Opinion

Dear Editor: It is no mystery that climate change alarmists are ignoring the news that the Great Lakes are freezing over for a second year in a row the first time in 100 years.

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

Self-driving cars have been just around the corner since, well, the 1950s apparently. There is this great advertorial from the Electric Light & Power Co.

It was an interesting morning at Yorkton court Monday. I will start with the two news stories we ran this week. First up, Cheywin Ironstand.

I can save you some time this week if you are a frequent reader who prefers when I don’t write about sports. You may want to stop reading.

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.

Many people think of Canada as a landscape of forests, mountains, water and ice, but the Canadian experience is fast becoming focused on glass and concrete. Our 2011 census revealed that 81 per cent of us now live in cities.

In the past week I heard two wonderful presentations that got me all fired up for spring: first of all, Glen Tymiak gave a very interesting, information-filled talk on Gardening 101 to a full house at the Prairie Sun Seed Festival; then just a few da

I’ve told my friend Ruth’s* story in this column before, but some stories need hearing and telling again. It was a horrid situation. Ruth had brought it on herself, but admitting that didn’t lessen the consequences.

If you’ve watched any TV lately, you may have seen some Government of Canada ads.