Opinion

Biologists recently found a strange monkey in the Amazon. They didn't know this unusual creature with its bright red beard and tail even existed.

God has gifted us all with seven days per week. Like beads, he strings them together with a sturdy thread of words - read, spoken, even written.

We're passed Labour Day and the signs point to that special time. The combines are rolling, the leaves are starting to turn and the annual 'Rider-Bomber Labour Day Classic is in the books.

It was a somewhat surprising story which hit the front page of this newspaper last week.

Is it just me, or is it hard to believe that it's September already? Wasn't it just a moment ago that you and I were talking about starting our gardens, and what we would plant; and now the days are so much shorter and the air is crisper.

I spent a week around July 1 in a cabin on one of Haida Gwaii's remote islands. I was there to celebrate a birthday - not Canada's, but my grandson's second.

The City of Yorkton will be investing millions of dollars over the next decade in an attempt to protect the community from the extensive damage like that suffered July 1, last year when the city experienced a massive storm, one later described as a o

What would you say are one of the most planted, most used, and least appreciated vegetables in our gardens? I would say beets, and here's why.

One of the more intriguing mysteries about the late Jack Layton's career is why he didn't do better here. After all, when Jack Layton started out as federal NDP leader, all he and his party had going for it was Saskatchewan.