Opinion

I saw them first; explosions of purple and yellow and white.

Dear Editor Last spring, the federal government announced that, after 80 years of successful operation, Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration's Community Pasture Program "has met its objectives" and will be shut down over the next five years.

Ed, my neighbour next door, wanted to borrow my Saturday Leader-Post. He heard there was an obituary in the paper that he needed to see.

Our daughter returned home charged with energy and enthusiasm after attending the We Day event in Saskatoon. She was astounded at some of the alarming new facts learned about global water supplies. Water is needed to sustain life.

Conservative MP Brad Trost and his party are trying to buy your support with advertising paid for with your tax dollars. They're increasing spending on advertising while cutting programs that really matter to Canadians.

A week of nice weather as we are marching toward spring. Well not really marching more like crawling, but a steady crawl nevertheless. With the amount of snow around, just as sure as God made little green apples, there is going to be run off.

It's pretty sad when the visiting team gets more cheers than the hometown boys at a hockey rink in Saskatchewan.

Dear Editor Saskatchewan stands at the precipice of labour instability with the introduction of a sweeping and rushed overhaul of the province's labour laws in Bill 85, the new Saskatchewan Employment Act.

Dear Editor I'm writing this today as I look around what has been my room for the past two years. It looks the same as it did when I came here, no clothes hanging, no mess on the floor, bed made.

In June last year, an automated telescope located in Hawaii, dubbed Pan-STARRS, discovered a faint comet that is expected to reach naked-eye brightness when it nears perihelion in March.