Opinion

History and Commentary from a Prairie Perspective

For years we've heard how the Internet will shake up education with online learning. For a long time it was nothing but blah, blah blah, whatever. Instead of reading a textbook, you were reading it on your screen.

Last evening I attended our chamber of commerce Horizon Business Awards event. Since we don't have many dress up affairs in this very casual, coastal community, I look forward to bringing one of my two fancy outfits from the closet.

Dear Editor Jan. 30, I was involved in a vehicle accident on 100th Street. It was serious enough we thought the two cars involved were going to be totalled.

Walking in the vineyards on the steep banks of the Mosel River in southwestern Germany, I wondered how anyone maintains or harvests, or does anything, on these slopes without mountain goat hoofs or ropes. And the "soil" is metres of coarse shale.

Floriography, or the language of flower, is a way of sending coded messages, especially with emotionally laden content, using different flowers and combinations of flowers.

This winter is just hanging on, hanging on! Just like when you get blue burs on your pants or socks. Always there, always annoying. Most of the time the weather is working off 20 below.

Dear Editor With recent suicides of Canadian military people, and 2014 being the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War and the 70th anniversary of Canadian's D Day landing, if ever there was a time the Harper government should be

Dear Editor As much as it might seem that change is the only constant in the realm of Pre-kindergarten to Grade 12 education in Saskatchewan these days, the one enduring component is the historic, albeit evolving, relationship between teachers and th

Ed, my neighbour next door, has a few subjects that you dare not mention or he will talk both of your ears off. One subject I have made every effort possible to avoid is the topic of gun control.