Opinion

Most years have something we will look back on as the key memory on the year. Few will not forget the Royal Visit to our city in 2007, or the flood of 2010. The current year is likely to be remembered as the 'Year of the Build'.

Dear Editor: In last week's Regina Leader Post a member of the Viterra Board of Directors claims "property rights are at the heart of our enterprise system.

Battleship (DVD/Blu-Ray) - Dir. Peter Berg. Starring Taylor Kitsch, Brooklyn Decker, Liam Neeson. No one in the world thought it was a good idea to make the board game "Battleship" into a feature film.

The Dictator (DVD/Blu-Ray) - Dir. Larry Charles. Starring Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris, Ben Kingsley. As shock comedies go, The Dictator is dumb, but mostly it's just dull.

Preventing illness is the best way to get health-care costs down. So why aren't governments doing more to protect the environment? We've long known that environmental factors contribute to disease, especially contamination of air, water, and soil.

I think that when someone ladled out hard and difficult questions, for the asking by the likes of us, the ladle spilled all over the spot reserved for children. "What are wildflowers, Nana?" asked one, a few days ago. "Weeds, mostly.

I don't know when it happened, gardeners, but everything looks like "fall" now, doesn't it. I know some of you have already been starting to clear out your gardens.

It appears Premier Brad Wall's Saskatchewan Party government has tapped into the formula for political success in the province. Or at least, the Sask.