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Can McDonald's Happy Meal find a healthy balance?

Can McDonald's Happy Meal find a healthy balance?

An interesting idea to encourage children to get in shape in the wake of the Olympics completely backfired for the fast-food giant
300,000 reasons why ranking B.C. schools is a valuable activity

300,000 reasons why ranking B.C. schools is a valuable activity

Last year alone, about 300,000 parents, teachers, school principals, and others interested in B.C. schools visited the Fraser Institute's school performance website
My favourite veterans

My favourite veterans

Former Battleford boy Stocky Edwards and his wife Toni are pictured on the cover of Elinor Florence’s new book called My Favourite Veterans: True Stories of World War Two’s Hometown Heroes! Click here to find out how to order a copy. www.
Ready or Ripe? Vegetable harvest from A to Z

Ready or Ripe? Vegetable harvest from A to Z

Judging when to harvest your vegetables can be tricky and sometimes depends on it’s end use (e.g tender green fresh vs. dry bean). To sort things out, the following is a list of commonly grown vegetables with their ideal harvest characteristics.
Be aware, don’t assume you are safe

Be aware, don’t assume you are safe

Ed, my old neighbour from Saskatchewan, always checks to hear if there has been a recent crime in our neighbourhood. There has been a stabbing, bank robbery and murder in our neighbourhood in the year we have been here.
Block party slated for Sept. 3

Block party slated for Sept. 3

Dear Editor The North Battleford Good Neighbour Network has been hosting the Neighbourhood Wellness Block Party for a number of years.
The 2016 summer of flops at the box office

The 2016 summer of flops at the box office

Last time, I was doing my annual rundown of movies that were the big hits of summer, the top 10 of the domestic box office. Today, I am going to highlight the movies that were the disappointments of 2016 at theatres this summer.
Online shopping tax exemptions penalize Canadian business

Online shopping tax exemptions penalize Canadian business

Calls to increase the duty exemption limit for online shopping would be a disaster
Lack of bias an admission of intellectual poverty

Lack of bias an admission of intellectual poverty

The notion that anyone can be completely unbiased is a benevolent fiction
Ranchers reliable stewards of the grasslands

Ranchers reliable stewards of the grasslands

I took some time off from the newsroom in August. There are many family demands on my time these days, so I didn’t travel anywhere truly exotic. I did, however, take a trip to the Consul area in the Southwest.
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