Opinion

The A. J. Pick Outfit is threshing at the Al Michael farm at Waldron in October of 1911. They threshed the full harvest season with only 7 men — an engineer, fireman, separator man and 4 stook teams.

So the big thing in the news last week that was dissected, broken down and built back up time and time and time again by seemingly every media outlet in the Western hemisphere was a photo scandal that bit Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau in the bu

The box sat in the computer room for weeks. Inside was a collection of paper to shred and items that needed a place to be stored. I looked at it every day but always found a reason not to deal with it. I stepped over and around the box.

I hate my phone. I didn’t always hate my phone, I actually quite liked its predecessor, a Motorola Moto X Play. It was partially made of rubber so it was durable – it was dropped from great heights many times without a problem.

One might wonder what the Saskatchewan Party’s first general election 20 years ago this month has to with today’s federal election.

The federal election campaign has quickly become a quagmire where the politicians or at least their most ardent supporters are flinging mud about this candidate, or that candidate, often based on things that happened years ago.

I love salsa. I add it to scrambled eggs, wraps and pasta; and when it comes to nachos, the chips and cheese are really just the background to the star of the show: the salsa.

I spouted a mouthful of fake news at lunch the other day. To the grandchildren, no less. With a federal election pending, it seemed natural that the discussion around our table turned to politics.

I’ve attended a lot of meetings with politicians at the front of the room since I moved to Estevan in late 2008, but in all that time, I have never seen a small-c conservative politician roasted as I did on September 4.

This is a busy week! To start, the first fall meeting of the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society will be held on Wednesday, September 18 at 7:00 p.m. at SIGN on North Street, Yorkton.