Opinion

The Sept. 27 Regional Optimist supplement “Specially For Seniors” might better have been titled “Specially For People With A Seniors Problem.

Dear Editor Like many people in North Battleford and area I have had to use the victim services unit at the local RCMP detachment. I continue to make use of this wonderful service although, like many, I wish I didn’t have to.

For us Canadians, an October weekend is our traditional time to celebrate around turkey, yams and pumpkin pie. For other of my readers who mark the same event in November, Thanksgiving weekend will soon be here.

For many of us, Thanksgiving involves getting together with folks we enjoy and eating a lot of food. In Canada it is timely as we have usually just finished or are in the process of finishing the harvest of our gardens.

In the early hours of a frigid February morning in 1933, a devastating fire at the Imperial Hotel in Tisdale took the lives of eight people. Among the victims were Mrs.

The other day I visited a long-time friend, and together we lamented the state of political discourse today. Steve and I have known each other since somewhere around 1992, give or take.

Dear Editor The Battlefords Chamber of Commerce has proposed pressuring the provincial government to move the liquor store out of downtown North Battleford.

For most of my life, the North American Free Trade Agreement wasn’t something that people questioned. After the free trade elections of the late 1980s, it was something that none of the major political parties really talked about.

Fall is usually the time to clean up the garden and shut things down but there is one job that every vegetable gardener needs to do before winter freeze-up — plant your garlic. In order for garlic bulbs to form cloves, a cold period is required.

Dear Editor It was predictable! The Canadians succumbed to Trump’s blackmail and threw the dairy sector of Canada under the bus.