Opinion

I saw one of my high school teachers in Regina a while back who told me that he reads my columns with great interest.

When I learned about a former parishioner’s death from a mutual friend, the Preacher and I didn’t question whether to attend her funeral. Of course we’d go. Dorothy’s family (name changed) regularly attended our last church.

The days are definitely shorter, and if your garden clean-up is done, our garden season for this year is done! But you know gardeners! We’re always thinking ahead to next year, and it won’t be long till we start getting the 2019 seed catalogues.

This ad in the Yorkton This Week newspaper of June 23, 1982 gives us a history of telephone service in Yorkton over a period of 79 years — 1903 to 1982. 1903 — First time that Yorkton subscribers are able to use a telephone.

I have been thinking about the film Eraser recently. It hasn’t been because it’s a particularly great film – it wasn’t – but instead because it seems to be a completely forgotten film. I imagine most people don’t actually remember Eraser exists.

“Huh, they weren’t kidding,” I thought to myself last Wednesday. “Gary Oldman’s haircut really does look like two melted cobwebs fused to a bowling ball.

You know the drill by now; it’s the mixed bag of opinions and views from yours truly.

We have a trade deal and here in Saskatchewan that is a very big deal. Our livelihoods depend on trade.

We have a trade deal and here in Saskatchewan that is a very big deal. Our livelihoods depend on trade.

Today, the Cannabis Act, which creates a legal framework for controlling the production, distribution, sale and possession of cannabis across Canada, comes into effect. The Act is seen by some as a dark day in this country’s history.