Opinion

View from the Cheap Seats is an extension of the newsroom, which is frequently a site of heated debate on topics ranging from the extremely serious to the utterly ridiculous.

We will all feel the pain in this coming year of transformational change. Maybe that’s not much comfort.

Welcome to Week CCXI of ‘Fishing Parkland Shorelines’. Like most of us I am a novice fisherman, loving to fish, but far from an expert.

We will head back to the polls this fall, this time to determine who will be Yorkton’s Mayor and Council for the ensuing four years. The actual vote is not until Oct. 26, but it is not too early to start thinking about the election.

By Gail Krawetz

Replica #1 Written by Paul Jenkins Art by Andy Clarke AfterShock Comics One of the first offerings from AfterShock Comics, Replica grabbed me from the first few pages. I love cop stories set in space.

Our family is particularly fond of Scottish-Canadian tenor, John McDermott. At the first concert we attended, only a few years into his public singing career, I slipped a note backstage. Our teenage daughter Amanda was with us, I wrote.

Much has been said and written about the Donald Trump phenomenon, and much more is still to come in the next five months leading up the United States elections in November.

We’ve had great gardening weather, haven’t we! On my morning tour of the garden each day, I see that things are really getting nicely established.