Opinion

It's Sunday morning, and I'm sitting at Carpenter's Inn, Wawota. I'm sipping on the coffee and writing articles. Across at another table, a group of people are discussing the Rider game that took place in Regina yesterday.

Even though the writ has not been dropped yet, Crown corporations and other agencies that have anything to do with the provincial government have been pulling away from anything that resembles public exposure lately.

Sportsnet's Jeff Marek joked on Twitter Monday that Brendan Shanahan could get more air time this season than Vince from the Slap Chop commercial. Heck, at this rate, he could get more air time than Jay Onrait. That's a scary thought.

Green seems to be a favourite colour for many people these days, in that it represents the environment, and a concern for preserving it and taking care of it.

I knew it. I just knew it. I could never prove it and of course, as with most things that bug me, the subject matter wasn't important enough to pursue with hours of research. But now I have facts.

It's tough to pinpoint exactly when theNDP and rural Saskatchewan parted ways. Some suggest it was a gradual process that had much to do with economic transformation.

Really, can one man make this much of a difference? It's a rhetorical question, it seems, because the results are staring us right in the face.

ublic travel spending is once again under scrutiny. This time it's General Walter Natynczyk, the country's Chief of Defence Staff. The general racked up about $1 million of travel on the public dime.

In a few days the writ will be dropped and Saskatchewan voters will be heading to the polls. This is no surprise, because the Nov. 7 election was called the day after the last provincial election four years ago.

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