My Prairie Gazette

It’s a challenging task to read the newspapers in the morning. When opposing views are quoted from some political players, you start to question their sanity. Or, being more indulgent, their debating skills.

Take this example.
A fact: our farmers have to sell their grain to the Canadian Wheat Board. (Good or …

If all our correspondence and communication happens in the cyber space - what will be in the “paper archives” for the historians of the coming centuries? Interesting question.

There is a classification when it comes to art - naïve art. As another definiton goes: Naïve art refers to the work done by an artist who was not trained in an academy or other traditional manner of art education. It is characterized by an unusual approach to the …

When I watch the debate about the “universal” versus private health care I get goose bump. Because most of the time it’s not about the patients, the people, the misera plebs contribuens but the ideology. More exactly a Communist-like ideology. I am afraid all these pinkish salon-Communists, left leaning defenders …

Forget the Christmas fever and all the PC madness around the “holiday trees”. Forget the usual end-of-the-year topics and discussions. We are going to have a winter election in January. The campaign has been started even before the official launch of the election season.

The good news: parties and candidates are not likely to go door to door. Who the heck would stand in the door at minus 20 and chat with a wannabe MP?
The bad news: they will probably focus on phone soliciting, so say good bye to the quiet evening hours spent with your family.
If they have just a bit of brain they would give us a break from these calls at least for that Christmas — New Year period.