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Income and earnings are different

Income and earnings are different

The Editor: How much did you earn last year? An article by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation suggested a campaign promise by a NDP leader hopeful to raise top income tax, capital gains, and stock options rates was wrong headed and the candidate shoul
Water creating headaches for Alameda family

Water creating headaches for Alameda family

The Editor: Saskatchewan, we have a problem, and it is water.
Search for doctors should start at home

Search for doctors should start at home

The Editor: It was with interest I read the Estevan Mercury 's article on physician recruitment in Estevan. I applaud the health region's efforts to bring needed physicians to Estevan.
Short changed by population count ... again

Short changed by population count ... again

The problem with Canada's current system of doing population counts remains the same as it was five years ago when the majority of Canadians were expected to self-enumerate rather than be counted by door-to-door canvassers who did the job properly fo
Leave Main Street parking as is

Leave Main Street parking as is

The present system we have in Carlyle works well so why change it? The proposed changes are flawed as you will create a 2 block oval circus of motorists trying to find a parking space on their side so they won't have to lug their goods across 2 lanes
If I were a man I'd eat everything

If I were a man I'd eat everything

I heard a question on the radio last week: if you woke up as a member of the other gender, what would you do? Hearing this, I thought of the old Lindsay Lohan movie, Freaky Friday, in which mother and daughter switch bodies and are forced to live out
With YouTube we've created a second universe

With YouTube we've created a second universe

YouTube is big, and it's well known that nobody likes it more than Canada. As it turns out, it's big in the same way the universe is big: it's unfathomable.
Investment in agriculture a must

Investment in agriculture a must

If there is one thing I have written about before which I see as critical to the future of farming, at least as we know it, it is a public investment in varietal crop development.
Your job may determine your vote

Your job may determine your vote

It was the 2003 election campaign when it really dawned on me that the great voter-divide in Saskatchewan isn't necessarily geographically or even the much-talked-about urban-rural split. It's often based on your occupation.
Public dollars at work

Public dollars at work

If there is one thing I have written about before which I see as critical to the future of farming, at least as we know it, it is a public investment in varietal crop development.