Opinion

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

When Rosa Parks refused to sit at the back of the bus and give up her seat for a white man, it was an unlawful act. When Mahatma Gandhi led marches in opposition to the British salt monopoly, they were unlawful acts.

The fire chief of the Village of Loon Lake took a great deal of criticism last week after it was learned his department did not respond to a fire that claimed the lives of two young children at a nearby First Nations Reserve.

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.

When she was just 12 years old, my daughter Severn gave a speech at the 1992 UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. She spoke with such conviction that delegates were moved to tears. It was one of my proudest moments as a father.

I once saw a poster that showed a beautiful little plant, with a delicate pink flower, growing through a crack in the asphalt; the caption said “beautiful things are seldom easy”.

What do you do when your landlord increases your rent from $750 to $1600? Especially when you often already have more month left at the end of the money than money at the end of the month. Imagine you’ve lived in that rented home for eight years.

One has to wonder what the fate of volunteerism is in a community such as Yorkton. Recently we have seen media coverage of a couple of volunteers who have devoted sizeable chunks of their free time to organizations they believe in.

The warning signs are coming in and they’re not pretty. We are in for a tough provincial budget — one in which there is legitimate reason for us to lower expectations of what we might have hoped to receive from Premier Brad Wall’s government.