Opinion

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.

I haven't had a chance to comment, so this may be a little old; but feel as though I should throw my own two cents in anyway with regards to the Head Start Homes project.

When earlier this summer the surgeon delivered the diagnosis, the Preacher and I sat in the third emergency room on the left, wondering who we were now.