Opinion

The range of emotions I feel after reading the story of a Winnipeg woman whose body was pulled from the Red River a few days after authorities found her two young children dead from an apparent bath tub drowning are wide ranging, but none of my feeli

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

The thing that seems a good idea at the time is often the thing we should have thought more about before we went ahead and did it. Abolishing the Senate sure seems like a great idea to Premier Brad Wall right now.

Scientific humour can often be obtuse to lay people, but sometimes it can also be trouble for scientists.

"Goin' for a ride on my scooter," the Preacher said. "Here's the cell in case your sister texts back," I muttered an absent-minded response and resumed writing.

Bring your gardening gloves together and give a big round of applause for all the winners of the Yorkton In Bloom 2013 competition! Congratulations to all of you and to everyone who entered the competition.

Last Wednesday what may be a first for Yorkton, and certainly a first in many years, an organized cricket game was held with the public invited to take it in as fans. The crowd, in what is sadly true Yorkton fashion, was sparse.

StatsCan's release of 2012 Canadian crime statistics last week put me in mind of some of my favourite quotes about statistics. "I can prove anything by statistics except the truth," said former British prime minister George Canning.

More than 13 per cent of Canada's gross domestic product depends on healthy ecosystems, according to Environment Canada briefing notes obtained by Postmedia News.