Opinion

Weyburn This Week editorial

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been intrigued, annoyed, confused, exhilarated, and/or enraged by politics.

It’s one of the red-letter days on the calendar of any hockey fan: the start of the NHL season. Each year fans sit back with baited breath, waiting for their favourite team’s campaign to begin.

Cheers to everyone in southeast Saskatchewan who participated in a Terry Fox Run in September, and raised some much-needed money for the Terry Fox Foundation.

The announcement earlier this week that the Estevan Minor Hockey Association (EMHA) has submitted a bid to bring a boys midget AAA hockey team named the Estevan Bears to this community should receive widespread applause.

Yes, but does Kim like it?

Election time means promises galore, grandiose statements of purpose, mud-slinging at other party leaders, and ridiculous claims of what they will do, or more likely, what disasters will ensue if you vote for the wrong party.

Late September evening. Nights start taking over earlier, and skies, fortified by mercury clouds, turn pitch black by 8 p.m. The rain has settled in and now wraps everything it can reach with its sticky cold nudes.

We now know the six candidates who are vying to be the member of Parliament for Souris-Moose Mountain in the upcoming federal election.

It’s hard to come up with the proper adjective or description for the Green Party of Canada’s energy policy in its platform. Devastating doesn’t come close. Apocalyptic is closer.