Opinion

Dear Editor: Last summer Andy Iwanchuk, NDP labour critic and I, as the NDP health critic, toured the province visiting smaller communities and their long-term care homes, health centers, and hospitals.

I'll be, relatively, brief on the Saskatchewan Roughriders this week. They are 1-and-4 to start the season and ended the last regular season with four losses out of five before going on a run in the playoffs. The fact is that this team is bad.

It has been an interesting year in terms of development in our city. In terms of construction the dramatic storm of July 1, 2010, slowed things notably in Yorkton last year, as the focus for many was simply repairing damage caused by the heavy rains.

Jack Layton climbs cancer challenge

Rio (DVD/Blu-Ray) - Dir. Carlos Saldanha. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, George Lopez. Soulless animated movie from Blue Sky Studios, the world's foremost specialist in soulless animated movies.

Another successful year of "Yorkton In Bloom" has come and gone - congratulations to all the winners in the various categories, and indeed, to everyone who took part and made this community project so interesting! Thank you also to Darren Spelay and

Many analogies have been drawn over the years between Saskatchewan's two favour sports - football and politics. Both are rough and tumble and often won in the trenches. Both will see the occasional cheap shot.

"I'm not having a heart attack," I said. But no one listened. Things move fast when you show up at emergency complaining of chest pain and trouble breathing.

When my daughter Severn was born in 1979, my wife Tara and I wanted to raise her with an understanding that a lot of food is seasonal, particularly vegetables and fruits, especially in a country like Canada.

Source Code (DVD/Blu-Ray ) - Dir. Duncan Jones. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga. A decent modern day sci-fi thriller from the director of Moon.