Opinion

We Canadians love the wilderness. Whether we're talking to visitors here or people we meet in our travels, our conversations almost always end up about our great outdoors and pristine natural spaces.

Since their births, our four grandbeans have absorbed the habits of their nearest and dearest adults. I should mention here that their daddy is a preacher. That their grandfather is the Preacher.

A city like Yorkton becomes a community thanks to the efforts of volunteers. So it was a good thing when at their regular meeting Monday Yorkton Council unanimously declared National Volunteer Week in the city.

Bottom-trawl fisheries are often criticized for their environmental impacts. I've been among the vocal critics.

Our family participated in three funerals this week. A closely bundled trio of funerals bends one's thoughts in uncomfortable directions. How stubbornly I insist - we all insist - on leaning on spiderwebs.

Dear Editor: It was very funny to hear the Prime Minister of Canada imply that the takeover of Viterra by Glencore, already the world's No. 1 commodities trader, should not be viewed as "not primarily foreign".

Dear Editor: This letter is about doors, and I don't mean the singing group. I definitely do not feel a song coming on. This is something that seems very strange to me.

By no means do I want my column to be an advertisement for local businesses, but I do feel the need to share a bit of my experience in a new fitness class called TRX. In a nutshell, it's suspension training.

The notion that today's kids must be the most spoiled, ungrateful and entitled generation is nothing new. It's a sentiment that our parents' generation felt and all generations before them.