Opinion

One might not think there are many similarities between Saskatchewan’s last two premiers. Politically speaking, the views of the NDP’s Lorne Calvert and the Saskatchewan Party’s Brad Wall couldn’t be much more different.

The year 2018 is well underway and I have not yet broken any resolutions. That could be because I haven’t made any. Well, that’s not quite true—I did make a promise to myself which, in many respects, bears resemblance to a resolution.

I set up No. 1 daughter, Katrina, with her own computer, Lightroom 4 and Photoshop Elements 13. The first thing she did was Photoshop my head onto Peter Griffin's body. That’s Peter Griffin, the Family Guy; heh, heh.

Dear Editor: What is Canada’s leading preventable cause of disease and death? It’s tobacco. This week is National Non-Smoking Week, providing a reminder that tobacco is still our number one public health issue.

Things just aren’t the way they used to be when we were kids. That’s a common saying among multiple age groups, and I don’t think it’s exclusive to any particular one.

One thing about rainwater is that it rarely stays in the same spot that it falls. It has a tendency to flow across the landscape collecting in natural spots such as sloughs, creeks and rivers.

Some family trees have beautiful leaves. Ours has a few nuts. But there is nothing I would change.

P. T. Barnum is an exemplar of the “American Dream,” a man who pulled himself up from the lower-class into the heights of the public consciousness. He was also a shameless huckster who duped thousands of people with endless hoaxes and lies.

Several D words have sometimes linked themselves to our granddaughter’s name in the decade since her birth. Dinah-mite. Dynamic Dinah. Dina-sore. But the alliteration that always fits is Dinah Dancer.