Opinion

Dear Editor The Idle No More movement is trying to save the environment, not corrupt band councils. One of the reasons poverty exists on our reserves is band council misappropriation.

Ed, my neighbour next door, is currently on a crusade to save me from myself. When Ed heard I was taking an online college course that costs good money, he choked on his coffee.

There's a saying that goes, "There are two things you can give your children: one is roots and the other is wings." But for many of us, our roots in this country don't go very deep.

Dear Editor Monsanto is currently attempting to make its Roundup Ready alfalfa the first genetically modified perennial planted in Canada.

I've begun reaming out my office. It's not that there's a lot of trash and I do keep the wastebasket emptied on a regular basis, it's just I find it hard to part with the somewhere around 1,500 articles I've had published.

I am afraid I am going to be a "bad Saskatchewanian" again and ruffle more feathers with more whining about life in general here. You guessed it, my column is about the cold and snowy weather that has made everyone bat crazy.

Watching the news the other day, my wife and I saw a term that isn't very common - yet. It was peta, and no, not the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, but as a prefix - as in one quadrillion of something.

Dear Editor There comes a time when you just have to say what's on your mind, especially when you are not the only one thinking it. Put plainly, I'm having difficulties wrapping my mind around the City of North Battleford's tax increases.

Dear Editor At the 2009 convention of the New Democratic Party of Saskatchewan, at which Dwain Lingenfelter was chosen leader, a resolution was passed by the membership in opposition to further nuclear power development in Saskatchewan. Mr.

Ed, my neighbour next door, popped over to our house at the wrong time last week. When he arrived, there was the smell of burnt rubber in the living room.