Opinion

Take a walk through the Saskatoon Forestry Farm Park and follow in the footsteps of James McLean, John Whiteman, Les Kerr and Kate Husky who lived and worked there when it was the Sutherland Forest Nursery Station.

The way the marketing hype has it these days, you’d think investment costs have dropped to zero.

The wisdom of Agur, the son of Jakeh – a truly modest beginning to a chapter filled with truth. It is believed Agur lived in the same era as Solomon, but the only thing we know about him is found in the 30th chapter of Proverbs.

The 2018 federal budget, which was tabled in February, was expected to be a bad one for both businesses and individuals. Turns out it wasn’t quite as bad as expected.

Native species have the advantage of thousands of years of adaptation to local prairie conditions. By natural selection these plants have evolved a variety of mechanisms to cope with literally everything nature could possibly subject them to.

Real estate certainly has been in the news a lot these days, at least the residential component.

By Habeeb Salloum Published by University of Regina Press $34.95 ISBN 9780889775183 I had no idea Arab immigrants settled in rural Saskatchewan in the early part of the 20th century.

Ed, my old neighbour from Saskatchewan, makes light of bus trips for seniors. I told him we had just returned from a seniors’ bus excursion to Victoria. When Ed heard it was not a trip to a casino at Victoria, but the legislature, the Royal B.C.

The quiet town of Battleford became a bit quieter last summer. The Saskatchewan Handcraft Council brought to an end more than 40 years of history with a decision to no longer host the Saskatchewan Handcraft Festival in Battleford.

No two potato cultivars are alike. Every type of potato or cultivar has been bred for a particular purpose. Boiling potatoes don’t necessarily fry well and baking potatoes don’t necessarily boil well.