Opinion

On April 6, many people stopped to help those who were injured in the Humboldt bus crash.

The art of repurposing

“Security is an illusion,” I complained to Ed, my old neighbour from Saskatchewan. I had received a letter concerning my pension plan from my church’s denomination. It seems it is no longer as secure as it should be.

It’s pothole season and in its annual bid to highlight crumbling highways in Saskatchewan, the Canadian Auto Association is taking votes in its Worst Roads Campaign. This week Highway 21 near Paradise Hill made the list.

A bus crashed and Humboldt faced tragedy this week. Yet this was a time for people to step up in many different ways.

Sunday, as I was driving to a friend’s house for what we call “card therapy,” I saw a woman out walking her small dog. The dog was hunkered down by a telephone pole and then scampered away after leaving its “deposit.

In the midst of the greatest dispute between two provinces since the 1995 Quebec referendum, the University of Alberta stepped in it, big time. They announced April 10 Dr.

Last week the News-Optimist newsroom once again bade farewell to Jayne Foster. Foster capably filled the role of interim editor when health issues forced me to take an entire year of leave.

In returning to my thoughts on the Book of Proverbs, warnings that I’d read about for decades suddenly jumped out at me. Although I’d been reading the chapter corresponding to each day of the month, all those “buts” took on a new significance.

We are fast approaching what is regarded as “summer blockbuster season.” That’s the time of year when the big “popcorn” movies and populist entertainment shows up at the cinemas: superheroes, special effects and comedies.