Yorkton News Review - Archive

To the Editor: Farmers are burnt out by excessive government regulations, confusing forms and bad customer service.

To the Editor: After governments abandon fiscal prudence, they will soon search for any and all ways to tax people more. This is the reality playing out in Alberta, where Premier Jim Prentice has floated multiple tax increase trial balloons.

To the Editor: Over the past few years the pigeon population has soared and as a result created a major issue for sidewalks, roofs of buildings, even homes in the city.

As you make annual cropping decisions on your farm, you are confronted with volatility in commodity prices and farm input expenses. A key piece of knowledge in your cropping decision is your cost of production.

Heart transplant recipient Cheryl Olson calls her organ donor her heart hero. “She saved my life, so she’s my hero,” Olson said about the woman who made possible her heart transplant in 2008.

The Nature Conser­vancy of Canada (NCC) in Saskatchewan and Lone Tree community pasture shareholders have signed a pilot partnership agreement to work together to develop a guide for future management and long term conservation of community pastures.

The search for the next President and Chief Executive Officer of Parkland College is expanding.

Ed, my neighbor next door, has dismissed the idea of going to Mexico, Arizona or any of the other winter holiday destinations. My neighbor after extensive snooping into travel prices has concluded that this is a year that everyone should stay home.

Seventy years ago, on January 27, 1945, Allied troops liberated the largest of the Nazi death camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau, witnessing firsthand the horrors of the Nazi regime’s brutal inhumanity.

Canada’s Red Tape Report, issued on day three of Red Tape Awareness WeekTM, revealed that the total cost of regulation to Canadian businesses has grown to $37.1 billion, up from $31.7 billion in 2012.