Opinion

Great Art Class! Among the requirements of “Visual Arts 104A” at the University of California, San Diego is that, for the final exam, students would make a presentation while nude, in a darkened room.

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.

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.

It shouldn’t come as a surprise to any taxpayer in Yorkton, or for that matter and urban community in Saskatchewan, there is an infrastructure shortfall happening.

Regardless of your political persuasion, by now you have to agree with Saskatchewan Party Premier Brad Wall about one thing: It’s time to abolish the Senate.

Health Minister Rona Ambrose was “outraged.” Outraged, no less.

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

If you are a regular reader of this column, you know I have very little sympathy for people who commit violent crime; but I do have sympathy for one person this week. His name is Blaine Taypotat.

In 1962, biologist and writer Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, a book about the widespread use of agricultural pesticides, and how toxic chemicals like DDT were threatening insects, birds and other elements of our natural world.