Opinion

The season of meetings is coming to a close! The Yorkton and District Horticultural Society will be holding their season wind-up on Wednesday, June 19.

Anytime you can cross even a few elements of the role playing Dungeons & Dragons game into the realm of board games, it tends to be a good thing. Or, at the very least it is a hook to catch the attention of this gaming group.

I didn't get to know her very well prior to the accident. She was one of many new students that fall.

Being a rather long-in-the-tooth reporter of things agricultural on the Canadian Prairies – some three decades now – there have of course been some constants to what makes news.

Recently, Google announced its Stadia platform. It is a way for people to play games, with most of the processing happening off site on different hardware, and streaming the games to the end user.

Every small town has got their own little nuances and niches, or sayings and experiences that make them unique to that specific area.

Consider your friends for moment. If you live in rural Saskatchewan — especially on the farms — they may be your neighbours. But your neighbours will be much further apart than your parents’ neighbours and certainly your grandparents’ neighbours.

Starting Oct. 1, minimum wage earners in Saskatchewan will be taking home some extra coin. The province has said the minimum wage will increase to $11.32 an hour, up 26 cents. It is currently $11.06 an hour.

The impact of government interference in agriculture markets is most certainly in full swing again. With China flexing its political muscles by using trade as a chip in the game, counter measures were naturally going to happen.

Can you imagine the federal Liberals emerging from this fall’s national election with more seats in Saskatchewan than they already have? Admittedly, it takes a fair bit of imagination. And it will take more than a little luck on the Liberals’ part.