Opinion

The Saskatchewan Roughriders dropped their fifth in a row, fourth in a row at home, over the weekend as the superior Hamilton Ti-Cats came in and left with a victory. In this contest, I just felt a better team emerged victorious.

On July 15, a state-of-the-art new pipeline near Fort McMurray, Alberta, ruptured, spilling five million litres of bitumen, sand and waste water over 16,000 square metres — one of the largest pipeline oil spills in Canadian history.

First of all, get out your calendars and mark down Tuesday, August 11, the day of the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society annual “Fruit, Flower, and Vegetable Show”. It begins at 1:00 p.m. and goes till 5:00 p.m. at St.

We were on vacation when the CN train derailed behind our house. A dozen cars rocked their way clear off the tracks, landing jackknifed and piggyback; a tangled mass of steel tonnage.

View from the Cheap Seats is kind of an extension of the newsroom. Whenever our three regular reporters, Calvin Daniels, Thom Barker and Randy Brenzen are in the building together, it is frequently a site of heated debate.

In ancient times a Chinese farmer lost his only horse. The horse had bolted from the yard and was gone. His neighbours came by to sympathize with him. “Such bad luck that your horse is gone,” they said.

Even before a single ballot is cast for the October 19 election, you can expect big changes when it comes to who represents you in rural Saskatchewan.

LOOKING BACK... A Decade Ago

Dear editor, Independent Senator Don Meredith, now ejected from the Conservative Party, is subject to ethics probes over allegations he harassed and bullied staff and had an affair with a 16-year-old girl. Having termed him-self until recently “Dr.

Of all the issues facing agriculture, and there are many, I find the debate around genetically modifi ed organisms to be perhaps the most fascinating.