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Well what do you know, our little weekly newspaper has gone and grown up on us, reaching the ripe old age of 110 years old as of last week. Frankly, I don’t think we look a day over a hundred.

Think back about a dozen years ago when we were in the middle of a pre-election fight over education property tax on farmland. Then premier Lorne Calvert vowed to remove it … although his NDP government never quite got around to doing it.

In Backlog Break, Devin Wilger goes through all the games he owns and never got around to playing. This week: Legend of Mana, from 2000. I remember at the time of Legend of Mana’s release, the reviews were scathing.

Why do we need a new hospital? In order to successfully argue for one, and we’ve been arguing for one in the city for a while, we need to actually answer that question.

When I first saw that there was a game called Tank Chess I have to say it was rather intriguing. I am a fan of chess variants in general, so that drew me. But then add the idea of battling tanks, and it was a game I had to check out.

I didn’t sleep well last night. And when I did wake up, in my stupor I recalled the oddest dream. Unfortunately, much of my dream had strong roots in reality. In my dream, there was tension everywhere, between everyone and about everything.

The National Film Board has always been something that Canada could be proud of, producing critically-acclaimed short films, both live action and animated, for decades.

I didn’t sleep well last night. And when I did wake up, in my stupor I recalled the oddest dream. Unfortunately, much of my dream had strong roots in reality. In my dream, there was tension everywhere, between everyone and about everything.

There isn’t really a lot to love about social media these days. Everything is political, or politically correct, or whining and crying about being too much of one and not enough of the other.

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did his town hall session in Regina on January 10, you could expect there would be a few nutbar questions, and, indeed, there were.