Opinion

If you're reading this in Canada, chances are good that you can go to your kitchen and pour yourself a glass of cold, clean drinking water straight from the tap. If you've had a stressful day, you can run yourself a nice warm bath.

I've worked elections for almost half my lifetime. It's a family hobby, sort of. Between the Preacher, myself and our children - even an in-law who's caught the bug, we've seen elections from most angles.

So just how solid is the Conservative base in rural Saskatchewan? Really solid, Consider the numbers: Battlefords-Lloydminster. All the other candidates, 9,311 votes. Conservative Gerry Ritz, 18,847 votes.

It's that time many people dread, or wish would just go away, the time to fill out the census forms which have arrived in homes across Canada recently.

One word can have so many meanings, can't it? The word "gothic" can mean a period of time, a style of architecture, a genre of fiction, and more lately, a fashion and lifestyle.

Dear Editor: As many of you are aware, an application was made to the courts in December 2010 regarding a Pecuniary Conflict of Interest by two councillors of the Town of Kamsack.

"I'm going to be a grandmother!" my friend Shelley announced at a "just-us-gals" gathering in my living room. Delight skittered over her face as she shared the happy news from her recently married daughter.

It happened almost overnight, didn't it: we went from drifts of snow to robins chirping and tender green shoots of perennials shyly stretching towards the sun.

By the time you read this, Premier Brad Wall may be preparing to deal with a Liberal-NDP coalition government he doesn't want.