Opinion

Gardeners have an enormous appreciation for variegated foliage - leaves that contain white, cream, pink, yellow or purple in addition to the "normal" green.

Ed, my neighbour next door, has been moving at tornado speed to get his combining done. At harvest time, he claims farmers do the speeding bullet thing because no one can afford to be a slowpoke.

Getting closer and closer to that time of year, people are remembering many of the things they are thankful for.

Aaaah, another day closer to Christmas, I guess! Hard killing frost last night! I think my green feed patches are done. They have had an amazing run, but I think last night was the end of them. We have had non-combining weather for most of the week.

Dear Editor The price of a university education in Saskatchewan jumped more than anywhere else in Canada for this school year, and students in Saskatchewan's universities now pay the second-highest tuition in the country.

Dear Editor I watched Premier Wall's recent speech as he opened the carbon capture and storage facility for a small portion of the Boundary Dam coal-fired electricity plant.

Some people get lost in a book. I get lost in Google Earth. And then Google Street View, and FlightAware.com and MarineTraffic.com.

The nature of the Internet is that everything should be taken with a grain of salt. Fairly recently, people on my Facebook were reporting that Morgan Freeman had died. A quick Google search revealed that this was not the case.

Dear Editor The system for federal elections in the U.S. is a lot different than what the Canadian system was set up to be.

The Internet. Tabloids. Social media. All these channels and more are becoming a huge dilemma for the ignorant masses. Nowadays, it's ridiculously easy for a rumour to start and spread like wildfire.