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The Meeple Guild: You will get sick, but will you survive?

The Meeple Guild: You will get sick, but will you survive?

Since Pandemic became a huge board game hit, there have been other games were you cooperatively battle to deal with various diseases. Build a Cure is one of those. “You and a group of scientists were caught in a nuclear test failure.
Sunny Side Up - Farewell to a beloved church

Sunny Side Up - Farewell to a beloved church

My childhood church closed last week. Amalgamated, actually. It seems a kinder word. The few remaining members and attendees voted to take their worship, along with their pastor, across BC’s Fraser River to merge with a larger church.
Gardener's Notebook - Flowers have their own language

Gardener's Notebook - Flowers have their own language

There is a very unique language, the language of flowers. Over the centuries, flowers have taken on different meanings, and the people of the time knew and understood these meanings.
Thinking I do with words - Tracking a perpetual rumor machine

Thinking I do with words - Tracking a perpetual rumor machine

Way back in the early ‘90s, a popular car magazine made a joke about how to easily sell magazines.
The Ruttle Report - Memories of Summers Passed

The Ruttle Report - Memories of Summers Passed

Summer is far, far too short. I think we can all agree on that. It feels like Canada Day was just yesterday, and it’s as if I just blinked and three weeks and change had shot by.
Gov’t taking Crown dividends makes no sense

Gov’t taking Crown dividends makes no sense

Saskatchewan’s Crown corporations made $541 million in 2018-19, according to the Crown Investment Corp. (CIC) annual report. Let us consider that from a number of perspectives.
Mirasty has rare opportunity in new role

Mirasty has rare opportunity in new role

Saskatchewan has a new lieutenant-governor. That is noteworthy of course based on the untimely passing of Lt.-Gov. Tomas Molloy, but this appointment by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is about more than filling the shoes left by Molloy.
My Outlook - Because Everybody Else is Doing It

My Outlook - Because Everybody Else is Doing It

"She should have her children taken away." "Somebody needs to tune her in big time. Who does she think she is?" These are just two of the hundreds of comments directed toward a mom in Ontario.
Graduation and helpful life lessons

Graduation and helpful life lessons

Billionaire Robert F. Smith promised to pay off the college debt of 400 seniors at Morehouse College, Atlanta, amounting to $40 million. All he asked in return was that they pay it forward.
Currently at the Godfrey Dean Gallery

Currently at the Godfrey Dean Gallery

‘Vera Saltzman: O Human Child’
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