Opinion

The last week in Saskatchewan politics was about as chaotic as it can get. A state of emergency declaration, dozens of cases of COVID-19 and rising, and oh yeah, the budget that never was.

It is time for big decisions from governments of all sizes and stripes in Canada. One week of workplace hemorrhaging from COVID-19 has punched a sinkhole into the economy, with a half-million Canadians into employment insurance.

Dungeon crawling adventures in board game form are not new. Nor are deck-builders with a few dozen in various forms amid the board games out these days.

Whatever the circumstances, sings Canadian musician Big Dave McLean, in his gravelly, Louis Armstrong-ish voice, “there will always be a change.” A friend didn’t expect her perfect grandchild to be stillborn.

Guess what! We can celebrate that spring begins on March 19. This is the date of the spring equinox, where day and night are almost the same length.

They get purchased twice a year. At Easter it's a pastel-colored, multi-flavored package and at Christmas it's the green and red tubs. I don't take note of when the spring pack gets finished off but I do know when the Christmas ones get eaten up.

The Patrick family had roots in Canada since 1822, when they emigrated from Ireland to Québec. They had moved to Ontario by the time Thomas Patrick was born in 1864.

If there has ever been any doubt that the marketplace for agriculture products can change overnight it has certainly been reaffirmed over the last week or 10 days.

Toilet paper is an interesting industry. Basically, toilet paper is something that is well known. Each individual person uses roughly the same amount each year, so demand can be easily tracked.

Consider what’s going on all through Canada — and North America: Conservatives are finding themselves uniting under big tents while those on the left are most squabbling and setting up their own tiny encampments.