Opinion

The 'old mill' as everyone locally simply refers to it is one of those properties in Yorkton which has become something of an anomaly.

Every once in a while you will be sitting among a group of people in our city and the conversation will turn to what there is to do in our community and invariably someone will laugh with that tone which suggests there is nothing which ever goes on i

A very dear friend was telling me about how she throws evening scented stocks seeds here and there in her garden, filling in little empty garden spaces with this easy-growing annual that will perfume the air with sweet aroma in the evenings.

Every so often, when I'm walking alone and the wind is right, I smell the fragrance of my father's workshop.

On reading about the growing resistance to a mega-quarry being proposed for southern Ontario, I had an epiphany about the media's use of the term NIMBY, for "not in my backyard.

Twenty years ago, I used to watch professional wrestling and it was very clear who you were supposed to cheer for and who you were supposed to despise. It's 2011 and the NBA has developed its own heel: the Miami Heat.

Marking its 13th annual Gas Tax Honesty Day, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is renewing its call for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to stop the practice of charging H/GST on top of provincial and federal gas taxes - the tax-on-tax.

One of the more puzzling aspects of the provincial NDP's strategy has been its leader Dwain Lingenfelter's emphasis on rural Saskatchewan.

Dear Editor: It is very obvious that neither Agriculture Minister, Gerry Ritz or Prime Minister, Stephen Harper intend to allow Western grain producers to decide for themselves through a fair, honest vote whether they want the Canadian Wheat Board to