Opinion

Well friends, I've just read an article that says Western Canadians can expect one of the top three coldest winters in the last 20 years.

If there is one thing most of us in Canada, and most of the industrialized world, take for granted, it's our food.

For an election that didn't look like it would provide much for rural Saskatchewan, there have been a surprising amount of goodies.

A friend of mine recently brought to my attention an article she read in the Calgary Herald newspaper. The article was about women inmates being allowed to raise their babies in prison for up to four years.

So how many of us are still on the Good Ship Roughrider? Oh, you've jumped overboard, have you? Can't really blame you. In my case I have no alternative.

Everywhere you turned on the weekend, no matter if it was someone from Regina, Edmonton or La Ronge, they all raved about Spectra Place.

We have many reasons to be proud of our city and we can add the events of this past weekend to the ever-growing list.

There was a time I thought the Roughriders would never make the playoffs. It began in 1999, my first season as voice of the Riders, and continued through the 2001 season, a period of three years.

It has been 44 years since the National Hockey League went Hollywood with its first expansion in 1967, but Los Angeles has yet to celebrate a Stanley Cup victory. That's about to change. This is the Kings' year.

On Oct. 7, the Globe and Mail carried yet another story about the supposed overuse of Canada's executive government aircraft. It's enough to make my skin crawl.