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Penny for your thoughts: do Canadians miss the one-cent coin?

Mario Canseco / Glacier Media

December 5, 2019
In 2012, the federal government—at the time headed by Stephen Harper—began to devise a strategy to take the penny out of circulation in Canada. One of the reasons behind ...
Penny for your thoughts: do Canadians miss the one-cent coin?

Debate continues over creationism’s place in Canada’s schools

December 3, 2019

During this year’s federal campaign, religion played a minor role in shaping the perceptions of Canadians on the country’s party leaders. Most of the ink was devoted to ...

Survey gauges evolving Canadian views about treatment of animals

November 21, 2019

The perceptions of Canadians on animal welfare issues have gone through noticeable changes over the past two decades. In Vancouver, we experienced months – if not years –...

Generations point fingers at each other over bad driving habits

November 20, 2019

The experiences of Canadians during the daily commute can be very different. In some municipalities, we continue to see arguments over proper infrastructure, public ...

Exit poll shows half of Canadian voters support changing federal electoral system

October 31, 2019

The jokes and memes that have invaded social media following the Canadian federal election have included a bit of everything. For every disenchanted Conservative Party ...

Plumbing the depths of Canada’s other great divide: Halloween

October 29, 2019

The arrival of Halloween can be accompanied by characteristics that are not particularly joyful. Parents worry about their children trick-or-treating on what is usually a ...

Most Canadians favour NDP-supported Liberal minority government, exit poll finds

October 21, 2019

The 2019 Canadian federal election has ended the way the campaign began, with the two major parties in the country extremely close to each other on voting numbers – albeit ...

Canadians would welcome crackdown on bogus online news: poll

October 15, 2019

A few years ago, the most recurrent joke about social media was related to the arrival of “your parents” to Facebook. It was time for young Canadians to scrap all those ...

National Newspaper Week: Exciting times!

October 7, 2019

This week is National Newspaper Week, and someone’s probably going to ask me how the newspaper business is doing – and when they do, they may use that same tone of voice ...

Environment is No. 1 issue for voters in federal election: poll

October 3, 2019

The federal campaign is now past the midway point, and the environment is now the most important issue for Canadian voters, just a point ahead of the economy and jobs in a ...

‘Brownface’ controversy fails to dent Trudeau’s approval rating

September 27, 2019

In less than month, Canadians will elect a new House of Commons. The first weeks of the campaign provided several opportunities for voters to know more about the leaders,...

Frustration with coal’s future or lack thereof is reaching a boiling point in ...

September 21, 2019

I’ve attended a lot of meetings with politicians at the front of the room since I moved to Estevan in late 2008, but in all that time, I have never seen a small-c ...

Manitoba election outcome a precursor of federal parties’ fate?

September 17, 2019

Some elections in Canada are all about change. In Quebec, only diehard fans and misguided academics expected the Liberal party to somehow stay in power after the 2019 ...

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Penny for your thoughts: do Canadians miss the one-cent coin?

December 5, 2019

In 2012, the federal government—at the time headed by Stephen Harper—began to devise a strategy ...

Debate continues over creationism’s place in Canada’s schools

December 3, 2019

During this year’s federal campaign, religion played a minor role in shaping the perceptions of ...


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Book receiving recognition was penned by former resident

Book receiving recognition was penned by former resident

December 7, 2019

People in the Kamsack area were among the first to hear about a book that has gone on to garner recognition. When We Were Shadows is the title of this book, written by a former Kamsack resident, . . .

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Duck Mountain Provincial Park a popular destination this summer

September 17, 2019

The number of visitors at Duck Mountain Provincial Park were up this summer, and overall, it was a “very enjoyable summer,” according to Greg Podovinnikoff, park manager....

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KCI athletes place at provincial high school golf championships

October 21, 2019

The SHSAA (Saskatchewan High Schools Athletic Association) provincial golf championships were ...

Third annual Madge Lake Walleye Cup

October 8, 2019

The 3rd Annual Madge Lake Walleye Cup (MLWC) is on the books and the weather was in “full ...

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