Opinion

The vision we have both of the world today, and how it will look in the future, is most certainly influenced by the date on our birth certificates.

There are times in this business when it’s simply great to be wrong. And being wrong about the low expectations of Jody Wilson-Raybould’s testimony before the House of Commons justice committee was one of those times.

I just returned from eastern Europe having spent about a month in the country of Romania. I wasn’t there as a tourist yet I was able to see a lot. I wasn’t there as an employee yet I did a lot of work.

“Derek, thank you for the work that you do.” That’s how Ernie Louttit signed my copy of his second book. Ernie’s a former Saskatoon city cop with 26 years under his belt who retired in 2013 to begin the next chapter of his life as a writer.

While it is still months away there is the definite scent of a federal election in the air. The upcoming campaign, which is already getting started if one follows the rhetoric of social media, feels as though it may be a battle fought in the mud.

It all started in early December to mid-December; when protests, many of which had participants sporting yellow vests, sprouted up in most significant oilpatch towns in Western Canada.

There is no level to which Justin Trudeau will not stoop. Last Wednesday when he held a press conference to answer Jody Wilson-Raybould’s very damaging statements to the Commons Justice Committee, he trotted out his 10-year-old daughter with him.

She stood up too fast. She went down faster. Two minutes later that daughter of mine came to in a basket of folded laundry, a brass lampshade on her head. Everyone found that funny. Amanda did too, until the headache from hell began and didn’t stop.

On February 17, 2019, the Yorkton Genealogical Society raffle ticket draw was made at the Western Development Museum. The draw was made at the end of the “Ties That Bind” Museum Program.