Opinion

To suggest that the federal Conservative government are taking its rural Saskatchewan base for granted might be seen by some as a tad unfair.

You and I have talked of many things, of garden hopes and garden dreams and plants and springs but I don't think we have ever talked about the luscious strawberry.

In retrospect, I ought to have paid more attention when I first noticed the slight hiss in the basement. But it barely registered - until I went downstairs for something else, hours later.

I have a big problem with what went on in Yorkton last Thursday and Friday with regards to the enforcement of traffic laws and the City RCMP. In my opinion, traffic offenses are not at an epidemic level here.

A colleague told me his toddler was wandering through a neighbourhood park picking up twigs and sticks, brandishing them as tools for digging, poking, and tapping. Suddenly the boy stopped and pointed excitedly to the canopy of branches above.

Dear Editor: The Federal Government is attacking democracy in Canada. Farmers lost the Wheat Pool a few years ago. Its demise was brought about by legislation that killed the Crow Rate.

Somehow the Brad Wall government seems to be sending mixed message through its recent provincial budget. On the one hand there is the anticipated everything is wonderful rhetoric associated with most budgets.

For some, there's never a great time to revisit an unpopular idea ... or so the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce may soon find out if it pushes its idea of municipal amalgamation much further.

I don't wish to engage in a war of words, but do feel I should respond to Walter Farquharson; who wrote a letter to the editor a couple of weeks ago expressing sadness about my negative comments on judges.