Opinion

In some respects the current municipal election may seem like the one which will be remembered as lacking a galvanizing issue. And in some respects that is the case.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders don't cease to amaze do they? Only the Roughriders could get blown out of a game they should've won big in.

Sometimes I think being a crime reporter must be a lot like being a cop.

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

"Would you like a combine ride?" a friend asked in late September. Would I? Would I? In over two decades of flatland living, no one had ever asked. Later that week I perched in the cab of her family's air-conditioned combine.

Austrian Felix Baumgartner accomplished three things this weekend no other human has ever done.

Have you ever grown mallow in your garden? Over the summer, I have seen mallow in several forms, colors and sizes in various gardens.

Pity the beef producers of our province. They just can't seem to get a break. A decade ago it was the BSE "crisis".

Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days. Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad.