Opinion

Dear Editor The Battlefords Agricultural Society and their volunteers must be commended for their hard work and for everything they do for this community and surrounding area.

Canada is an urban nation with over 80 per cent of its population living in cities or towns. At the dawn of Confederation, the urban rural split was exactly the opposite, with just over 80 per cent of the population in rural areas.

"You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

Dear Editor With the latest proven illegal moves to fraudulently limit voter participation in Guelph, Ont.

Like many other people lately, I was talking to a couple friends about the recent death of Robin Williams. Unsurprisingly, the sad irony of the situation was not lost on us.

Another week and another week of hot weather. My sympathies to those poor flag girls on Waseca grid north who must stand out in the sun all day long from 6:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. I know I could not do it.

In the wake of the Lac-Mégantic oil-by-rail disaster, when a train carrying crude oil from North Dakota's Bakken field exploded in Quebec, some people began to characterize Bakken crude oil as "uniquely flammable," implicating that new rail car stand

American poet John Greenleaf Whittier once wrote, "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been!'" He wrote it but I've sure been thinking about it a lot.

Statistics Canada's latest tabulation of incomes by city confirms in hard data what we often discern through casual observation: we live in an economically diverse country, one in which incomes vary greatly among households but also across communitie

This week I'm on vacation, spending time with my brother on Vancouver Island in Sidney, just north of Victoria. Of course I'm doing more than looking at gardens (e.g.