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View from the Cheap Seats is an extension of the newsroom, which is frequently a site of heated debate on topics ranging from the extremely serious to the utterly ridiculous.

It is becoming more common to hear from our friends and co-workers that they live with depression or anxiety. They are bravely coming forward to open up about the afflictions they deal with on a daily basis.

I recently realized I had become a cynical, angry and negative person. Okay, I didn’t just realize that, what I realized was that being a cyncial, angry, negative person wasn’t working for me anymore.

You will have to forgive me for being in the minority. The Leader-Post released a story on Monday that says if the federal election were to be held again, the Liberals would have even more support than what they did in October.

All Things Considered By Gail Krawetz

Welcome to Week CCVIII of ‘Fishing Parkland Shorelines’. Like most of us I am a novice fisherman, loving to fish, but far from an expert.

( Editor’s note : Rev. Jeffrey Stephaniuk lived in Norquay from 1996 to 1999 and was known throughout a much larger area for playing the bandura at various functions.

There are so many lessons to be learned from the tragedy of the Fort McMurray fire … although the foremost one was likely learned by rural Saskatchewan long ago. At 56.

All things considered...

It’s become clear, in the week since a conflagration sent 88,000 people running in less than a day, that there’s really only one phrase that adequately describes the net result of the Fort McMurray fire. It’s the Miracle of Fort Mac.