Opinion

Amid the myriad of bad news stories that have arisen in 2020 on the Canadian Prairies due to the impact of COVID-19, there are good news stories too.

The Saskatchewan Rattlers fell rather short in terms of defending their Canadian Elite Basketball League title. The Rattlers were the lone team among the seven not making the playoffs following the Summer Series round robin. “I think we played well.

Hello once again to all of you beautiful and wonderful readers. As you can see, we’re back at it here at The Outlook after a two-week summer break.

My husband and I lost a good friend on May 17. Her name was Laurie and she was one of the most special people I’ve had the good fortune to know.

I recently watched a monologue for a guest host of a late night talk show. I haven’t actually watched any since the beginning of the pandemic, so I had not quite experienced how they had changed over the past year. Superficially, they hadn’t changed.

Taxpayers Need to be Concerned As taxpayers of Outlook, we all need to be concerned with the conduct and actions of our councillors. This became even more apparent when reading the minutes from the July 22 meeting after the in-camera session.

It’s always good when you discover a new game and become excited by it before ever playing it. Typically, that is the case with new abstract strategy games, deck builders, and especially skirmish level miniatures games.

Beyond everything else in the world right now, in Saskatchewan we’re gearing up for two elections, which will be held back-to-back, for the Government of Saskatchewan as well as various City and Town councils.

When you are part of a small gaming group, who still have access to a couple of game rooms filled with dozens of board games, rare is the new game which offers a lot that is fresh and new.

Glenda and I have been best friends almost 30 years. I don’t need to explain the close friendships of women to the ladies reading this.