Opinion

Rural Saskatchewan might be unnerved to know that the bureaucrat who once had a key role in the closure of 52 rural hospitals is now providing recommendations on the future of rural schools. But there is less reason to worry here than one may think.

Ole and Lena were doing their Christmas shopping at Steen og Strøm in Oslo, Norway, which is a large department store like Walmart. They wandered around the store together, but after a while decided to split up and meet later.

Oh, it may not have seemed like much snow compared to someone who grew up in the mountains, but the walloping Estevan got in the week covering November 28 to December 6 was a memorable one for us prairie chickens.

The times change, and that is certainly evident with the current bovine tuberculosis outbreak here in Western Canada.

Rural Saskatchewan might be unnerved to know that the bureaucrat who once had a key role in the closure of 52 rural hospitals is now providing recommendations on the future of rural schools. But there is less reason to worry here than one may think.

With Winter Solstice officially arriving at 4:44 a.m.

I believe that ignorance should never be a point of pride, and when someone praises something unfamiliar you should make an effort to see what it is, rather than proclaiming you’ve never heard of it before.

Rural Saskatchewan might be unnerved to know that the bureaucrat who once had a key role in the closure of 52 rural hospitals is now providing recommendations on the future of rural schools. But there is less reason to worry here than one may think.

It’s been said that you can always tell how progressive and caring a community is by how it keeps its cemetery. The grass at the Canora Cemetery is well-cut by town employees.

"Naked I came from my mother's womb, naked I shall return” (Job 1:21). We spring into life in a natural way. We move with nature’s rhythms and we follow the whims of our inclinations like grass, “In a field / Behaving as the wind behaves” (T.S.