Well it all comes down to this. The 2011 CFL season has come down to a one game showdown for all the marbles between the BC Lions and Winnipeg Blue Bombers this Sunday at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver. It’s the way it should be, really. Both teams finished atop their respective divisions and now, [...]

The number of people looking for work is going down and the number of people with a job is going up. That`s a recipe for tough times for employers. Most businesspeople I talk to these days are complaining that they have jobs open but can`t find people to fill them. When they run an ad [...]

At Premier Brad Wall’s first caucus meeting with his massive 49-member Sask. Party majority, he emphasized the need for humility. This should not be surprising. Wall has – at least to date – remained humble. He is also very politically smart. Even if it were not already his natural inclination to stay humble, he would [...]

The outlook for the agriculture sector has probably never been better. Strong global demand is pushing up prices in the face of a declining land base as well as a world population that has now topped 7 billion. Actually the sector has been riding a positive wave for the last five years but here’s the [...]

The Canadian Football League is down to its final four in the running for the 2011 Grey Cup but the Saskatchewan Roughriders got a headstart on all of them in the news this past week. While the Blue Bombers, Tiger-Cats, Lions and Eskimos all battle for the right to play in the CFL title game [...]

Once again the sentencing circle concept has been brought to the forefront as another high profile defendant has requested one after pleading guilty to a serious crime. Charissma DeeDee McDonald requested a sentencing circle after pleading guilty to a charge of criminal negligence causing death stemming from the death of her daughter Shatoya Cheyenne Chatelaine [...]

Mike McEwen has been making a mockery of the men’s world curling scene this season, but the 31-year-old Manitoban, whose trophy case is filled to overflowing, has yet to win Canada’s most cherished curling prize: The Brier. In fact, the closest McEwen has even got to the Brier has been watching it on TV. That [...]

It turns out the polls were right.  Throughout the election campaign the prospects for the Brad Wall Saskatchewan Party were consistently tracking higher, causing long-time observers to question the validity of the polling. After all, no one had ever generated support in excess of 65 per cent so it seemed like there was something wrong [...]

By the time you read this, the Saskatchewan election campaign will be over, which is a problem for those of us who still practice the black art of writing political columns in advance. As of the writing of this column I don’t know the results of the Nov. 7 vote _ although, the outcome of [...]

A recent conversation has lead me to think somewhat differently about healthcare in rural Saskatchewan. Out in the “country” we seem to be on a wheel where at any given time we are desperate for something. At one time we were clamoring for registered nurses because there simply weren’t enough to go around. The focus [...]