Opinion

If you work in the newspaper business, it feels like you’re in a convoy of ships, sailing from Halifax to England in 1941, while wolfpacks of German U-boats pick off ships around you. Boom! Another explosion, and another one goes down.

When Dianna Rasing woke up on Nov. 21, 2016, she had no idea that her life was about to change. While swimming laps at the Pam Am pool that morning, she noticed that the left side of her body felt numb.

It’s not surprising that I’ve been humming Away in a Manger these days. After all, it is the Christmas season, but actually I’ve found myself thinking more about wood. Neither humorous nor particularly profound, here are my musings.

I love giving gifts but I do not love feeling overwhelmed by stuff after Christmas or spending exorbitant amounts of money before Christmas.

While drilling down, as it were, on the numbers in the annual Petroleum Services Association of Canada (PSAC) drilling forecast for 2018, one number leapt out at me: zero.

As 2017 comes to a close, it rounds out a year that started very bleakly, and now, going into 2018, is showing promise. Talking to people in the oilpatch in late 2016 and the first few months of 2017 was almost like going to a funeral.

Cheers: Cheers to the Estevan Comprehensive School’s performance of School of Rock. It was a great display of acting and singing. The students and teachers and everyone involved should be very proud.

When I went to New Orleans in 2005 just before Hurricane Katrina struck, my friends were robbed on Bourbon Street. They went down an alley as a shortcut back to the hotel just as the sun was setting, and to their dismay three people robbed them.

The provincial government’s move to introduce ride-sharing services to Saskatchewan will likely be one of the most important measures taken during the fall sitting of the Saskatchewan legislature.

How well a food dish has been prepared and put together is shown in the eating, or as the saying goes, “The proof is in the pudding.