Opinion

There are times when my dear Saskatchewan is ridiculed for being backwards or too conservative.

It's been almost two years since Brene Brown delivered her YouTube sensation TED talk about being vulnerable. She related how for humans, our core need and desire is security, and to do that, we have to be open and vulnerable with one another.

Dear Editor Monday, Environment Minister Peter Kent explained to reporters "that climate change is a very real and present danger and we need to address it".

Dear Editor What would you sell to save the life of a loved one? Everything? So would the African grandmothers to save the lives of their children and grandchildren.

Ed, my neighbour next door, just had to say, "I told you that you should shovel driveways this winter for pay." He was all smiles yesterday as he cleared the 30 centimetres of snowfall from his drive with his new snowblower.

There's no denying that no matter how much we enjoy sports - playing and watching - life anywhere is further enriched by the presence of a strong arts community. We have one of those in Humboldt.

If you're like me, there's nothing that enhances a purchase like getting it at a rock bottom price.

I have grown to love and, as I type this, occasionally hate couriers. This time of year tends to be busy for me and the couriers. I do a fair bit of online shopping for Christmas.

In order to do research for a few stories recently, I found myself leafing through old copies of the Battlefords News-Optimist, specifically, the 1943 pages of the "Battlefords Daily News," as it was then called.

I was recently contacted by a man with an interesting hobby. Dave Thomson has made it one of his goals in life to repatriate old war medals, or return them to their families.