Opinion

A familiar adage cautions us to never meet our heroes lest we discover they have feet of clay. The danger is that we find out just how ordinary and fallible they might be.

Given the lack of Liberal MPs that exist on the Canadian Prairies, and in particular in Alberta and Saskatchewan, it is rather obvious the federal Liberal Party is not particularly popular out this way.

Dear Editor: As the new year begins I would like to give a big shout out to the wonderful lifeguards at the Gallagher Centre Pool. Obviously they keep everyone safe, from toddlers to seniors.

There is a bottom line to the railway blockades and the other illegal protests across the country in support of the Wet’suwet’en fight against the Coastal GasLink project. Illegal protests have to stop.

In many ways the best things in a community such as Yorkton exists by the efforts of dedicated volunteers.

Wouldn’t you know it, the store was closed when I got down there to Dinsmore that day back on Saturday, August 24, 2013. I hadn’t planned on that.

Canada is respected globally for the freedoms we who live here enjoy. It’s not perfect, but it’s a geographically and culturally diverse land with spectacular environments and friendly people.

I saw a story last week about first time home buyers in Toronto and how a price of $45,000 over 35 years ago has ballooned to $690,000 today. It’s over-simplifying, but that’s the problem with the Canadian economy in a nutshell.

Fakir is a game that will remind many of the 1967 release Kerplunk, the stick and marble game most my age will recall from their childhood.

I’m pounding the keyboard of my old Dell into the table right now. I spoke to a young friend earlier today. Yesterday was unseasonably warm for mid-winter.