Opinion

Comedy is contagious yet it’s a very serious business. Making people laugh can mean big bucks for those who do it best. But, there is a dark side to commercial comedy the great unwashed public, don’t get to see. Nor do we want to see it.

The rapid descent of the price of oil in the global marketplace is being marked as a disaster for a host of producers, but is the slide really that difficult to comprehend? It’s not as if it was unexpected.

Countless times I sit at my computer saying, “I will not write about volleyball.” I repeat it over and over as I read through the news.

If you have kids, you probably have one. If you don't, you need to get one. The elf on the shelf. A brilliant idea really. A little toy elf, that parents can buy to act as a sort of nanny-cam for Santa.

: It was November 1998 and my husband and I were in Romania. It had been nine years since the nation had undergone a dramatic and violent revolution.

The celebration of Christmas draws in people from all sorts of situations and groups into parties and suppers of all descriptions throughout the month of December, and leads right into the celebration of New Year’s the week after that.

I’ve always enjoyed the arts. When I was in university I had a friend in the drama program and she had to take in so many theatre productions a year and write on them.

The Editor, The Saskatchewan Green Party applauds a move by the Wall Government to add gender identity protection to the Saskatchewan Human Rights Code. This is an idea that the Saskatchewan Greens have always championed.

The Editor, Statistics Canada’s 2008–2009 Canadian Community Health Survey found that 19 per cent of seniors aged 65 or over felt left out, isolated from others, or that they lacked companionship.

Was it bemusement or befuddlement? I wasn’t sure.