Opinion

A few years ago I wrote about how the Hubble Space Telescope had discovered so many galaxies, there was surely enough to name just one after little old me. So far, no one has emailed me the co-ordinates to the Zinchuk galaxy. I'm still waiting.

Well, the hype of the season is past and the reality of another year faces us. After typing and deleting a dozen or so sentences exhorting myself and you, my readers, to look back over 2012, I eliminated them all.

Dear Editor Shocking is the fact that Brian Zinchuk, in his position with a newspaper, would publish his daughter's grammatical errors for the public to read.

The dawn of a new year is the usual time for newspapers to run year-end reviews and the usual lists by editors of the top stories of the year gone by. I've written up more than my fair share of such stories lately.

Welcome to my annual Box Office Year in Review, where I review the domestic grosses of the movies that made it into theatres across North America. It was a year in which tragic events in the United States overshadowed the box office.

Dear Editor The Saskatchewan government has done the math and determined that 950 hours of instructional time is better than 197 days.

Dear Editor In 2013, there are a number of events scheduled in North Battleford that celebrate 100 years of colonialism and consequently promotes the historical erasure of the ongoing genocide that is taking place in our community.

'Twas the month after Christmas, and all through the house, nothing would fit me, not even a blouse; The cookies I'd nibbled, the eggnog I had to taste, at the holiday parties had gone to my waist; When I got on the scales there arose such a number!

Dear Editor The federal government is in the process of washing their hands of PFRA community pastures.

Ed, my neighbour next door, claims we should refuse to change years. "Why not just stick with the same year each Jan. 1? There is no reason we couldn't do the same year over and over," Ed insists.