Opinion

If you are something on a ‘sports honeybee’ happily flitting from one sport to another, while keeping your eye out for the next one to watch – that’s me in a honeycomb in keeping with the metaphor – you know there are always new sports popping up.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may not be very popular on the Prairies but he and his party do seem to at least understand the importance of timely and speedy access to information these days.

When it’s Christmas, and your partner loves Christmas movies, you will happen to watch many Christmas movies.

The COVID-19 news has not been good and is likely soon to get worse. While it once took nearly two months to run up 500 cases in Saskatchewan, we are now hitting those numbers in a couple days.

When stores are empty there are generally calls for some sort of incentive to get businesses back into them. Incentives are not new locally, as was noted at the regular meeting of Yorkton Council Monday.

When it comes to gaming I am an admitted sucker for miniature skirmish games. And now there is a new game glittering on the horizon that has my eye: Legions of Steel: Operation Anvil. LoS has a long history to be sure.

Cloudy days of the soul often block our view of God, threatening faith in his goodness. But they persist in our souls’ regions, these pandemic times. “Cloudy with increased chance of precipitation, in the form of salty tears,” a forecaster may say.

Winter has now arrived, and it’s a good feeling to let our gardens rest (and we gardeners as well!) from a busy season.

At a moment in history when very little in life is as we usually know it, even the traditions that come with commemorating special events have had to be re-thought.

It is the time of year when this journalist tends to become reflective on a career that has now stretched beyond three decades scratching stories for Yorkton This Week.