Not just big city problems
After over a decade of inflationary Liberal credit card budgets, growth-killing regulations and government waste, Canadians are paying the price.
Just A Gal From Glidden: From the school bus to the warden's office
I'm reminiscing about graduation this week, and a remarkable coincidence was recently brought to my attention by one of our subscribers.
Check It Out: How does the government love taxpayers? Let us count the ways
My parody of the opening lines of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnet reads, “How does the government love taxpayers? Let us count the ways.”
A stronger Alberta within a united Canada
Pierre Poilievre, Leader of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition and the Conservative Party of Canada delivered a major national unity speech calling for a stronger Alberta within a united Canada.
Just A Gal From Glidden: The boy who wanted to know everything
When things slowed down on Friday evening, my mind drifted back to trade shows from years ago. My first was in Shaunavon in 1993, where the local Kinsmen and Kinettes…
Pop 89: Quilt Reading
These nights my sister and I fall asleep listening to the same sublime cd of 17th century lute music played by Jose Miguel Moreno.
Remembering When: Stuff my dad said
My late father was a common-sense country person who grew up on a farm. No one ever had to tell him "where the bear sits," if you know what I mean.
Check It Out: Today’s heroes were yesterday's villains
"Sometimes the people that are cast as villains in the moment end up becoming the heroes in history," MP Andrew Lawton recently said in an online interview.
Just a gal from Glidden: She don’t like Pablo though
Something grabbed my attention this week as I was typing up upcoming community events. The Student Art Show 2026, featuring Grade 5 and 6 students from Kerrobert…
Pop 89: Any ID
As I plop thirty-plus books onto the circulation desk of the Saskatoon Public Library, I realize I don't have my library card. Because when, in the twelve years of living in Val Marie…
Check It Out: My uncle turned tragedy into triumph
I am writing this missive on my birthday, an annual occasion which I celebrate as an excuse to eat too much cake and chocolate. Maybe it's because I'm getting older…
Just A Gal From Glidden: A right turn instead of a left
Every day, I have the pleasure of driving by the Kindersley Regional Park Golf Course on my way to work. I golfed it once, probably in the late 1980s, before I actually knew how to golf.
Pop 89: Adventures in directions
An aide on the neurology ward is holding up a lady diaper. "I've gone from 'I'm a big girl now' to 'I'm an old girl now,'" I say. "Put the long end at the top and the short end at the bottom," she says.
