Opinion

The federal government recently announced a reorganization of the National Research Council to make it more "business-led" and industry-focused. It appears we're coming full circle to the early 1970s, when Sen.

Dear Editor: This is my first year playing baseball. My dad has driven past the diamonds at JC Beach with me many times but I've never played there. It is like playing on a big league field. The grass is always perfect and the gravel is red.

Friday is Aboriginal Day in Canada, a day which celebrates the culture of the first Canadians.

Dear Editor: Several weeks ago, the nation saw a TV report of abuse of an elderly woman in a Peterborough, Ontario nursing home.

The longest day of the year is coming, gardeners: on Friday, June 21 at approximately 1:04 a.m., we will enjoy the summer solstice! It's the longest day of the year, when the sun reaches its farthest point north of the equator.

So, police spend five months building a case against numerous drug dealers. This involves painstaking and potentially dangerous undercover work, coordination of several agencies, execution of dozens of warrants and multiple arrests.

Perhaps the old line that rural municipalities are about gravel and gopher poison was never quite true. But it's certainly safe to say that Saskatchewan RMs these days are dealing with issues far more complex than that.

I am told that bringing up the subject of daylight savings time in Saskatchewan "brings out the crazies.

"It's time to get your faith dancing," croons gospel singer Sandi Patty. I'm sure she means those good days, when you live up to what you say you believe, and know you'd die for the same.