Year: <span>2024</span>

Music may be the world’s greatest medicine. From infants to centenarians, people love music and the way it makes them feel good. In tribute to its universal qualities, Hans Christian Andersen said, “Where words fail, music speaks.” Even without lyrics, songs certainly convey feelings. Among healthy people, researchers have shown that across cultural divides, people...

(Family Features) Understanding and improving cholesterol is important for people of all ages, including children and teens. Maintaining healthy cholesterol levels can help keep your heart healthy and lower your chances of getting heart disease or having a stroke. High cholesterol usually has no symptoms. In fact, about 38 per cent of adults in the...

The same risk factors that contribute to making heart disease the leading cause of death worldwide also impact the rising global prevalence of brain disease, including stroke, Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. The global death rate from Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias is increasing even more than the rate of heart disease death, according to the...

Being accepted within social media confines is extremely important, particularly for young people, as face-to-face communication is rapidly being replaced by texting, posting, messaging, and commenting. What is troubling is it is becoming more common for people to use social media to (ironically) avoid social interactions. Young people today often have difficulty looking you in...

While we have been having an unusually warm start to winter and it is looking like it may be a brown Christmas, we know at some point we are bound to get snow. Snow can bring fun things like skating, building snowmen and skiing, but it also means shovelling. Shovelling snow is a common cause...

I will be very very very happy to see the back of 2023. I think I said the very same thing at the end of 2020. That first COVID-19 year was really tough. But maybe I say this every year. Could be. I’m not the most optimistic human, even (or perhaps especially) when peering at...

Fourteen Saskatchewan lawyers are being recognized with the King’s Counsel (K.C.) designation this year for their contributions to the legal profession and public service across the province. “I am very pleased to designate these distinguished lawyers who work in a broad range of practice areas and have demonstrated notable dedication to their profession and serving...

Poinsettias are truly the “Christmas Plant,” but when Christmas is over, you can keep your poinsettia thriving in its entire holiday splendor for many years to come. Poinsettias are native to Mexico and in their native surroundings are a large, leggy shrub. Therefore, if you intend to keep your poinsettia for years to come, then...

The last time I saw Orville Middleton was at the war museum at the Nutana Legion on Louise Street in Saskatoon. That was in the fall of 2019, a few months before COVID hit. He was there to do an interview for a documentary that was being made on Canadians and Americans fighting side by...

U.S. News announced in late 2023 that Canada is the second-best country in the world, marginally behind Switzerland. This is an American media company, established after the Second World War, known for its rankings of various things like schools, hospitals, and yes, countries. Because they used an index, our primary competitor came in with a...