged of just how deep the corruption goes in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).

One of this year’s most popular Sundance Film Festival entries, Tangerine, was shot with an iPhone 5S and edited with an $8 app called Filmic Pro. New technology has also made music easier to produce and distribute, inspiring independent musicians.

If you didn’t have the planting bug before, you must have it now, as all the beautiful plants are beckoning to us from the greenhouses! Don’t they all look enticing? It’s hard to resist! Before we sit down with a cup of tea to “talk plants”, I’d like