By: Bruce Penton With the world’s best hockey players returning home from the Milan Olympics this week, the bizarre National Hockey League regular season can continue. Why bizarre? Let us count the ways, via two sections — pleasant surprises and disappointments.
Read MoreFebruary 19, 2026
Chitek Lake enjoys first Métis Festival, Snowmobile Rally
By: Bevra Fee The Chitek Lake Métis Local staged its first ever Winter Festival on Saturday, Feb. 14. With a long list of Métis-influenced traditional winter activities, the organization is hopeful that the festival will be the first of many held in the years to come.
Read MoreTrade talks with U.S. on shaky ground
By: Jordan Twiss At times, as one thinks of the Canada-U.S. relationship in the new context of President Donald Trump’s second term, it’s hard not to feel as if we’ve been transported into a classic mobster film.
Read MoreAg research cuts making less and less sense
By: Calvin Daniels When it comes to agriculture stories which will have a ripple far into the future we might today immediately think of US president Donald Trump.
Read MoreReputations stained, but greatness memories linger
By: Bruce Penton The two most dominating athletes of my lifetime celebrated significant birthdays in the last couple of weeks, which sent me down Sentimental Drive on the way to Nostalgia Avenue.
Read MoreFebruary 12, 2026
Spiritwood High School receives Best Buy grant
By: Jordan Twiss In schools across Saskatchewan, funding limitations often mean teachers and students have to do the best they can with the resources they have available.For Spiritwood High School, this has long been true where technology is concerned.
Read MorePipeline prospects look increasingly murky
By: Jordan Twiss A little more than two months have passed since Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith sat down and signed an MOU that could result in the construction of a new pipeline to Canada’s west coast, and, for all the incessant talk about the prospective project, very little has changed.
Read MoreResearch cuts hurt ag sector, all Canadians
By: Calvin Daniels Efforts to reduce government spending are rarely seen as a bad thing.That is especially true when staff is trimmed as there is a wide-held belief government is over-staffed.
Read More