Opinion

I think we can say that fall has arrived. I know many people love the heat of summer, but I thoroughly enjoy the crisp days, the crunch of leaves underfoot, and the whole process of cleaning up the yard and putting this year's garden to bed.

For all the good news about Saskatchewan's population booming past 1.1 million people, let us hope Premier Brad Wall isn't forgetting about places like Davin.

View from the Cheap Seats is kind of an extension of the newsroom. Whenever our three regular reporters, Calvin Daniels, Thom Barker and Kelly Friesen are in the building together, it is frequently a site of heated debate.

For a few months in my teens, a large bear rug decorated my bedroom floor. Open-mouthed and silently snarling. I liked that rug, except for one thing.

The prospect of a new potash mine south of Yorkton had coffee shop and water cooler gatherings abuzz only a year or so ago.

My blood hit a boiling point this week after reading a story on the Global News website about a landlord in Calgary who, essentially, had her house stolen from her by a tenant.

"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past." In 1984, George Orwell's seminal How-To book for political despots, information is the currency of control.

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

The Yorkton Branch of the Saskatchewan Genealogy Society will be holding their regular meeting on Tuesday, October 8 at 7:00 p.m. at the Western Development Museum.

Starting in late September, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will release its Fifth Assessment Report in three chapters and a summary.