Month: <span>February 2021</span>

Let’s cut to the chase: 2020 was a really hard year. You want 2021 to be much, much better. But you cannot depend on external circumstances to create improvements — they might or they might not. What you can control is how you approach your near and dear and how you take steps to improve...

Creative types all over the world have been talking about their muses going missing during the COVID pandemic. Iris Hauser is not among them. Since the lockdown began last March, the Saskatoon painter and art teacher produced 33 canvases by December, not including several more previously begun. These are not small landscapes, still lifes or...

If there is one thing I learned last year, it is how people stepped up to take on a challenge, even if it cost them harm or even death. For the past decade, I have been fighting two deadly diseases — Crohn’s and intestinal cancer. I am winning my battle and was coming along until...

This year’s Scotties Tournament of Hearts and Tim Hortons Brier will be unlike any before them. Curling is moving into a bubble in Calgary. The two national championships will have the largest fields they have ever had, with 18 women’s and 18 men’s teams. It’s Curling Canada’s way to deal with COVID, and to be...

Dave Moore has virtually touched all the bases, everything from working with the youngsters in Squirts softball to Canadian championship tournaments and occasional international flings, in an umpiring career which has extended beyond 6,000 games and is still counting. “I played with some good Saskatchewan teams in softball and baseball but in 1968, I reached...