Opinion

Novel coronavirus keeps spreading around the globe. By Feb. 25, the number of confirmed cases got closer to 80,000 with over 77,000 cases in China and the rest affecting people in 28 other countries.

A familiar adage cautions us to never meet our heroes lest we discover they have feet of clay. The danger is that we find out just how ordinary and fallible they might be.

Weyburn Review editorial

My Nikkel's Worth column

In the first two weeks of February, I’ve heard more about the possibility of exporting oil by way of Churchill, Man., than I have in several years.

Ever since SaskPower made the decision to retire Units 4 and 5 at the Boundary Dam Power Station, we knew the day was coming in which there would be job losses at the local mines.

There is a bottom line to the railway blockades and the other illegal protests across the country in support of the Wet’suwet’en fight against the Coastal GasLink project. Illegal protests have to stop.

In the first two weeks of February, I’ve heard more about the possibility of exporting oil by way of Churchill than I have in several years.

The editor: Yes, we are going to lose jobs from the coal mines. Let’s start thinking about nuclear. Everything we need to make Estevan the Energy City again is here. The only thing we are lacking is the method to make steam.

I like the TV show American Pickers, so when I realized that a trip to the Indianapolis 500 was going to take my brother and me right past their shop in Le Claire, Iowa, I had to stop.