By: Jordan Twiss Jokes – well, good jokes at any rate – are meant to make us laugh and forget our troubles for at least a little while.

By: Jordan Twiss Saskatchewan’s 30th Legislative Assembly gathered last Monday to begin its post-election session, and already it looks as though the couple weeks leading into the holiday season are going to be as contentious as ever.

By: Jordan Twiss When one reads the word scurvy, one is transported back in time to the age of history’s greatest explorers.

By: Jordan Twiss For the next two months, the United States, and the rest of the world, will be living in the uncertainty that is a Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment – or more accurately a Schrödinger’s president scenario.

By: Jordan Twiss They say when someone shows you who they are, you should believe them.

By: Jordan Twiss In further evidence that 2024 is destined to repeat the greatest political hits of the past few years, the federal carbon tax was making news yet again last week.

By: Jordan Twiss As the provincial election headed into the home stretch last week, the polls were laying out some pretty clear expectations for what the legislature might look like later this fall.

By: Jordan Twiss If you adhere to the Chinese zodiac, then you’ll know 2024 is the Year of the Dragon, the most auspicious and powerful creature in the zodiac.

By: Jordan Twiss In the same way that past behaviour is the best predictor of future behaviour, the best way to guess what a political party might do if it forms government is to examine what it’s done in the past.

By: Jordan Twiss If ever you needed proof that time is a nonsensical, completely made-up construct, consider the following: 10 years ago, to this exact date, my first news articles and first weekly column appeared in the pages of the Shellbrook Chronicle.