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YORKTON THIS WEEK (May 29) 31 May 2013 | 01:27 am
I’ve been following along on Twitter and through other various forms of media and have noticed there is a considerable amount of criticism being handed out at the City of Saskatoon for not supporting ...
TOO MUCH EMPHASIS ON HITTING FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE ARGUMENT 25 May 2013 | 11:26 pm
As I figured, the decision by Hockey Canada to ban body checking at the Peewee level as generated an incredible amount of opinion on both sides of the fence. As usual, I am not going to take either s...
YORKTON THIS WEEK (May 22) 24 May 2013 | 03:26 am
Pamela Wallin and Mike Duffy both resigned from the Conservative caucus this week amidst the expense scandals plaguing the senators over the last few months. Both are sitting as Independents, which i...
ESPN LAYS OFF HUNDREDS OF EMPLOYEES 22 May 2013 | 12:22 am
ESPN laid off close to 400 workers today in a measure they say “implements changes across the company to enhance our continued growth while smartly managing costs. While difficult, we are confident t...
YORKTON THIS WEEK (May 15) 16 May 2013 | 09:04 am
I lost just about all faith in the human race a long time ago, but that doesn't diminish the amount of disgust I feel when I see this unspeakable crime in Cleveland where a man, allegedly, kept three ...
YORKTON THIS WEEK (May 8) 8 May 2013 | 09:36 am
Longtime Yorkton resident Murray George was kind enough to drop off some old Yorkton newspapers he found last week and there was one newspaper from 1972 that I skimmed through and I was shocked to lea...
ANOTHER CRITICAL NHL COLUMN, SO DON'T READ IF YOU ARE TIRED OF THOSE 4 May 2013 | 12:09 am
If you are one of these people who don’t like critics of the National Hockey League, stop reading. I’ve tuned out this league for a full year now, but it’s almost unavoidable to know what’s going on ...
YORKTON THIS WEEK (May 1) 1 May 2013 | 07:12 pm
I’m sure Yorkton This Week reporter Thom Barker is a nice guy, but if there is a person in Yorkton (other than Calvin Daniels) who isn’t more polar opposite than I am; I would be shocked. Thom wrote ...
COLLINS 'GAY' ANNOUNCEMENT IS A NON-ISSUE 1 May 2013 | 07:05 pm
There have been a few political hot potatoes that I have stepped in recently, so why not tackle another one? NBA player Jason Collins, this week, became the first active professional male sports athl...
YORKTON THIS WEEK (April 24) 24 Apr 2013 | 08:37 pm
The bombings at the Boston Marathon really fired me up last week and I made some comments on Facebook that didn’t sit well with some of my ‘friends’. You know me. I’m not the most politically correc...
