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It has been an exciting past few weeks in the land of orange. The band had an extra exciting trip to Banff. On their return trip, one of the buses hit the ditch and they were forced to stop their progress and spend the night in the Morse town hall.

I have decided to rebrand the Conservatives' "tough on crime" platform "wrong on crime," or, maybe even better, "dumb on crime." This week, it is the Alberta brand of wrong-headed right-wing thinking that piques my ire.

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

It's not as if Premier Brad Wall does not have a point about the U.S. government's dithering on approving the Keystone XL Pipeline.

"In like a lion, out like a lamb." This old adage about March is so commonplace I must have heard it a hundred times last week.

Even in the world of politics it took a lot of time, but the City of Yorkton now has a Municipal Cultural Plan. At the regular meeting of Yorkton Council Feb.

Murray Mandryk's commentary in the Feb. 26 issue of the Leader Post entitled "Elders vow to oust high paid chief" deserves some comments.

If you are working on your family tree, it is important to know basic information about how genealogy is recorded in the country where you ancestors came from; this will help in your search.

"Hey, kids have you ever tried raw beets?" Six wide eyes, and three disapproving looks followed my hands as I set the small bowl of beet sticks on the table. One mouth howled for them all.