As you go about your daily life, have you noticed that the retail landscape is changing rapidly? So many of the businesses that I frequent have self-serve checkouts.

A youngster was being reprimanded for his behaviour by his dad. “Young man, didn’t you consider the consequences for your actions?” The son responded, “How am I supposed to think about consequences before they happen?”

There were better ways for Premier Scott Moe to make his point about Saskatchewan’s highest-in-the-nation-per-capita greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions than to say: “I don’t care.”

My dad turned 90 on Monday. I pause to absorb that fact because as recently as November, he was in the Kelowna ICU with a severe case of sepsis and my sister called to warn me he might not make it through the night.

Interesting tidbits about the 2022 Major League Baseball season, which got underway April 8, a week later than normal, but early enough to placate hardcore baseball fans and to complete the 162-game regular season.

You never know what will be created when someone is armed with a sewing machine. I remember when my mother would sew everything from curtains to clothing.

After being pushed around by the Yankees, Red Sox and Rays since last winning the American League pennant in 2015, the homer-happy Toronto Blue Jays plan to be the neighbourhood bullies in 2022.

The word refugee first appears in 1680 and is defined as “one who flees to a refuge or shelter or place of safety; one who in times of persecution or political disorder flees to another country for safety…

The list of all the problems the NDP has in rural Saskatchewan is too long for just one column. But its biggest problem boils down to one of credibility — specifically, credibility in accounting for its past and providing solutions for the future.

The question asked was, “How do we know China has free speech?” The answer: “No one says otherwise.”

In 1979, before the Trans Canada Highway was twinned between Medicine Hat and Calgary, we lost my 28-year-old father in a horrid car accident caused by a drunk driver, I was 7 at the time.

Saskatchewan’s most recent budget has quickly become a reminder of a long-standing, hard-to-accept reality for this province: We are not as well off as Alberta.

Last night we had our first community supper in two years. For twenty bucks you got a slab of roasted ham, a scoop of scalloped potatoes, fresh peas from the Hutterites, coleslaw and a slice of pie or a brownie.

Before presenting the financial statement to his boss, the office manager asked, “Before I continue, you’re not one of those guys who blames the messenger for bad news, are you?”

Suffice to say, the past two years of an economic downturn driven by the pandemic and accompanied by last year’s drought that saw a 47-per-cent drop in crop production last year have not been the best of years.

We all have the earth in common. The land called the settlers to her, away from the noisy industrialized cities, writes Sheri Mitchell in Sacred Instructions.

Recently the newly installed security system at the Martensville Veterinary Hospital kept sounding a false alarm. The culprit was their feisty resident cat, who had been triggering the alarm…

Saskatchewan’s population growth may be stagnating, but the province’s problems surely aren’t.

I am looking forward to driving to Eastend on the 23rd to read to you. I am sure many of you are like me in that there is nothing more comforting than getting together to tell and hear stories.

Q: What are the similarities and differences between the Canadian and Chinese Constitution? A: Both have freedom of speech, but only one has freedom after speech.