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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...

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,...

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...

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...

I don’t know how I drummed up the courage to call Doug Wankel in the spring of 1973. I must have been shaking like a teenage boy asking a girl to go on a date. That call, made when I was 18, changed my life, although I didn’t realize it at the time. It struck...

Our neighbours to the south recently celebrated Thanksgiving. Any time we think about gratitude, most people often put their health high on the list.  And not much boosts your health quite like healthy habits — including regularly exercising, eating right, sleeping well, and managing stress. It’s always a good time to express gratitude. And here...

Wanuskewin is delighted to once again announce the birth of a baby bison … three baby bison to be exact. Incredibly, these babies arrived onauspicious days, with the first calf arriving on Earth Day, the thirdarriving on May 5th Red Dress Day, and the last calf arriving on Mother’sDay May 10th. This new generation of...