Year: <span>2021</span>

It’s an eating plan that switches between fasting and eating, it allows you to control your weight and helps prevent or reverse some disease. Most diets talk about what to eat, but intermittent fasting is about when you eat. You will only eat during a specific time. Fasting for some hours each day can help...

– 31 per cent of adults report that their mental health has deteriorated in the past year. – Almost a third of parents of children younger than 18 have received help from a mental health professional. – 47 per cent of moms who have had children at home for remote learning say their mental health...

What’s happening in the real estate market these days? In Saskatoon, we are still very much in a sellers’ market. Sales were up 108.8 per cent, going from 273 to 570. Inventory in Saskatoon stood at 2.2 months (which is 57.9 per cent below the level last year, and 53.5 per cent below the five-year...

The entire premise of a Secret Garden is to have it hidden to some degree. You want to create an intriguing, memorable feeling about it. I’ve always thought that, if space allows, you should never be able to view an entire yard in one glance. Rather consider having one or two places that you must...

Isolated? Bored? If the walls are moving in on you, maybe it is time to read the handwriting on them. What I am reading on my walls is not nearly as amusing as the messages left on bathroom stalls. We now live in a world where people are not concerned about debt and the impact...

Have you had your first COVID poke? As I write this, it has been two days (well, a bit longer) and I could still just crawl right into bed. I do not say this to frighten anyone away from being vaccinated. NO. But I’ve heard some people saying, “I didn’t feel a thing!” (which I...

I have been vaccinated. It was such a relief after a year of living in uncertainty and, at times, fear. From what I saw on my visit, the Saskatchewan Health Authority has the procedure of getting us vaccinated down to a science. The only hiccup during my visit was being told I put my mask...

The news out of China was worrisome in late 2019. By the last day of December, alarm bells were ringing: a new and frightening disease seemed to be rearing its head. In very early 2020, the world was riveted on a virus that would be named COVID-19 — and no one more so than Volker...

by Fritz Stehwien Published by Landscape Art Publishing Review by Michelle Shaw $29.95 ISBN 9780991964987 Scenic Bridges, the latest release from the Fritz Stehwien Estate, is a delightful visual study of bridges around the world, in particular Saskatoon, and also reveals a gifted artist’s creative development and perspective through the years. Saskatoon is well-known as...

It’s time for another update on the real estate market here in Saskatoon. February was another busy month for real estate in the city and the surrounding area. The total number of sales in Saskatoon were up 230 units in February 2020 to 352 in February 2021, an increase of 53 per cent. New listings...