Opinion

Lately everywhere I look, I see ads for various subscription boxes popping up. The marketing idea is great. You sign up for the subscription and either pay monthly or for the year, and every month a surprise box is delivered to your door.

Say what you will about Kevin O’Leary’s bid for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada, but you can’t deny he made it more interesting.

It was an accidental find, but apparently a beekeeper discovered that a parasitic pest in his hives of bees, a wax worm, which feeds on beeswax, can actually break down plastics.

Mental Health Week is marked each year in the first week of May, and the Weyburn branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association is active with events, starting with the Mayor’s Luncheon, plus a youth theatre play, a book sale in support of CMHA pro

The provincial government has passed Bill 40, which allows the government to sell up to 49 per cent of Crown corporations without triggering a public referendum.

On April 24, Premier Brad Wall posted on Facebook his response to the Court of Queen’s Bench ruling on funding non-Catholic students attending Catholic separate schools, and it was a strong one.

Spring is here. It’s that wonderful time of the year when the grass is turning green, the flowers are blooming, the leafs are appearing on the trees and, best of all, the temperatures are rising.

Cheers: Cheers to the Orpheum Theatre's cleaning staff for turning in a special toy so it could be returned to the owner the next day. This toy was believed to be lost, and the owners are feeling blessed by people doing the right thing.

Is there a simpler fundraiser out there, with a bigger potential windfall, for non-profit organizations than Chase the Ace? You sell people a ticket. A ticket is drawn. The winner pulls a card from a deck.

Seize the day! Take the opportunity before it’s too late! Never get too old to try something new! All great slogans, if you decide to follow their advice. This past week I did.