Opinion

The Editor: It was my first time at this doctor's office in Estevan and I waited some 40 minutes after my expected appointment time (not unusual but a tad annoying), before I was called.

With the discussions Canadian politicians and business people are having about the Dutch disease, (resources and higher dollar values undermining manufacturing), maybe it's time for Canadians to revive our moribund manufacturing sector with a little

The City of Weyburn has put forward its budget for the 2012, which will have a zero-per-cent increase in property taxes as it's proposed, or a one-per-cent tax increase as some of city council would have it.

We are into the fourth week of May and Estevan Motor Speedway has yet to host its first race night of the season. The track's original opening date of May 5 had already been washed out, postponed over 24 hours in advance due to heavy rainfall.

The idea of agriculture needing to be responsible to nature is hardly a new concept.

Just the other day I came across a letter that was posted on the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) website. It addressed the federal budget cuts concerning the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA) by the Government of Canada.

There must be something in the Guinness in Ireland that produces golf champions at an extraordinary rate.

It's a typical morning. Katrina announces she doesn't want to go to school today. I try not to fight with her, as I have a busy morning.

"When someone tells you that your community isn't big enough or it won't work here, they are almost always wrong." "When someone tells you that it is too expensive or you won't find the money, they are almost always wrong.

Today on GetRealLive Radio (the morning talk-back radio show I co-host), we kicked off our relationship week with a great conversation. We hosted John and Helen Burns who are relationship experts based in Vancouver.