Life has a way of throwing you curveballs when you least expect it! There are so many possible responses, some healthy and helpful, while others are not. These are the least helpful: For some this is the most familiar and natural response but the consequences to that are that you close the door on any...
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Carrot Juice
Carrot juice is a perfect way to start your day in a nutritious way. Carrot juice is rich in betacarotene and Vitamin A, just one glass has 80 per cent of your daily recommended intake of Vitamin A. Carrots contain many vitamins and minerals that help to improve your heath. Vitamin K, Vitamin C, Lutein,...
Bright promise for the dark disease of glaucoma
Beware the “silent thief of sight.” Glaucoma sneaks up on people causing irreparable vision loss before diagnosis. Over three million North Americans have glaucoma – about half don’t know it. For society, the economic and social consequences of stolen sight is large. For sufferers, when glaucoma progresses to blindness, it is life changing. But is...
Chief Warrant Officer (Ret’d) Anton “Tony” Pearson
Anton “Tony” Olaf Pearson was born on 8 March 1925 in Melville, Saskatchewan. He enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces on 15 October 1943, and first joined the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps. He said he decided to volunteer before he was conscripted. “I chose volunteering.” Pearson was reassigned to the South Saskatchewan Regiment in September...
A city election primer: also, please vote
Fun fact: You can vote in advance polls Nov. 1-4 in the Saskatoon city election. Funner facts: You can even use a drive through poll (often spelled “drive-thru, but I can’t handle that, even though I can handle “funner” apparently), which was instituted in the last election. Or you could mail in your ballot. Indeed,...
Paramedics still stuck in hospitals
Today, you are going to get a hodge podge of mini-columns at the same low price as always. ***** In the past two years, I have had too many reasons – seven — to visit people in hospitals in Saskatoon. In most cases, they were multiple visits. A year ago, I wrote about the logjam...
Guy Vanderhaeghe reflects on life, literature and history
When Guy Vanderhaeghe published his first work in 1982, he made a dramatic entrance onto the literary stage. Man Descending, a collection of short stories, won the Governor General’s Award for English fiction and subsequently also took the United Kingdom’s Faber Prize. Since then, among many other awards, his historical novel The Englishman’s Boy and...
Ken Noskye’s Memorable Stories: We can find the strength to handle what life brings us
When Ken died in February 2021, we had an outpouring of messages from readers, with many telling us how much his columns meant to them. In light of that, we thought we would go back through our files and re-publish some of them. Ken would be flattered by the kind words readers expressed. We miss...
Skinner finally bound for NHL playoffs
The happiest guy on the eve of the 2024- 25 National Hockey League season might just be Jeff Skinner. Ten times a 20-plus goal scorer (and 30-plus in six of those seasons) while playing for poor teams in Carolina and Buffalo, the Toronto-born left-winger could hardly be blamed for dreaming about an inaugural playoff run...
It’s time to prepare for winter
Autumn is a lovely time of year. The air has a crispness to it and the colours are usually quite spectacular! Our chores in the garden change a little bit as freezing temperatures convince hardy plants, trees and shrubs to rest as winter approaches. Most of us that live in places that have seasonal change...