Opinion

It just looked and smelled so good. Pink, billowy, fluffy cotton candy. As it was being freshly spun in the huge tub I couldn’t stop my mouth from watering. I tried to talk myself out of buying it because I find it difficult to eat.

Drawing an editorial cartoon or illustration for Canada Day is usually fun, and most of the time, without controversy.

Welcome to 'Wordy Wednesday' brought to you by our friends at Yorkton Public Library, (including Slow the friendly sloth), and appearing here courtesy of Yorkton This Week.

We are on the eve of Canada Day with this edition, and in the past it has been a time of celebration for our country, yet this year any celebration has to be tempered by what we have collectively faced the past year with COVID-19, and more recently t

Fisherfolk always have their favoured spots to fish, generally carefully guarded secrets of the trade. In my case I like a spot with a quartet of things going for it.

If you are a fan of abstract strategy games you will know that far too often when a new game is created it invariably gets a comparison to chess tossed into the promotional material, and most simply don’t come up to that level.

We really do need each other. God made us that way. Genesis records that when he created the world and nature, he called it good. Yet, after creating Adam, he said, “It is not good for man to be alone,” and immediately created Eve.

A dear friend was telling us that her son has potato bugs after a clear crop for several years.

So our normally happy-go-lucky community here in the west central part of the province proved to be ridiculously popular on social media recently.

I have spent July 1 in some interesting places over the years; a community park in Mission BC, on the interstate in Nevada, a lake in Alberta, an aquarium in southern California, but primarily in the towns or cities where I was living at the time.