Opinion

With the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president, many investors believe that a new era of political uncertainty is going to increase stock market volatility.

I guess it makes sense that the craziest election campaign anyone ever witnessed would produce a spectacularly crazy result. And I still can’t believe it.

The challenge is on. The moment I heard my daycare income was coming to a near halt three months earlier than anticipated, I felt like a squirrel that got caught off guard in the middle of summer.

Donald Trump didn't beat Hillary Clinton because he's a man - he won because Clinton is at least as flawed as he is

A significant proportion of future Canadian retirees are going to suffer measurable deterioration in their standards of living

Dear Editor In 2012, Crown Corporations, SaskTel, SaskPower, SaskEnergy, SGI, Sask. Gaming and ISC, earned $524.9 million in profits and returned $325.5 million in dividends to government coffers.

Ed, my old neighbour from Saskatchewan, was still cranky from a bout of the flu and cold yesterday. Thankfully, his cold and flu had gone away, but not all of his grumpiness had disappeared.

Dear Editor Before the presidential election in the United States, Mike D’Amour, who is strongly anti-Trump, bet me $5 that Trump would not win. Trump won! I now have Mike D’Amour’s $5. It came wrinkled and crumpled.

“Check rear park aid.” That’s what my 2011 Ford Expedition Max’s instrument panel computer told me yesterday, after I drove over some muddy gravel. Just slightly muddy, but still, it was wet. Maybe some mud got onto a sonar sensor.

Obstacles. Challenges. Road blocks. They seemingly appear out of nowhere to make us stronger in achieving our goals. Being a pessimist will cause you to think that the whole world is against you, like Jolene.