Month: <span>October 2020</span>

Toronto (Buffalo) Blue Jays are/were back in the Major League Baseball playoffs for the first time since 2016, but they’re partly obscured because of the gigantic asterisk. The Blue Jays compiled the eighth best record in the American League, but they started on equal footing with 15 other teams in the two leagues. Baseball traditionalists...

For everyone who loves to have their coffee in the morning, this is perfect for you! We lead busy lives and not everybody has time to sit down for a full breakfast every day. This is a way to have a healthier breakfast in an easy and fast way. Ingredients: 1 cup coffee, stored overnight...

If you suffer from chronic pain in your low back, you are not alone. Not by a long shot. Unfortunately, low back pain is widespread, and it’s often hard to figure out why it’s happening or how to feel better. Too many people reflexively turn to medications, surgery or ongoing misery. We know there’s a...

In the best of times, we are a sedentary nation. Around 76 per cent of you don’t meet the minimum (that’s minimum) recommendations for aerobic and strength-building activities, which are at least 150 minutes per week of moderate-intensity aerobic activity and moderate- to high-intensity muscle-strengthening activity at least two days a week. And now that...

Happy Autumn everyone! As I write this article, it is officially the first day of fall. I love fall on the prairies. The mornings are cooler, the leaves are changing and people are cleaning up their yards preparing for the inevitable first snow fall. Last time we were together, we talked about the seven profit...

I met Sylvia Fedoruk when I was a child. I was a rink rat at curling clubs in my pre-10 years of age years. She knew my parents, and I would be tagging along at the curling club. My memory isn’t spot on, but she would have acknowledged my tiny presence in some way. I...

The dream began in 2014 and the fundraising campaign followed in 2018. No one could have foreseen that Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan’s (SOTS) new amphitheatre on the riverbank would have opened “dark” in a 2020 pandemic. Two of the bard’s greatest plays, Macbeth and The Tempest, were scheduled for this summer — huge productions perfect...

Almost half of Canadians know a business that has closed permanently due to COVID-19, eight out of ten say they wish they could do more. With seven out of ten business owners worried that customers won’t come back and many still struggling to pay bills, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB)’s new #SmallBusinessEveryDay campaign...

Going out of your comfort zone Having the trusted brand that you have been using is reassuring and comforting, but it is also nice to try new things. In the case of pet food, PetMobile and Multi Menu can be considered new here in the west but are known and quite popular in the east,...

As a prolific social media user, particularly on Twitter, it’s a bit precious for me to write about how it causes societal divisions, but I’m going to do so anyway. As I write this, we are all staring down the barrel of what might be the most divisive and frightening few weeks in modern history....