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LETTER: This fracking problem

LETTER: This fracking problem

It’s time to clean up this fracking mess. According to a new study out of the five heavily-fracked counties in the northeast part of Pennsylvania (Susquehanna, Bradford, Wyoming, Lycoming and Tioga) the number of deaths from 2003-06 vs.
When a court case makes your kids wonder where they will go to school

When a court case makes your kids wonder where they will go to school

It’s not often a court case has your kid asking you where they’re going to be going to school.
Ten years of writing about the movies

Ten years of writing about the movies

Welcome to the Cairns on Cinema Tenth Anniversary column! Now, those of you out there who can put two and two together are probably going: ‘this makes no sense.
Celebrating spring with the hydrangea

Celebrating spring with the hydrangea

Potted hydrangeas (Hydrangea macrophylla) in blue, pink, mauve, bicolour or white should be available at local florists and retailers now for Easter and later, in greater supply, for Mother’s Day.
Giving students the ability and right to question

Giving students the ability and right to question

I had the honour of attending the Horizon Holocaust Symposium and Amek Adler’s talk about surviving a concentration camp.
Keep making your voices heard

Keep making your voices heard

Last week Becky wrote an editorial talking about how the lack of public feedback at the budget meeting was disappointing and meant you could not complain. Well the same cannot be said about the public hearing for the new waste collection program.
LETTER: Selling off Saskatchewan, bit by bit

LETTER: Selling off Saskatchewan, bit by bit

For sale: the Sask. Transportation Company, the Sask. Grain Car Corporation and the Sask. Pastures Program. All have served the people of this province for decades, especially those who live in rural areas. All were owned by us.
North Stars bring the community together

North Stars bring the community together

My column today is devoted to the one hot topic that everyone in the community is talking about. That topic, of course, is the provincial budget and the impact being felt by people here in the Battlefords.
Liberal Finance Minister Morneau detached from economic reality

Liberal Finance Minister Morneau detached from economic reality

The minister of finance seems worryingly detached from the policies of his ministry, their effect and the state of the economy
Sheer incompetence

Sheer incompetence

Dear Editor How do you define incompetence? Consider this: spend more than $3 million buying buses and upgrading assets for the Saskatchewan Transportation Company in 2016, and then shut it down in 2017. That’s right. The Sask.
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