Opinion

The biggest problem is in food processing. Across the country, companies are struggling to recruit. Incentives may be required

I’d have made a crummy pioneer woman. Oh, I could’ve cooked and cleaned alright, and milking cows and caring for livestock wouldn’t have been a problem.

I told Ed, my old neighbour in Saskatchewan, that our pastor had a great sermon on anger. Anger and I are too often friends. Ed commented that it would have been better if our pastor had spoken on stupidity, which causes most irritation.

The Wood Pile

Lately I’ve been mulling over the power of a number of specific kinds of words known as conjunctions. These seven short words, “for, and, nor, but, or, yet and so” can change the entire meaning of a statement.

“One day a professor told his students he was giving them a surprise test and proceeded to hand out papers with only a blue dot near the bottom of the page. “I want you to write about what you see here”.

The year 2020. It’s been strange, unusual and now it seems like the year has flown by without us even realizing it.

Emptiness has become such a pervasive emotion, leading Pope Francis to describe our situation as “artificial paradise”. This state of affairs underlies the depression and addiction of most accomplished people.

Hiebert on History

From the Pastor’s Desk of TBC