Yorkton News Review - Archive

August has been a month in which Yorkton Terriers head coach Trent Cassan's life has gotten significantly busier for the 2014/15 Junior A hockey season.

For once, a sound, sensible political decision, based not on race or religious "rights" but safety and equality has been made.

To the Editor: Imagine if the front page story on the London Guardian, the New York Times and Pravda in Moscow was the same as the Winnipeg Free Press was last Monday.

If you have seen the Saskatchewan Roughriders on offence lately it is hard to imagine that the Grey Cup champs are sitting at 5-2, one game back of the impressive Calgary Stampeders and Edmonton Eskimos.

There is still a good portion of August left and while it may seem like it should all boil down to good old fashioned common sense, there's no harm in reminders.

To the Editor: The Saskatchewan Green Party has learned that the Sunrise Health Region has allegedly aggregated the distribution of prescription drugs through one pharmacy in Yorkton.

I get the idea that we want to be prepared in the event of a real emergency, but spending $10 million just to create a grand fake one? Really? Later this month the federal government is reportedly planning to enact a scene like straight from a movie

Yorkton talents key contributors for Canada at LLWS

To the Editor: The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is unlike anything we have seen since the virus was discovered in the mid-1970s. It has afflicted too many people, and the death toll is climbing.

To the Editor: The big political news this past week was the long awaited verdict in the infamous "robocall" trial of Conservative staffer, Michael Sona.