Moving vans have been busy this late spring and early summer as hundreds of hockey fans take up residence on Cloud 9.

Someone said they bought their favourite heavy metal album, but it was the censored edition. It ended up being the best instrumental CD they had heard in a long time.

Leger released a new poll asking whether or not we should “cancel Canada Day.” Most of the news media pathetically but predictably took the poll and ran with it, inciting righteous patriotic indignation and shifting focus away from what generated the poll in the first place.

Looking for answers? Here are 20 questions:

Saskatchewan has soared past one million COVID-19 vaccine doses.

My joke for this week ... Question: How do you get a Canadian to apologize? Answer: You step on their foot.

Pop89 feels like a good title for a column by an ex-urbanite whose month-long retreat to a convent-turned-B&B situated on the edge of Grasslands National Park turned into an eight-year immersion into the sort of exquisite darkness and silence that both illuminates the soul and challenges ego on a daily basis.

RCMP Constable Shelby Patton died in the line of duty in Wolseley on June 12.

I recently posted a few photos of our kids and their horses roping, loping, and grinning. I included a caption about how horses bring another welcome set of eyes and another brain into a situation to help riders tackle whatever job they might be working on.

There are hundreds of parades taking place throughout Saskatchewan and Alberta ... graduation parades, accompanied by abbreviated outdoor ceremonies.

It’s 2021 but the 2020 Summer Olympic Games, scheduled for July of last year in Tokyo, Japan but postponed due to COVID-19, are but one month away.

Recently a letter was sent to All Residents’ Families of Long Term Care Facilities from the Saskatchewan Health Authority. It appears the intent of their stated proposal is to standardize pharmacy services to “ensure safe delivery of medications”.

Vaccines are allowing us to win the COVID-19 as Premier Scott Moe hoped and predicted they would.

While we were conducting business in Earl’s office recently, prominently displayed on his desk was a picture of him and his wife in a creative, unconventional pose. Only with a second closer look could be seen a little mite of humanity - their week-old daughter.

Phil Mickelson made history last month at Kiawah Island, winning the PGA at age 50. Can he make history two months in a row?

A kid said to her dad, “Happy Father’s Day! I got you a present, but if you want to get technical, then technically you bought it. By the way, can I borrow $20?”

Well, if you want to freely move about, sit in a full Mosaic Stadium to watch a ‘Rider game and get rid of those masks once and for all, a lot more of us need one dose of COVID-19 vaccine.

‘Great Expectations’ has already been taken as a book title, but perhaps the Edmonton Oilers can use it as a subtitle to their reflections on an abbreviated 2020-21 National Hockey League season.

Russell Peters is a Canadian stand-up comedian who is on the list of the world’s highest paid comedians, which means people think he’s funny.

The Trudeau government is throwing freedom of expression under the bus so the entertainment and culture lobby can pocket more dough.