Opinion

As the weather breaks, it’ll be interesting to see how the City of Yorkton goes about solving the issue of road maintenance. Driving is akin to navigating your way through a minefield.

CIt was only a couple days ago the Yorkton Chamber of Commerce was given a brief presentation on the ‘Transportation and Growth Opportunities for the Yorkton Region’ by John Law.

More than two decades after the bitter hospital closure fights in rural Saskatchewan, the battle is still happening. And what’s even stranger is that some rural folks seem to now be battling a very rural-based Saskatchewan Party government.

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

The Internet is without question the greatest information resource ever invented. Unfortunately, it is also one of the worst. That is because there is no gatekeeper to fact-check the veracity of information.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper was up to his old tricks again last week of creating solutions in search of problems and sowing fear.

Scary thought if repairing these small bridges on Highway-10 between Yorkton and Melville were so urgent that it couldn’t wait until after the melt. Driving through on Saturday, the side road was a complete mud bog and it’s only going to get worse.

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.

A scientist, or any knowledgeable person, will tell you climate change is a serious threat for Canada and the world. But the RCMP has a different take.