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Cheap (home) seats are the best seats

Cheap (home) seats are the best seats

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.
The erosion of freedom of speech

The erosion of freedom of speech

Last week, Dean Del Mastro, former parliamentary secretary to Stephen Harper, did something that has become almost unthinkable for Conservative MPs, government employees and, well, pretty much everybody with the possible exception of media op/ed peop
Blossoms and more

Blossoms and more

Did you know that Chinese New Year is also known as "Spring Festival"? How nice to focus on something that lifts us out of winter! Chinese New Year falls on Friday, January 31 this year, and is the year of the horse.
Rail versus pipeline

Rail versus pipeline

Debating the best way to do something we shouldn't be doing in the first place is a sure way to end up in the wrong place. That's what's happening with the "rail versus pipeline" discussion.
EDITORIAL - Creating a foundation for business

EDITORIAL - Creating a foundation for business

Yorkton is at the hub of Saskatchewan's third largest trading area. That is an often referred to factoid, and one we as a community cannot lose sight of.
Soap and games and fishing reads

Soap and games and fishing reads

Welcome to Week LXXXIX of 'Fishing Parkland Shorelines'. Like most of us I am a novice fisherman, loving to fish, but far from an expert.
EDITORIAL CARTOON

EDITORIAL CARTOON

Yorkton's past notoriously intriguing

Yorkton's past notoriously intriguing

This week, I wrote about a Crown appeal in what prosecutors called the "biggest drug trafficking case in Saskatchewan history and one of the most significant in national history.
End of board hasn't ended ag woes

End of board hasn't ended ag woes

After the long and bitter fight over ending the Canadian Wheat Board's monopoly as a single-desk seller, a gleeful Saskatchewan Party MLA was waxing on this spring about how a big impediment to modern-day farming had been eliminated.
EDITORIAL - A reminder to butt out

EDITORIAL - A reminder to butt out

It surprises that here we are in 2014 and we are still having to promote the idea of not smoking.
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