Opinion

Last Wednesday what may be a first for Yorkton, and certainly a first in many years, an organized cricket game was held with the public invited to take it in as fans. The crowd, in what is sadly true Yorkton fashion, was sparse.

StatsCan's release of 2012 Canadian crime statistics last week put me in mind of some of my favourite quotes about statistics. "I can prove anything by statistics except the truth," said former British prime minister George Canning.

More than 13 per cent of Canada's gross domestic product depends on healthy ecosystems, according to Environment Canada briefing notes obtained by Postmedia News.

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

"Isn't it nice we're having weather?" one of our friends regularly quips, in an unexpected twist of phrase. We've had a bit of twisty weather in my part of Saskatchewan lately.

Like smokers who put off quitting until their health starts to suffer, we're learning what happens when bad habits catch up with us.

Whether you like him or not - and there are few that sit on the fence when it comes to how they feel about the feisty Gerry Ritz - his tenure as federal Agriculture Minister is starting to become rather impressive.

The fact that I'm even writing about this means the Rolling Stone has accomplished exactly what it set out to do by putting the accused Boston Marathon Bomber on their front cover.

Sometimes you can make a decision for a lot of the right reasons, and it still ends up being the wrong decision.