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It is this the time of year when we dispense with the lumps of coal we normally hand out to the likes of Premier Brad Wall for his $1.5-billion carbon capture expenditure.

Dear Editor: Response to “Thinking Critically – Vaping: The new face of addiction. Kudos on being able to quit smoking cold turkey, for many of us that is not a reality.

Welcome to Week CLXXXVII of ‘Fishing Parkland Shorelines’. Like most of us I am a novice fisherman, loving to fish, but far from an expert.

It’s kind of become a tradition (can I claim tradition after just three years?) that I do my Top 10 science stories of the year in this column in the Christmas and New Year’s editions.

I will admit, there have been times in my life I have suffered from delusions of grandeur. Granted, it was mainly in my youth, when you’re supposed to have lofty ambitions.

I’m not a huge curling fan, but whenever the world’s best teams assemble in Yorkton, my interest is peaked. I had the opportunity to catch a draw over the weekend and we are lucky to have this in our city.

View from the Cheap Seats is kind of an extension of the newsroom. Whenever our three regular reporters, Calvin Daniels, Thom Barker and Randy Brenzen are in the building together, it is frequently a site of heated debate.

Can you believe it is almost Christmas? We have already passed the shortest day of the year, and up until the snow in the last weeks we have been so blessed with the weather! I have been reading about monarch butterflies. One site, www.

What the world needs now, this exquisitely created, heartbroken and bleeding world, isn’t more Christmas spirit. Not even year-round Christmas traditions could fix us. I enjoy them too, but I’m not fooled.

Over the next two weeks I will reveal my picks for the best albums of 2015. I have to say it was really tough to pick just 10. This year Canadians have experienced more ways than ever before to listen to, download or purchase their favorite music.