Opinion

April 22nd is Earth Day. So what, we may ask? What does having an Earth Day marked around the world even mean? For some Earth Day is just another day like any other whereby we go about our daily business.

CBC is being cut again. This time it is 657 positions over two years to deal with a $130 million budget shortfall. I'm sure there are many people-mostly Conservatives and conservatives-who are gleefully wringing their hands over this latest news.

Oversight of government should be the purview of independent institutions as we have seen most recently with the disgraceful (un)Fair Elections Act. It is why we have Elections Canada, a parliamentary budget officer, an auditor general etc.

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.

I think we can start believing that spring has arrived! How welcome it is to be able to see patches of grass appearing in our yards! I took a solitary stroll through the garden the other day, not the same walk anymore without Toby checking the signs

The Yorkton Terriers are poised to win their second straight SJHL championship later this week as, at press time, they lead the Melville Millionaires 2-games-to-0.

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

April is Earth Month, and April 22 Earth Day. We should really celebrate our small blue planet and all it provides every day, but recent events give us particular cause to reflect on our home and how we're treating it.

For the second time in three days, I slipped into a theatre seat to watch "The Promise," a recent local musical based on the life of Christ. I knew some of the actors in the cast, including the man playing Jesus.