Opinion

Every week, it seems I’m reading something that makes me wonder how much better I would have turned out as an adult if I had people hovering over me twenty-five years (or more) ago the way people are baby sat today.

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.

How long can you go without water? You could probably survive a few weeks without water for cooking. If you stopped washing, the threat to your life might only come from people who can’t stand the smell.

When it’s time to start thinking about planting up our planters, conversation inevitably turns to the soil in the planters: can we use last year’s soil? Should we get new soil? Or can we mix the soils together? Every gardener has a formula that works

The Yorkton branch of the Saskatchewan Genealogical Society will be holding their next regular meeting on Tuesday, April 14 at 7:00 p.m. at the Yorkton Public Library.

“Fame is not acceptance, it doesn’t validate you as a person. It means nothing.” Quite a statement coming from the muffin lady behind the counter at a local café. The one taking customers’ money to pay for your muffin and her wage.

Revenue sharing from Saskatchewan coffers to municipalities has at least been tied to an easily defined measure in recent years. The province now distributes a portion of the revenue generated by the provincial sales tax.

There are many who would argue that the worse thing about Saskatchewan people — particularly rural people — is their long memories.

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