Opinion

I am sometimes known for taking very unpopular positions. Judging from the fury on Facebook, this will probably be one of those weeks as I defend the Court’s decision in the Ungar case.

It’s hard to believe it has been two years since scientists produced the first “test tube” burger. It was actually more of a Petri dish burger, but that’s kind of a case of splitting stem. That burger cost $335,000 to produce.

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

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.

Brothers Charles and David Koch run Koch Industries, the second-largest privately owned company in the U.S., behind Cargill.

Gardeners, please join us for the next meeting of the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society on Wednesday, April 15 at 7:00 PM at SIGN on North Street.

“Payday’s comin,’” people often say, when crossed. But what goes around doesn’t always come around quickly. Not even when what went around was a kindness, great or small.

After seven years of federal deficits following the 2008 economic downturn and subsequent massive stimulus binge, the federal government is finally on track to be back in the black.

When Saskatchewan Finance Minister Ken Krawetz spoke to the Yorkton Chamber of Commerce luncheon recently there was an interesting tidbit that he dropped right at the end of his presentation on the provincial budget.

The patience of Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart would be admirable, were there some probability our problems could be solved with more patience.