Opinion

Dear Editor: As Father’s Day approaches, I often wonder whether my Father would have been around for this Father’s Day, if the following hadn’t happened.

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

The world did not end. I did go through some physical withdrawal, anxiety mostly, but after a few days that was gone. I still have some lingering emotional symptoms.

Reading the news, it’s hard not to feel a growing sense of unease.

Do you remember the show “Canadian Gardener” that ran on CBC many years ago? What a great gardening show, hosted by the knowledgeable David Tarrant.

If God had given me the choice of fathers, I may not have picked Dad. I may have picked a dad like my friend Jane’s. I never met the man. He was never home. But he bought her a horse.

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.

Saskatoon Mayor Don Atchison is taking a bit of heat for not attending that city’s Pride Parade over the weekend. I’m not sure if I can word this in a way that comes across as non-offensive or not, but I don’t understand why he needs to be there.

Every time a government borrows money there is an inevitable comparison to home mortgages. But an inch below the spin is the glaring reality that government debt is nothing like a mortgage.

Canada Day is a celebration of all that is great about our country – it honours our past, our present and our future.