Opinion

Altering environments to suit our needs is not new. From clearing land to building dams, we've done it throughout history.

In terms of municipal needs we have heard a lot in recent years about the impending infrastructure crunch Saskatchewan cities such as Yorkton are going to face in the not all too distant future.

Yorkton and area is blessed with an abundance of natural beauty and good quality land for producing food for humans and livestock. At this time of year field crops are ripening.

Scientists believe life appeared on Earth almost four-billion years ago, about half a billion years after our relatively young planet formed. It would be fascinating to see how life arose and managed to hang on.

I'm sure they weren't running through the brush on horses in red serge, but the image of the valiant Mountie "always getting his man" popped to mind when the press release came in last week that RCMP members from Wadena, Yorkton GIS and Swift Current

Dear Editor: The legacy of Terry Fox continues in Yorkton. Since 1980 when the Marathon of Hope started, over $600 million has been raised for cancer research and Yorkton has been a contributing community.

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

I'm not likely to make many new friends in broadcasting with this column, and I may even lose a few; but what you are about to read is something I feel I'm more than qualified to offer an opinion on.

We live in the era of information, for better or for worse. I say that because while information has never been more abundant and getting access to it has never been easier and faster the same can be said for disinformation.