Opinion

When I go home I usually like to bug my mother, "Mom. Mom. Mommy. Mommy. Mom. Mama. Ma. Ma." Sometimes she'll tell me to go away and that she's had a long day, but mostly she humours me.

I'm generally fairly observant and after several weeks (or months) of weather that has fluctuated between nice and not-so-nice, I feel comfortable saying that it feels like summer.

For the third straight year, the Edmonton Oilers have an envious decision to make: Which of the ultra-talented junior players coming into this year's draft will they anoint as the No.

He said Last week a student in a Nova Scotia was suspended because he wore a shirt that read, "A life is wasted without Jesus." This incident set off something of a firestorm across comment sections, inciting some hot feelings.

Although it's less than five years, there's something about today's Saskatchewan that makes it feels that it's eons since the provincial NDP ran the province.

When I first started having babies (some 14 years ago), many people told me to savour the moments and to make sure I enjoyed my children when they were young. They told me that time flies by so quickly.

Mother's Day is coming up, and I now have a good reason to fret over it. It's something I've never done before. I'm not the kind of person who worries about these special days. Christmas never stresses me out.

Marna's Musings

The federal government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, is an increasing mystery in terms of how it deals with agriculture.

As Mother's Day approaches, I am sitting here trying to think of how to describe everything my mother and grand-mothers have done for me. As a kid I was always a momma's girl, and to this day I still am.