Month: <span>November 2020</span>

If you are like me, this is a very busy time of year. Halloween has come and gone, albeit a little different this year. We now have Remembrance Day coming up quickly, then it is the stretch to Christmas. This is on top of the day-to-day stuff that we all need to take care of....

Fruity Flavoured Dessert (Culinary.net) Comfort food typically calls to mind soups, stews and hearty meals meant to warm you up on a chilly day. However, you can also turn to tasty treats as a way to end a cold day on a hot note. For example, warm fruits baked into a crisp dessert provide an...

Meditation is one of the most popular and effective ways to handle stress. By learning to calm your body and mind, your physical and emotional stress can go away. You will feel better, refreshed and ready to face your daily problems with a healthy attitude. With regular practice, you can experience even greater benefits. Meditation...

Are you getting enough water every day? It’s an important question for everyone, but it’s even more key for older people – and still more relevant for older people who are physically active. The common refrain is usually that people should drink 8 ounces of water 8 times a day. Another common guideline is half...

A WW COVID-19 wellness survey of 1,004 American adults found that 36 per cent of you have added an average of 12.5 pounds since the shutdown began. Another by Nutrisystem found 76 per cent of folks have gained up to 16 pounds. Not iron-clad science, but it seems logical that some folks find staying home...

Jason Aebig has pulled on the CEO’s gloves at the Greater Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce during the most challenging time in living memory. The chamber was founded in 1903, but only the Great Depression and the catastrophic flu pandemic of 1918 come to mind as contenders against COVID-19 for the title of most difficult era....

At just 170 pages, Ruth Chorney’s Conspiracy is on the slim side for a novel, but let me assure you that there’s loads of tantalizing literary meat in the Kelvington, Sask. writer’s latest book, and I devoured the convincing story in one pleasant sitting. Chorney’s already got four children’s books and one other “Deer Creek”...

It stands on the high banks of the lake. The cenotaph has a dozen names on a brass plate — 11 men and one woman. These are people from the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation who gave the ultimate sacrifice during times of war. One of the names on the plate is Albert Noskye, one of...

They’re known as America’s Team. But only because of the existence of the New York Jets and a couple of other bottom feeders in the National Football League, the Dallas Cowboys have barely been able to escape the moniker “America’s Worst Team.” The Cowboys are one of those ‘love-’em-or-hate-’em’ franchises. Baseball has the Yankees. Golf...

COVID-19 is definitely messing with all of us, even if we do not contract the disease. Social distancing, restricted travel, business closures, and so many other things have changed our lives. And then there’s the other, theoretically non-COVID side of health care. At the extreme risk of over-sharing, I’ve been trying to get a tummy...