Opinion

A lot has been written about the Internet having a dumbing effect on people. I was stuck for a topic this week, so I decided maybe it was time for another dumb criminals column, but I’ve already done most of the ones that are really good.

One of the surprising things about space exploration is that it is always surprising us.

When an assassin killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914, no one called it the start of the First World War. That happened years later, after the implications, consequences and scale of the response could be assessed. It’s often the way.

Gardeners, there are a lot of wonderful things coming up for us to enjoy! First of all, congratulations to everyone connected with the Yorkton In Bloom competition: those who organized the event, the judges, and of course, all the gardeners! Your eff

We’re rolling East, homeward bound, as I write this. I sit in our van’s passenger seat, tapping computer keys, writing out the days of my life in my journal. Fodder for this column. But I’m fighting THE NOD. You know it.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders sit in last place in the Canadian Football League after four weeks.

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 my last column I wrote about being stung by a scorpion. That story brought another vivid memory to mind which involved my Gedo, my cousin, myself and a wasp.

It’s somewhat of a tradition for Canadian politicians to throw around money at election time, wooing voters with promises of financial largess for themselves and their communities.

My English language research found these rather obscure words, and the stories just followed. The words are all real and they are listed in various English dictionaries.