Dene Moore

SASKATOON – Elwin Hermanson may well be the only MP on Parliament Hill who did not go to school, at least in the conventional way. When he was growing up on a farm near Beechy, Sask., west of Regina, Hermanson’s school desk was the kitchen table. The farm was nestled in a valley about 10 […] Read more

Students sleep on the bus as they travel 60 kilometres or more to the nearest school. Parents battle education bureaucrats and government number crunchers to try to save their local schools and rural school boards. Increasing numbers of parents decide to keep their children home to gain their education through computer or government-developed at-home study […] Read more

Marilyn Munteanu wakes her children around 7 a.m., giving them time to get ready and eat breakfast before the bus arrives at 7:35 a.m. Then her sons, in Grades 10 and 12, and her two foster children in kindergarten and Grade 2, spend the next hour and a half en route to school. Since the […] Read more

When Shelley Moffat has a question about school work, she doesn’t raise her hand. Instead, the 14-year-old from Wembley, Alta., near Grande Prairie, double clicks her computer mouse on the quickmail icon to send messages instantly to her teachers and classmates many kilometres away. Welcome to CyberHigh. There are 99 students and five teachers involved […] Read more

At the Artesian school in Spring Valley, about 70 kilometres southwest of Regina, there has never been a librarian. All the staff pitched in to keep the library up and running. Then, as the staff dwindled to four, they found themselves required to pitch in to keep everything else up and running as well. “As […] Read more

SASKATOON – Stuart Biech’s frustration is growing as fast as the coyote population at the root of it. Biech, a sheep farmer, feels the provincial government is working against sheep farmers when it comes to controlling coyotes. “They won’t let us do what we need to control them,” he said. The use of poison baits […] Read more

SASKATOON – According to SaskPower, the average Canadian household uses 12 trees worth of paper each year. Every Canadian also uses 331 litres of water every day and can waste up to 800 litres of water each month if they let their tap drip instead of fixing it. As well, Canadians throw out 1,500 tonnes […] Read more

SASKATOON – For a person in a wheelchair, traveling takes a lot more planning. For Lynette Machushek of Yorkton, it is sometimes easier to stay home than to face the hassle of traveling by bus in her wheelchair. She has to climb out of her chair and into the bus or get the bus driver […] Read more

BRUNO, Sask. – The debate over the future of the Canadian Wheat Board is no fairy tale, says one of the board’s market analysts. “Be careful of what you ask. You might get it,” Ward Weisensel told a group of about 50 Bruno, Sask., area farmers. The farmers heard Weisensel explain how the board markets […] Read more

SASKATOON – Sask-atchewan’s wild fruit is sweet, but the business opportunity it could create in the province may be sweeter. A study ordered by the Saskatchewan Indian Agriculture Program looked at 12 wild fruits that grow in the province. After talking with berry pickers, food producers, and industry analysts, Solutions 2000+ Management Consultants reported chokecherries […] Read more