Opinion

I was standing in front of a massive line-up of people on Canada Day who were eagerly waiting to be granted access to something that has been years in the making.

It might not be new in terms of a challenge facing agriculture, but it is one that certainly needs to keep bubbling on the front burner in terms of a response.

“The reason grandparents get along so well with their grandchildren,” I heard someone say, tongue firmly planted in cheek, “is that they have a common enemy.” Our six live about an hour from us.

If you are interested in a mini-gardening-vacation, you might want to be part of the Saskatchewan Horticultural Association (SHA) gardening tour, July 14 – 16.

Going a little bit off on a tangent this week, it seemed appropriate to spend this week’s column on a great event three members of our highly informal Meeple Guild attended recently.

Over the past week to 10 days, at least in the Yorkton region we have received what my grandfather would have termed a million dollar rain. For grain producers conditions coming out of spring seeding were generally on the dry side of things.

I spent the month of February with my daughter and sister on a mission trip in Romania.

In the world of sports, at least for most Canadian sports fans July 1 is a big one. We are just past the National Hockey League a few days, and July 1, will mark the day teams start actively signing free agents.

The news that the federal Liberal government has approved the Trans Mountain (TMX) pipeline isn’t just good news from the economic perspective.

I am not a morning person. It’s not merely that I’m a late sleeper, though I am. While I find it easy to get up by 10 a.m. anything before that actually requires a bit of effort.