Opinion

You don’t need anyone’s permission to enjoy things. People forget this constantly. They have a particularly bad habit of forgetting this when they’re confronted with someone respected who doesn’t enjoy the same things they do.

If you follow the workings of Yorkton Council in these pages on a regular basis you will be aware that groups and organizations regularly appear before Council seeking to have a day, a week, or a month proclaimed to highlight particular things.

While performing a medical examination, the practitioner asked a male relative of mine to say as many “F” words as possible, in as short a time as possible.

When I read a description that states “a steampunk deckbuilding game with crazy inventions that connect to make even cooler inventions,” I am pretty well hooked.

Mother Nature certainly changed her mind quickly this past week! Less than two weeks ago it was t-shirt weather, and now it seems “late fall” has landed on our doorsteps almost overnight.

I didn’t want to believe the reports. I refused to believe that it could happen. I swore up and down that everyone else was wrong.

It seemed like just the kind of place my sister and I would enjoy visiting so we made plans to drive the hour and 20 minutes one Saturday morning in August to check it out.

The outfit had a Waterloo Steam Tractor. The manufacturer was Iowa based, founded in 1893 by John Froelich, whose first engine was successfully used in the 1892 threshing season in South Dakota.

If anyone is still under the illusion that farming is anything other than big business these days a single farm for sale in Manitoba should exhibit one of the current reality.

The problem with Canada is that we’re very close to America. This isn’t always a problem, but it is in this election. Suddenly we’ve got a big American scandal right in the middle of our election.