Opinion

So then I get home and find out my favourite baseball team, the Cardinals, are apparently in need of a new starting pitcher.

Saskatchewan's NDP have spoken and they have selected Cam Broten as the man to lead them out of the political wilderness. After a months long race, Broten barely edged out Saskatoon doctor Ryan Meili for the party's leadership.

March 8 is International Women's Day. It turns out the Socialist Party of America was the first to celebrate a national Women's Day in February of 1909. The next year saw an International Women's Conference held in Copenhagen, Denmark.

J.L. Granatstein may be a distinguished research fellow of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, but in his March 4 opinion piece in the National Post, he is just plain wrong.

Marna's Musings

He said, she said

It is the time of year crop price prognosticators spend a lot of their days, and likely a few of their nights, over their crystal balls and Ouija boards trying to get a handle on what prices will do in the coming months.

A couple of weeks ago I had a little rant about healthcare in our area, or lack of it I should say. We received four letters in response, including a response from the Premier's office.

In all the talk about the new Saskatchewan, what sometimes gets lost is that not everything about the old Saskatchewan was bad. There again, perhaps it is time every now and again to refresh old attitudes.

Canadians just aren't allowed to hate on one another anymore. Last week Weyburn's Bill Whatcott was deemed by the Supreme Court of Canada to have violated our country's hate-speech laws.