Thank you to Ryan Taylor for his down-to-earth columns on child rearing. I’m confident his children will be able to read, write and converse with adults, or should I rephrase and say read writing. All children do now is read print and text, they cannot read handwriting or carry on a normal two-way conversation. It’s […] Read more
Stories by Elaine Sloan
Rural doctors
As we approach the date for our fourth federal election in seven years, I would like to ask this question: how can any prime minister with a minority possibly fulfill any election promise or keep our country functioning? Every time I see Jack Layton on TV spouting off about the shortage of doctors and the […] Read more
Mail service – for Feb. 17, 2011
Re: Mail Service (WP, Jan. 13) experienced by John Hamon. During the 1960s and 1970s I lived in Cranbrook, Calgary, Lethbridge, Kelowna and Creston. My mother would mail me a letter from Kelvington, Sask., on a Friday or Saturday and I would receive it the following Monday or Tuesday. What has happened to such great […] Read more
Of meat and water
There has been much discussion on the pros and cons of horse slaughter. There are too many horses, dogs, cats, mule deer and other animals in parts of North America. If other countries can use these types of meat for food why not? Protein is protein. In North America, people eat raccoons, opossum, squirrels and […] Read more
