Opinion

Longtime Yorkton resident Murray George was kind enough to drop off some old Yorkton newspapers he found last week and there was one newspaper from 1972 that I skimmed through and I was shocked to learn there wasn't a single article in there written

One of my former editors frequently said, "Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and again." I have to reluctantly admit that while the federal Conservatives have been blindly executing their dumb on crime agenda, they actually found a nut.

Have you ever wondered why there are so many commonalities between words in seemingly distinct languages? Being a writer, I am always interested in the etymology of words and the evolution of language.

Some people think a widespread shift from fossil fuels to cleaner energy sources is not practical or even possible.

The Yorkton branch of the Saskatchewan Genealogy Society will be holding their next regular meeting on Tuesday, May 14 at 7:00 p.m. at the Western Development Museum, Yorkton.

You are probably familiar with the amazing Canadian painter Allen Sapp, a Cree artist who is famous the world over for his powerful and wonderful images of childhood memories growing up near North Battleford.

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

Dear Editor: In the last provincial budget the Sask. Party government played up an announcement that it was going to increase agricultural research investments thanks to the Growing Forward 2 agreement.

In this day and age when so much of the Saskatchewan economy is being driven by the private sector, it's easy to forget the value of the province's Crown corporations.

In the world of crime there are the truly heinous, rapes, murders, kidnapping, the kind which make the sensible among us cringe at what people are capable of.