Opinion

Dear Editor Regarding "The Stories They Tell Us" (Regional Optimist, Jan. 30), thanks for the coverage. Chapel Gallery is a beautiful space, and it is nice when a show is so well attended. I have a correction to make on the article.

Dear Editor Lyle Comstock's letter (Truth from MP would be a change, Regional Optimist Jan. 30) touches on a variety of subjects, but his points are consistently void of reality.

Dear Editor In regards to closing of veterans' service offices, I served in Korea, the Canadian Arctic and NATO Germany and with an airborne regiment (paratrooper) for seven years. While in Col. Belcher Hospital in Calgary, Alta.

Dear Editor With all the recent hype over the STC losing money and the increase in cost of operation, there is now talk of privatization, like privatization is the magic solution to everything.

So last week, the big focus of our paper was on the downtown and people's expectations of it. Everyone's opinion matters, including ours here at the paper, but some of the ideas, well, just aren't that practical.

Last week I wrote about how the 1998 movie Enemy of the State was prophetic in its tale of a nation-state's ability to monitor individual citizens. We get the uneasy feeling we are being watched.

This winter does not seem to want to give up. Every day starts out at 20 below and slowly gets into the teens. At least we have some sun. No hoar frost to mark - cool and dry to the end of July. Ground Hog Day has come and gone.

History and Commentary from a Prairie Perspective

Given all the recent talk about publishing attendance records at City Hall, I should point out there was a noticeable absence of one individual at council chambers during budget deliberations in mid-January.

The popularity of community gardening keeps growing due to a yearning for fresh vegetables or a desire to limit the use of synthetic chemicals in food production. Also, there are people who, because of a change in their circumstances (e.g.