My mother has always been one of my best friends despite her many declarations that mothers cannot be friends, which works out well in my favour. It means as a mother, she must love me unconditionally and as a friend, she must understand the...

I’m not the most experienced driver, it’s true but even I am aware of some basic fundamentals that some drivers in the area seem to have forgotten.

I used to think Saskatchewan had the worst highways. Crossing into the province from the Alberta side of Highway 55 was like skiing down a nice, smooth, wide-open blue run that abruptly turns into a death-trap triple black diamond run with no escape...

In a way, it’s ironic. After spending so many hours covering the election that ended last week and researching the issues, it was the very day after the election ended where one of those issues abruptly became very personal.

In a little over a week, my younger brother will be loading up our parents’ truck and heading west – just as I did about two years ago, also as a fresh post-secondary graduate.

I can’t remember the last time it turned out to be a good thing waking up in the early morning to my cell phone alarm. I prefer to wake up later, naturally.

A quick Google of Vimy Ridge brings up articles on the battle, a turning point in the First World War that saw all four divisions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force working together for the first time. It has become a nationalistic symbol of the...