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Women-Only Beer Parlours, 1935

Women-Only Beer Parlours, 1935

Here’s a crazy idea that never took hold in Saskatchewan hotels on the corners of Railway and Main.
The do-it-yourself investment blues

The do-it-yourself investment blues

There’s nothing quite like the thrill of managing your own investments.
Saving seeds for the future

Saving seeds for the future

Seeds are the promise of future harvests as well as how plants guarantee their survival from generation to generation.
More tax-loss selling tips and tactics

More tax-loss selling tips and tactics

Many key tax-saving strategies need to be set up and implemented well before Dec. 31 if you want to benefit from them in the current year. Tax-loss selling is the classic example.
Byelections suggest Sask. Party still solid

Byelections suggest Sask. Party still solid

The Saskatchewan Party’s Sept. 12 byelection loss in Regina Northeast doesn’t much affect the short-term or even long-term future of this government. After all, the Sask.
Matronalia

Matronalia

By A.B. Dillon Published by Thistledown Press $20 ISBN 978-1-77187-153-2 "Life had not taught you that you were a girl yet." " ... my brain crawled with biting ants of recrimination.
Didn’t it rain!

Didn’t it rain!

“I know it rained; I'm tired of this rain (on the east). Been raining too long (in the west). It rained all day (to the north), all night long (in the south).
Low fixed-income returns can weigh on retirement plans

Low fixed-income returns can weigh on retirement plans

It has been a long time since the credit crisis in 2009-10 when stock markets steeply corrected. Since then, we have been in a long run with good steady returns without too much volatility.
Time to reform rural government

Time to reform rural government

Dear Editor Murray Mandryk’s well written piece on “Something needs to change at the RM level” (News-Optimist Sept. 4) served well to set the table regarding challenges being faced at the RM level.
Frost in autumn

Frost in autumn

There is fall in the air on the prairies. Even though the daytime temperatures are often still warm, at night our temperatures are dipping low enough to stop growth in hot crops like tomatoes and to colour up leaves.
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