For everyone who loves to have their coffee in the morning, this is perfect for you! We lead busy lives and not everybody has time to sit down for a full breakfast every day. This is a way to have a healthier breakfast in an easy and fast way. Ingredients: 1 cup coffee, stored overnight so it’s cooled ¼ cup...
Work It Out: 5 Facts about Low Back Pain
If you suffer from chronic pain in your low back, you are not alone. Not by a long shot. Unfortunately, low back pain is widespread, and it’s often hard to figure out why it’s happening or how to feel better. Too many people reflexively turn to medications, surgery or ongoing misery. We know there’s a better way: movement. “Moving is...
New info may light your fire for keeping up an exercise routine
In the best of times, we are a sedentary nation. Around 76 per cent of you don’t meet the minimum (that’s minimum) recommendations for aerobic and strength-building activities, which are at least 150 minutes per week of moderate-intensity aerobic activity and moderate- to high-intensity muscle-strengthening activity at least two days a week. And now that you’re staying home for work...
Real estate investing
Happy Autumn everyone! As I write this article, it is officially the first day of fall. I love fall on the prairies. The mornings are cooler, the leaves are changing and people are cleaning up their yards preparing for the inevitable first snow fall. Last time we were together, we talked about the seven profit centres of real estate and...
Sylvia Fedoruk’s life captured in book
I met Sylvia Fedoruk when I was a child. I was a rink rat at curling clubs in my pre-10 years of age years. She knew my parents, and I would be tagging along at the curling club. My memory isn’t spot on, but she would have acknowledged my tiny presence in some way. I knew she was good at...
New Shakespeare site opens in the time of COVID
The dream began in 2014 and the fundraising campaign followed in 2018. No one could have foreseen that Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan’s (SOTS) new amphitheatre on the riverbank would have opened “dark” in a 2020 pandemic. Two of the bard’s greatest plays, Macbeth and The Tempest, were scheduled for this summer — huge productions perfect for a long-awaited celebration. But...
#SmallBusinessEveryDay
Almost half of Canadians know a business that has closed permanently due to COVID-19, eight out of ten say they wish they could do more. With seven out of ten business owners worried that customers won’t come back and many still struggling to pay bills, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB)’s new #SmallBusinessEveryDay campaign is designed to amplify actions...
Business Spotlight – PetMobile
Going out of your comfort zone Having the trusted brand that you have been using is reassuring and comforting, but it is also nice to try new things. In the case of pet food, PetMobile and Multi Menu can be considered new here in the west but are known and quite popular in the east, especially in the city of...
Do your homework before casting ballot
As a prolific social media user, particularly on Twitter, it’s a bit precious for me to write about how it causes societal divisions, but I’m going to do so anyway. As I write this, we are all staring down the barrel of what might be the most divisive and frightening few weeks in modern history. U.S. president Donald Trump has...
Case can be made for at-large voting system
Well, the race is on and it looks like, ah, hmmm, same old, same old. So far, we have six candidates running for Saskatoon’s top job. Incumbent Mayor Charlie Clark, former mayor Don Atchison, former provincial cabinet minister Rob Norris, and three that are new gladiators in the arena, engineer Zubair Sheikh, consultant Cary Tarasoff and businessman Mark Zielke. With...