Month: <span>June 2025</span>

Why do people inflict misery upon themselves? By gaining too much weight, people are decreasing their quality of life and dying prematurely. You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to find the clues leading to tragic or mysterious deaths. The evidence is in plain sight. We are a society in which obese people are becoming...

When the Earth was green, someone asked me about my heritage. It was a vague question. I was a kid. “German,” I told this person. Which is, in the main, true in ancestral terms. My father, as it turned out, overheard this miniconversation, and later told me emphatically: “You are not German. You are Canadian.”...

Sometimes, I feel like I am jinxed. Small things don’t work out, and then I panic and things get worse. My wife calls them Cam-isms; many are more like stupid-isms or panic-isms. I had a bunch of these experiences over the past month or two. So, here we go. One day, I decided to get...

The University of Saskatchewan (USask) has appointed Scott Banda as its 17th chancellor, an appointment that was confirmed by University Senate on April 26, 2025. “I am honoured and humbled to be stepping into this role,” said Banda. “It will be a privilege to represent and champion USask.” As chancellor, Banda, who is currently serving...

This will be Joan and Mike Steckhan’s last year of cruising the South Saskatchewan River aboard the Prairie Lily: they have decided to retire. This season, however, has given them the bumpiest ride, business-wise, since they took over the riverboat in 2012. Intending to set sail in early May, they realized immediately that it would...