Opinion

The Editor: My family moved just below Boundary Dam 42 years ago. In the 1970s, flooding was nearly an annual occurrence. Long Creek would come first, then the Souris, about a week later. They always came after the snow was gone.

Dear Estevan, I'm writing to you as a man who grew up there and left in 1998. After a few years of wanderlust I eventually settled in Winnipeg. I had a rare chance to visit you a few weeks ago.

It's a simplistic learning experience, but an important one. Now that mid-block pedestrian crosswalks have been introduced in the central business district of Estevan, the awareness level has to go up for everyone.

Perhaps the greatest influence on farm commodity prices over the past quarter of a century has not been hungry people, or the impact of Mother Nature, but has been the meddling in the market of world governments.

Bar codes here, bar codes there, bar codes everywhere

I'm sitting in the car on a Sunday morning. Actually I'm in Kennedy for day two of the Moose Mountain Rodeo, but I've arrived early and there's nobody in sight yet, except a few teenagers picking up garbage from the night before.

He said The best way to begin tackling this subject should be to decide who currently rules the world. It is probably pretty safe to say that the world of both business and politics is still a boys club.

It's day two of my crash diet and I'm hungry. Which makes sense, considering I've only eaten a cup of peas today and half a bowl of Sacred Heart Soup. And consumed more than a litre of water. I actually got the toaster out this morning out of habit.

My condolences if you are feeling at little election fatigued already. With the provincial election still a good four months away, you may already be fed up with it.

Like a bear over a long winter, the Jets name for the National Hockey League's franchise in Winnipeg spent a long hibernation, beginning in 1995 when the team left for Phoenix and became the Coyotes, and ending in June, when Winnipeg's owners, having