Opinion

Australians have overrun Banff. Our friends from down under have secured nearly every job at the popular tourist trap. That’s the impression I got during my 12-hour visit. I’m pretty sure that’s more than enough time to get an accurate sample size.

Photo taken 1947. Yorkton’s first grist mill was built by Yorkton’s founders, the York Farmers’ Colonization Company of Toronto in 1884 on the east bank of the Little White Sand River. (Name changed to “Yorkton Creek” in 2000.

My favorite meal growing up as a kid was probably mushroom soup. Not chicken fingers, not hot dogs or hamburgers, and not even pizza. Just a hot bowl of cream of mushroom soup, often paired with a peanut butter and jam sandwich.

It is sometimes easy to think that living in Canada somehow insulates us from the terror of mass shootings. Of course that is not the case, as was brought into focus for us all again as a gunman struck in the Greektown area of Toronto Sunday.

Well, another slap in the face for us seniors who depend on the bus to get around. First, STC and now Greyhound. There will be no way to get anywhere.

When it comes to agriculture the equine sector sometimes seems to get lost.

We can all agree that the end of Greyhound bus service on the prairies is a tragic loss. We should agree that this was a business decision unfortunately based on changing times and changing economies.

AstroTurf looks and feels like grass — in an all-too-perfect way. But it’s not grass.

In 1754, English author Horace Walpole coined one of the most delightful words in the English language. He formed it after reading a Persian fairy tale titled, The Three Princes of Serendip.