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Having earned only $400 for one professional concert as a pianist, Janina Fialkowska decided in 1974 that she was going to enter law school at the University of Montreal. But then an amazing series of events occurred, most involving concert piano giant Arthur Rubinstein. Through him, Fialkowska was able to re-ignite her love of music,...

Dave Moore has virtually touched all the bases, everything from working with the youngsters in Squirts softball to Canadian championship tournaments and occasional international flings, in an umpiring career which has extended beyond 6,000 games and is still counting. “I played with some good Saskatchewan teams in softball and baseball but in 1968, I reached...

Concert promoter Brian Edwards knew by March 2020 that his travelling days were going to be reduced dramatically. “I had a pop music tribute group on the road, I had Charley Pride ready to start a Canadian tour and all of a sudden, our plans were turned upside down (by the pandemic),” said Edwards from...

Emile Francis once shared the thought that during the years from 1948 into the 1960s, “it was the best baseball they ever had on the Canadian Prairies. Major league scouts often told us we were playing the equivalent of what was Double-A in the United States.” Francis knew. He played and managed the North Battleford...

I was rummaging through a number of stacks of books one day last week. I figured I had watched too much television and hadn’t done enough reading during my time in isolation. There were sports books spread over two stacks. Many of them are oldies like a biography of Foster Hewitt, a pioneer in hockey...

Shame on us — at least to a small degree.At a recent Davidson town council meeting, an RCMP officer presented crime stats for 2019. We are the culprits. I have been covering Davidson council meetings as a freelance writer for the Davidson Leader. I have never covered a Saskatoon city council meeting, but have watched...

Chances are that few, if any, observers at the1957 Memorial Cup finals would have predicted that Scotty Bowman, then the assistant coach of the participating Ottawa Canadiens, would someday become the winningest coach in Stanley Cup history. Bowman achieved that honour by winning five Stanley Cups with the Montreal Canadiens, one with the Pittsburgh Penguins...

Lisa Thomaidis is so passionate about basketball that, since 2013, she has been juggling two of the best women’s basketball coaching positions in Canada and enjoying every moment of both. Thomaidis became the face of the University of Saskatchewan women’s program in 1998. She has guided the Huskies to six Canada West championships, taken her...