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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...

As the son of caring and sharing parents, Mike Stensrud believed it was inevitable that he’d be called to follow in their philanthropic footsteps. His parents, Howard and Rita Stensrud, were among Saskatoon’s great champions for those with intellectual disabilities. They attended an early meeting of what was then known as theSaskatoon Association for the...

What we’re doing isn’t working, my friends. I don’t know how to put it any more simply than that. If you’ve learned one thing over the past few years, it’s that Saskatchewan’s economy needs the rest of Canada on its side for it to not only survive but thrive. We’ve had that message beaten into...

Fifty years ago, back in 1969, six hungry men in Saskatoon were served bowls of soup. Those simple meals marked the beginning of the Saskatoon Friendship Inn, an iconic local institution that provides food and friendship to people in our community 365 days a year. No one is turned away from the Friendship Inn, which...

It is nice to see the city has started the process to pick a location for a new arena. First up is a location in Riversdale, south of the farmers’ market. While aesthetically pleasing, the site is the wrong one. Among other things, it is too far from the heart of downtown, especially given our...

There’s a gravel road about the length of a football field that runs in front of my place. Along one side of the road is a row of houses. Across the road are evergreen spruce trees. Some of the trees are more than 100 feet tall. If the wind is strong enough, the trees appear...

A tweet from the Regina Police Service: “A female on the phone while driving looked at me and gave me the finger. When I pulled her over, I told her it is not wise to give people the finger like that, and she told me I shouldn’t have been staring. I told her she shouldn’t...

BOOK EXCERPT: Al Anderson, a man on many missions in life, is a good storyteller. He shares many of them with long-time Saskatoon journalist, Ned Powers, in a book entitled Al Anderson Reflections: A Saskatoon Story, which will be released Nov. 1 at 7:30 p.m. at McNally Robinson Booksellers. With a passion for basketball, Anderson...

A kitchen serves as command-central of most homes, so it’s also one of the first rooms homeowners choose when it’s time to make upgrades. When approaching your kitchen remodel, it’s important to keep your family’s lifestyle at the forefront of your planning to create a space that fits the way you like to live. •...

Fat loss after 50 seems hard to most people. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t keep a healthy weight through exercise and eating right. Two-thirds of Americans are overweight, statistics show. And numbers are similar in other English-speaking countries. Our metabolisms slow down as we get older. But obesity isn’t caused by reaching a certain...