Opinion

After the long and bitter fight over ending the Canadian Wheat Board's monopoly as a single-desk seller, a gleeful Saskatchewan Party MLA was waxing on this spring about how a big impediment to modern-day farming had been eliminated.

It surprises that here we are in 2014 and we are still having to promote the idea of not smoking.

"Good morning, Dr. Phil!" I said, lifting my clattering phone. Laughter greeted me. "I'm always amazed that you know my voice." "Call display helps," I told him.

There may be something worse than a backbencher who is not sure he or she has a role is in a government caucus.

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

As I was preparing for my vacation to Mexico last Thursday I should have been excited, but I wasn't. I was anxious. Not about the trip, but because I had somehow fallen behind on my writing.

Ian Mauro, an environmental and social scientist at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, recently toured Atlantic Canada, interviewing fishers, hunters, farmers, businessmen, First Nations and local politicians about climate change.

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.

Sorry for the heavy concentration of sports this week, but hopefully it's still interesting for those of you who prefer the Home and Garden Channel.

We've had it all in January, haven't we, gardeners! Temperatures close to -50 degrees, a day or so of melting temperatures (imagine, puddles on the driveway!), and winds that were almost strong enough to earn an F1 status.