Opinion

We now have a vaccine for COVID-19. God, I love saying that. Christmas came early.

As the New Year approaches, the provincial legislature has ended its fall sitting. We did our best to delay some truly egregious legislation the Pallister government brought in.

What a sad couple of weeks this has been.

There are elections coming up here - elections, plural. For anyone looking for a quick little cheat sheet on those, here you go: There’s the Flin Flon byelection Oct. 28 - today.

It’s October and for people like me, that typically means one thing - hockey season is back. Normally, it would be back to Zamboni fumes, cheering on goals with the crew and poking gentle fun at the opposition. Normally is the key word here.

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a huge impact on many people in our region and across Canada. It is particularly impacting small businesses across the country.

Should you find yourself near a larger centre during these days of limited travel, be sure to check out any garden centres for trees, shrubs and perennials. At this time of year, they will offer some great bargains.

Hi. See this paper here? I wrote most of the stuff in it. Nice to meet you. While some of you know me, who I am and what I’m about, I’m sure a lot of people don’t. Let me reintroduce myself. I was raised in Flin Flon. I went to McIsaac and Hapnot.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody’s around to hear it, does it make a sound? That is a classic condundrum posed by some of our finest modern thinkers – Albert Einstein, George Berkeley, even Bruce Cockburn.

What happened to summer this year? It feels like we barely had two weeks of it. The cool weather has settled in, with cool days and cold nights in the forecast. Most gardens have performed reasonably well.