Opinion

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.

One of those interesting, exotic vegetables that we often hear about is okra.

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

Dear Editor: As a former Chairman of the Yorkton Airport Authority I feel it necessary to correct you on some of your comments made in your editorial "Chamber offers study City should have done".

Summertime and the reading is easy.

The City of Yorkton was devastated on July 1, 2010 when, what was later termed a 'one-in-100-year' rain event dumped inches of water on the city in less than an hour.

Bees may be small, but they play a big role in human health and survival. Some experts say one of every three bites of food we eat depends on them. The insects pollinate everything from apples and zucchini to blueberries and almonds.

So why don't we have a rainy day fund for real rainy days? The most obvious answers is that we don't particularly want to pay more taxes and have been conditioned to believe any government surplus is just our tax dollars wasted.

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

Happy Canada Day! Hope you celebrated Canada on July 1: how lucky we are to live here! In honor of Canada Day, I did a little research about the gardens at Rideau Hall in Ottawa; let's have a cup of tea and travel there together right now and I'll te