Year: <span>2024</span>

March is here and this month marks the two-year anniversary of the start of the Coronavirus pandemic. It’s been a cold, icy winter and many of us still aren’t venturing too far from home. Are you grumpy about those things? Are you a Debbie Downer? Or are you looking for silver linings and humming “Don’t...

How many readers still neglect to reduce their risk of heart attack? Can’t cut the sugar and salt? Still addicted to tobacco? Must have those harmful fatty foods, and moderate exercise is just too tough? This column has been like a broken record repeating the same song for years. “If you keep going to hell,...

The Government of Saskatchewan is providing one-time emergency funding of $200,000 to the Regina Symphony Orchestra (RSO). The organization is facing financial challenges that threaten its future and this investment will help the RSO avoid insolvency and work toward financial stability. A staple of Regina’s arts community for more than a century, the RSO has...

According to Statistics Canada, Saskatchewan continues to see remarkable growth with housing starts increasing by 62.1 per cent over the last year. Saskatchewan also saw impressive figures in building construction investment as the province is third in the nation from December 2023, compared to December 2022. “This growth does not just happen on its own,”...

The City of Saskatoon has teamed up with the federal government to spend up to $100,000 to pay consultants to promote biking in the city, according to documents obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF). “Saskatoon residents don’t need the city to spend $100,000 to help them decide if they want to ride a bike,”...

Most Canadians are ill-prepared to deal with bites/ stings in tropical climates. Here are the three most common. SCORPIONS There are 1,600 species of scorpions which all have a poisonous stinger at the back of their bodies and two grasping pincers at the front. Most are about 2.5 cm long. They are found in deserts,...

In June 2021, a house on Clarence Avenue exploded. It turned out to be a terrible personal tragedy as opposed to an infrastructure failure, but I didn’t know that yet when I drove over there to check it out the next morning. I had wondered about the cause (failed gas line? Inspection issue? Shifting ground?...

For those of us who like to garden, we get pleasure from gardening, as well as the bonus of great homegrown food. Growing your own food in any capacity is getting more important with each day that passes. The United Nations Food Systems Summit in 2021 entered into the Decade of Action to achieve the...

The news keeps getting worse and worse for those of us that have been loyal CTV Saskatoon viewers for years. We could watch “our people” morning, noon and night. On Feb. 8, Bell Canada announced it was eliminating 4,800 jobs in the country. Bell Media is a piece of that pie, with a teeny-weeny piece...

A City of Saskatoon committee advanced the future expansion of TCU Place by deciding to purchase the YMCA building for just over $8.5 million at a mid-February meeting largely dedicated to the downtown event and entertainment district (DEED) project. Mayor Charlie Clark, after some discussion around the price, said he was confident the agreement with...