Opinion

Dear Editor: On Feb. 6, 2015 the Supreme Court of Canada ruling on doctor assisted suicide was a disappointment.

Very exciting news came out of Britain last week when the House of Commons approved research on a technique that could save hundreds of babies from suffering horrific inherited diseases.

I support a person’s right to die a dignified physician-assisted death. Wow, did that ever feel good to hear someone definitively answer that question even though it was me.

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 Supreme Court decision last week appears to pave the way for doctor assisted suicide to become legal in Canada. This landmark ruling will, certainly, change the way people live out their final days.

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

In late January, the BC Lung Association released results of Canada’s largest-ever community-wide home radon testing project, conducted in Castlegar and Prince George, two of B.C.’s radon hot spots.

Gardeners, let’s begin with some housekeeping notes. The first meeting of the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society will be on Wednesday, February 18 at 7:00 p.m. in the Sunshine Room at SIGN on North Street.

Small faces bloom under my friend Rhonda’s paintbrush. Her canvasses come to her as children, but a few minutes later they leave as butterflies, tigers, flowers or pets. Even superheroes. Rhonda’s art impresses me, but her character moves me.