Opinion

Calling it the issue he's received the most calls on since he joined City Council, Ross Fisher agrees there needs to be further study done before the decision is made to close off 7th Ave North off Broadway Street, rendering it a cul de sac.

I don't use Facebook much. I post my weekly columns and when I have time, I jot a few notes to others. Rarely do I share more. But then, ordinarily I sit DOWN to breakfast, not ON my breakfast. I'm talking more than semantics here, understand.

Have you ever thought about the grass that grows in sidewalk cracks? These hardy plants are generally written off as undesirable. They're routinely trampled, savaged by extreme summer heat, washed out by rainfall and buried by winter snow.

In this age of partisanship at all costs, the spirit of political co-operation and compromise is something that seems to have fallen out of favour in political discussion. We've heard a little more about it south of the border since U.S.

Welcome to Week XXVII of 'Fishing Parkland Shorelines'.

Well, gardeners, if we ever had a doubt whether winter was here to stay, last week's storm made it clear to us, didn't it! I guess one good thing about all that snow; our perennials all have a great winter blanket now! But let's you and I leave the s

The Yorkton Terriers of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League have always been a sort of focal point for the community.

I love the smell of 100-year-old newsprint in the morning. Last week as I was digging through our "newspaper morgue"-an activity that could consume all of my time if I didn't have stories to write-I came across the intriguing 1912 murder of Rev.

I had a great question from a colleague last week and, since I have been admittedly negligent in dealing with the issue of zombies, I'd like to take some time to discuss this important subject.