Opinion

Dear Editor: Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) are caring professionals who take pride in providing quality nursing care to patients. LPNs are one of 3 groups of Nurses that include LPNs, Registered Nurses and Registered Psychiatric Nurses.

At the most recent regular meeting of Yorkton Council a major piece of legislation took another step toward being adopted in the city.

I've just attended a performance of the famous Watoto Children's Choir. Seeing African people sing and dance makes my body hurt. They bend in places I don't even have joints. The word Watoto is Swahili for 'children'.

The David Suzuki Foundation and others have run ads over the past decade decrying British Columbia's open net-cage salmon farm industry. With significant expansion planned for the West Coast, the question remains: Has B.C.

I think the jury on public-private partnerships (P3) is still out. I accept that they are a reality that we are going to have to deal with on an ever-increasing basis, especially with the infrastructure deficit in the country.

The Yorkton Branch of the Saskatchewan Genealogical Society meets at the Yorkton Public Library on the second Tuesday of each month.

A letter to the editor this week was one of those moments as a journalist that gives pause. The writer Dave Carr, from Ituna, was obviously in a grave state of grief and frustration. "My wife [Catherine] died of cancer," he wrote.

Change does not come easy for politicians nor does it come easy for the people that elected them. To retire from politics is never an easy decision.

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.