Opinion

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.

Well, it’s March! We have certainly gone through some tough weather, and will really treasure spring when it arrives! Isn’t it great to look at garden items in the stores! There’s hope for spring! Just to remind you, the next meeting of the Yorkton a

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I have to say out of the mail wrapping I was immediately impressed by the packaging for the new game Trinity.

I am a rugby fan, as regular readers have no doubt already noted. In fact, I would chose to watch rugby over any other sport, although, that has long meant union rugby, or as I term it 15s.

It’s a tired old argument when people say that today’s kids are having a childhood that is, in some way, worse than their own.