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Darla Lindbjerg: Advocating for Saskatoon’s business community

Darla Lindbjerg, president and CEO of the Greater Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce, has spent the past two and half years leading our city’s Chamber and championing the largest business community in Saskatchewan. The Chamber is an advocate for its members with government at the municipal, provincial and federal levels. This is especially important given that...

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2019 a year of honours for local journalist

Omayra Issa is well-known to television viewers and radio listeners in the province as a bilingual reporter working for Canada’s national broadcaster, CBC/Radio-Canada. What viewers may not be as familiar with is Issa’s long list of accomplishments. Fluent in five languages, she holds a degree in economics and English literature from the University of Alberta....

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Carrot cake cookies can be made for diabetics

Dear Reena, I would like to bake some carrotcake breakfast cookies, and the recipe calls for a half cup of maple syrup. My husband has sugar diabetes, and cannot have maple syrup, so I was wondering what I can use as a substitute. — Annette Dear Annette, According to diabetes.org, real maple syrup in small...

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When art meets science: Research and experimentation key to artist’s colourful work

Saskatoon artist Marie Lannoo is known across Canada and internationally for the innovative, visually stimulating artwork she creates by employing conceptual research and scientific methods of experimentation. In a survey exhibition of her latest work, entitled the architecture of colour, Lannoo explores colour and light through paintings and sculptural installations that are currently on display...

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A letter to my uncle — a war hero

Dear Moosume Alfred: There’s a cenotaph that stands on the land of your Cree nation. On the plaque is a list of names of those who died fighting for the Canadian military. I saw your name along with my last name on the plaque. I have never met you, but I know you are the...

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Remembering Kenneth Scott Ferguson

Eunice Gore-Hickman has a special collection of photographs, cherished possessions from a trip to Holland, and a precious pair of salt and pepper shakers in her home. They are all reminders of her brother Kenneth Scott Ferguson. She was nine years old when Ken enlisted in the Canadian army. Ken, like so many Canadians, lied...

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It’s easy to understand why there is a Wexit movement

My father was a stickler about voting and as each of his children reached the age of majority, he proudly marched us to the polling station. Back in the day there was a blackout on reporting eastern election results until after the polls closed in the western provinces, supposedly so Canadians in the western provinces...