Opinion

There are few things more disconcerting than seeing what appears to be a groundswell of democracy crushed by a resurgence of brutal authoritarianism. They called it the Arab Spring.

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.

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

Ingrid Rice's editorial cartoon in last week's newspaper pretty much says it all. In the first panel a man holds a newspaper with the front page headline, "Conservatives want better data to fix Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

It was an interesting situation at the regular meeting of Yorkton Council, one where a local organization appeared before Council to file a report with the City which probably should have been carried out by the City in the first place.

I stopped at the piper today. Though I've noticed the bronze statue outside Chilliwack's stately City Hall on previous visits to the city, I've never made time to pause. This morning's sunny walk seemed the perfect opportunity.

In this new Saskatchewan, we have both urban growth and a very different economy infringing on the old system of rural municipalities. And there does seem to be increasing conflict as a result.

The Canadian Football League regular season kicks off this week and there are usually a few signs early on that allow us to determine which teams will be incompetent over the summer. For years, we laughed at Winnipeg.

There was little doubt the federal government would approve the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project, regardless of public opposition or evidence presented against it.