Opinion

In 2012, Crown corporations SaskTel, SaskPower, SaskEnergy, SGI, SaskGaming and ISC earned $524.9 million in profits and returned $325.5 million in dividends to government coffers.

Around this time in November, the provincial finance minister traditionally provides the fall budget update, letting the people of Saskatchewan know how well we are doing.

There is much interest in the fate of the world’s varied ecosystems.

All of us have that certain family member or friend who has the knack for telling a great story.

Humour provides amusement and provokes laughter.

My Norwegian nephews and nieces told me during one of my visits that I speak ancient Norwegian. Well, the Norwegian language has evolved over the close to 50 years I have lived in Canada. The English language has evolved as well.

While I wouldn’t quite call myself an electric vehicle skeptic, I have been a bit of a realist about the vehicles.

If you are up at 6 or 7 a.m. on the 24th, a glance out an east-facing window will give you a nice view of the waning crescent Moon about 5 degrees above Jupiter, or on the 25th, 5 degrees below.

It could have ended very badly. Last week in Regina a woman left her sleeping baby in her running vehicle to run into a store. It is disturbing that anybody could succumb to such a bad idea, but I do understand the impulse.

Dear Editor, I’ve done the math and even in these lean times I’ve taken the time from trying to put food on the table to try and understand why Mr. Wall does not do the obvious.