Opinion

By Ken Rolheiser

A little more than a year ago, a few people in the community decided to create a tribute to the 21 servicemen killed in the 1946 plane crash that occurred south of Estevan, near the former Estevan Airport site.

As children are back in the classroom as of Tuesday, a prime consideration is safety, both in and out of class, on the playground and on our streets and highways.

You saw it yesterday at your office or wherever you work. Maybe you even said it. People walk in the day after a long weekend all smiley and bubbly asking each other how their long weekends went.

In the aftermath of the Federal Court of Appeal’s horrendous decision to stop work on the Trans Mountain Expansion Project, this is what one pipeliner told me that day: “Eight thousand jobs disappeared this morning, and one of them was mine.

Maxime Bernier’s decision to leave the Conservative Party caucus was inevitable, and it’s not a coincidence that he decided to bail on the party during the party’s annual convention last month.

I do not like funerals. However, as I stood out at the city cemetery this past week, I was reminded that I love what happens around funerals. In short, people slow down and show up.

This week I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about butts. Cigarette butts, that is.

I turn 23 in two weeks, and I’m so excited to finally see what all those Blink 182 songs have always been about. Nobody loves you when you’re 23, or at least that’s what Blink 182 told me growing up.

The provincial government has released new industry standards as part of its Prairie Resilience Climate Change Strategy.