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When Rocky was born, 9/11 hadn’t even marked its one-year anniversary. I had Rocky before I had a husband. Before I knew the price of a mortgage, kids, or sound mental health. I was 24 when I got Rocky. It was a lifetime ago, but also just yesterday. Rocky was my dog, if that’s not...

As a prolific social media user, particularly on Twitter, it’s a bit precious for me to write about how it causes societal divisions, but I’m going to do so anyway. As I write this, we are all staring down the barrel of what might be the most divisive and frightening few weeks in modern history....

Middle-aged white men need to get over it. Get over themselves, to be specific. That’s right, I said it. You may have noticed a higherpitched hysteria from that group than normal lately. For as much as we like to talk and joke about ‘Karens’ — aka white middle-aged women, usually of a privileged background to...

I’m using this column space for this, because there is just no way to predict if the Saskatchewan Health Region will name your business if it has had a run-in with COVID, whether through an employee testing positive or a customer later receiving a positive diagnosis. The result is thousands of business owners, particularly small...

This month you get two columns for the price of one! Hopefully by the time you’ve read this “Junetember,” as a friend of mine dubbed the chilly weeks that tormented the province last month, is a memory and we’re well into the golden, warm days of July. September feels like a million years away. Except...

“When I start to lose it, put me in a home,” my grandma used to say, laughing in that way you knew was both meant to reassure us and enforce the fact she was serious. So, we did. Well, my mom did. Upon a doctor’s confirmation that she was indeed showing signs of dementia, my...

After writing this column for almost a decade, I’ve tackled many subjects I didn’t ever expect to even contemplate. An economically devastated Saskatchewan, hunkered under lockdown as an unrelenting, vicious virus circles our homes, our families and communities is definitely one of them. Expectations. That is the word that has been running through my mind...

One of the drawbacks of writing a monthly column is that there’s really no way for me to know what the world is going to be like by the time you read this. Something tells me, though, that it’s not going to be much of a nicer place than it is today, and Saskatchewan will...

By the time you read this, hopefully the Co-op Refinery strike in Regina will have been resolved. As I write this at the end of January, it’s not looking fantastic, with both management and workers dug in so deeply in their positions that they’re going to need some seriously heavy equipment to get them out....

A compelling scenario played out in a Swift Current courtroom recently. Roxanne Gordon was sentenced to 16 months in jail after she was convicted of trafficking drugs. The sentence was based on a joint submission made by the Crown and Gordon’s lawyer. The charges stem from a sale of three pills. In March 2018, Gordon...