There are people you like, people you love, and those very special that you adore. Jan Shadick definitely falls into the category of people I adore. I will never forget meeting Jan. I was living in Saskatoon and had inquired about volunteering for Living Sky Wildlife Rehabilitation. I was invited to stop by, so I did. Jan took one look...

Dear Grace, you are so right — the cost of groceries has gone up 12.4 percent, according to Stats Canada from January 2022. And with the continued trend that we are to experience a “mild recession” this year, we can expect the costs to rise a little more. Let’s go through five quick tips that will help lower your food...

Step aside, Ernie Richardson. Make room, Kevin Martin. Stand over there, Kevin Koe. Slide to the side, Randy Ferbey. There’s now only one Canadian curling skip with five Brier titles and that is St. John, NL’s Brad Gushue, who claimed the title as the only five-time winner in mid-March by beating Matt Dunstone of Manitoba at the 2023 Brier in...

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 his columns. Ken would be flattered by the kind words readers expressed. We miss him as a friend...

When Nick Taylor of Abbotsford battled Scottie Scheffler down the stretch at the recent Waste Management Phoenix Open, he won $2.2 million and propelled himself into fifth place on the PGA Tour’s money list this year. His dramatic success also moved him into 77th position in the Official Golf World Ranking list, giving Canada an unprecedented five players in the...

By Nicole Goldsworthy, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Humboldt Journal Tim Lockhart has made it his passion to photograph as many prairie grain elevators as he can find. Lockhart was born and raised in Alberta and his dad was a manager at an Old Dutch potato chip plant. When he travelled with his father he gained a passion for grain elevators...

MLA Harrison visits South Korea By Phil Ambroziak Northern Pride First Japan, then Korea. As part of a recent trade mission to southeast Asia, Meadow Lake MLA Jeremy Harrison found himself in South Korea where, last week, the Government of Saskatchewan — via the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC)— and Star Group Ind. Co. Ltd. signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU)...

By Cam Hutchinson It has been a lousy start to the New Year. I wrote more obituaries in January than I did newspaper columns. My father-in-law Des Gore-Hickman died on Jan. 19. He was the third of three family-related deaths during the month. I have been part of the Gore-Hickman clan for almost 50 years. I met his older daughter...

Are you planning to retire this year? If so, you need to make sure you don’t do what 80 percent of Canadians do once they do their “hard-stop” to working. One thing is common amongst almost all new retirees is they all underestimate the amount of funds needed in retirement and all have a profound adjustment during the first year....

I‘ve been thinking about City of Saskatoon policies a lot lately. The green cart program for composting organic waste, for example, which will finally start rolling out (see what I did there?) over the next two months, was a LONG time coming. I recall saving scraps of uncompostable food, paper and other bits while visiting other cities ages ago, and...