Month: <span>November 2022</span>

(By Cam Hutchinson) A new exclusive online sports betting site is hoping to capture a good-sized portion of the hundreds of millions of dollars that citizens of our province are wagering with off-shore companies. You can say it’s about time. Saskatchewan is the last province in the country to offer online sports wagering. It is...

(By Joanne Paulson) In the third week of October, the Conference Board of Canada forecasted that Saskatoon’s real GDP growth would likely outpace that of all other major Canadian cities in 2022. It predicted a 7.2 per cent GDP increase this year, and 3.9 per cent in 2023. The recent bounce comes after years of...

The Chicago Blackhawks will retire Patrick Kane’s jersey one day, but because professional hockey is a business, he’ll almost certainly be traded away from the Windy City first. Kane remains a superior offensive talent at age 33. The combination of his contract expiring after this season, and the Blackhawks in the midst of a full...

They will never be forgotten

In July 1999, Chris Brady, who lives in the San Francisco area, started NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). The first NaNoWriMo consisted of 20 participants. The next year, the event was moved to November, as the weather in November is much more conducive to writing as opposed to July. Since then, NaNoWriMo has become a...

Nuclear energy has rather caught my attention lately. I’m definitely not alone. This renewed awareness brought a thought as we were driving north recently and, for the 2,000th time, I became hyperaware of the great vastness of this province. We are three times the size of the former West Germany and 2.7 times larger than...

Canada’s current inflation rate is 6.9 per cent, which is mainly due to our pent-up demand for consumer goods and the current global supply chain disruptions; but what about your personal lifestyle inflation rate? Could we have let that get out of control too? Lifestyle inflation is a term used when people of all ages...

We recently returned to our home in Mexico, where we spend a good part of the winter. Over the summer, we had renovations done to our kitchen. Now, it is much more efficient and I really love it, but the kind people who put things back in place had their own idea of organization. I...

I wasn’t one of the cool guys when I was in high school. I don’t recall ever saying, groovy, far out, peace, dig it, out of sight, the fuzz, bread or that’s a downer.You could add the word Man to almost all of these. I didn’t smoke marijuana. One of my friend’s older brother was...