Opinion

There's no doubt this year that in the National Hockey League, East is least and West is best. A huge discrepancy in win-loss records was starkly apparent when the 30 NHL teams hit the mid-January point.

You never know what is going to inspire you to take an introspective look at the world we're creating for ourselves. Often it's a book or particularly prescient article. Maybe it's a TED talk.

"Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you," were the first words words spoken into a telephone. Alexander Graham Bell is said to have uttered these words to his assistant Thomas A.

Tanya's Tales

Flipping through a few favoured agricultural websites it was interesting to see yet another disease is threatening the Canadian hog sector.

Flipping through a few favoured agricultural websites it was interesting to see yet another disease is threatening the Canadian hog sector.

Reading through any national Canadian news source lately and scrolling through social media, the topic of discussion tends to be on Neil Young and his comments regarding the Alberta oilsands.

Perhaps the time has come for the operators of traditional power sources to take a determined stand against the unrealistic daydreaming proponents of so-called environmentally friendly power sources. The debate is crying for a taste of pragmatism.

I can't help it. I promised not to spout off on politics, especially since I never went to politics school, but these guys just keep on giving, so those of us who enjoy watching their rodeo, have to keep soaking it up for no good reason.

If the guests of honour hadn't already been in Weyburn on Saturday, the Rider Pride Hockey Challenge stop in Estevan very likely would have been cancelled for the second straight year.