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It is always reaffirming of how municipal politics work best when you see members of Council having discourse with the public.

For many of us, Labour Day marks the end of summer — a time when kids prepare to return to school, or for one last weekend at the lake and we begin to get ready for the coming fall and winter seasons.

B.C. is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a captive breeding program to protect spotted owls. With an estimated six of the owls left in the wild in Canada, all in B.C., that seems like good news.

When asked what factors in life bring happiness or contentment, people across all demographics put good friends in the top five, yet you'd be hard-pressed to prove it by examining the behavior of most of us.

September is but a few days away, my friends. That’s one of those facts that I can both believe and not believe at the same time.

The federal Liberals released a video ad over the weekend that features fake feminist Justin Trudeau on a transit bus. Fitting as how he has made a living over the last four years of throwing people under them.

By the time you read this we could be in a federal election campaign. This has been the reality for the past month, given the bizarre nature of federal election campaigns that must be a minimum six weeks, but can last more than twice that long.

While it’s not new news, it is still good news, in terms of the City of Yorkton.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is right to suggest the federal government and long-time Liberal MP Ralph Goodale may be playing election politics with the infrastructure money.

The sun has dipped down into the northwest for the evening, leaving behind a gradually disappearing daylight. I can barely hear anything, save for the gentle lapping of the rippled waters and the faint noise of a boat far off in the distance.