Month: <span>May 2023</span>

Recently, Meadow Lake MLA and immigration and career training minister Jeremy Harrison announced changes to The Employment Program Regulations, bolstering Saskatchewan’s recruitment of internationally educated workers. This is another step in the government’s plan to reduce the red tape and regulatory burdens associated with the assessment of credentials in regulated occupations. The new International Credential...

Last week the focus of the column was sharing basic knowledge about apples that we can grow on the prairies, and that when the fruit is pollinated, there is much genetic diversity. Apples are also classified by other criteria as well. The size of the fruit will classify whether the apple tree is a crab...

Luis Arraez may be the best hitter hardly anyone in North America knows about. His middle name is Sangel, but it may as well be Anonymous. Avid baseball fans surely know about Arraez, because he won the American League batting championship last year with Minnesota Twins. In the off-season, he was traded to Miami Marlins,...

Dear Liz, I think you are the perfect age for a career change! “It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot Liz, there are many examples of successful entrepreneurs in their 50s, myself included. Many 50+ small business owners have traded in retirement for entrepreneurship built on great ideas...

Macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness, affecting 2.5 million Canadians; 180,000 with significant vision loss. There are two basic types of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) — dry and wet. Dry AMD affects 80-90 percent of those with AMD. Drusen is a protein that gets deposited in the macula, impairing the nutrient transport to...

On April 11, the leader of Canada’s official opposition asked the confused American social media platform Twitter to label the CBC, our country’s public broadcaster, “government-funded media.” Pierre Poilievre then wrote in his tweet featuring his letter, “We must protect Canadians against disinformation and manipulation by state media.” Twitter’s Elon Musk naturally complied, having also...

When Ken died in February 2021, we had an outpouring of messages from readers, with many telling us how much his columns meant to them. In light of that, we thought we would go back through our files and re-publish some of his columns. Ken would be flattered by the kind words readers expressed. We...

On the bright side, Saskatoon will again be a festival city this summer. Most big events are back in action and in person, demonstrating a relative return to normal. However, the effects of the COVID pandemic still linger — and they are largely financial. The SaskTel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival, for example, is altering its model...