The official Canadian government travel advisory is clear: “Avoid non-essential travel outside Canada until further notice.” Yet many Canadians are either making plans or thinking about a winter vacation in warmer climes. Most face a mind-boggling array of constantly changing regulations as to where they are allowed to go, where it might be safe to […] Read more
Farm Living
January a great time for making marmalade
Two elderly women influenced me in making my marmalade. When I attended university in Edmonton, I boarded at Mrs. Mae Head’s home. She always made marmalade in January from Seville oranges. I can still hear her English accent as she tells me, “January’s the best time to buy oranges, you know. That’s when they’re in […] Read more
Cheaper meat cuts can still be tender, tasty
Types of meat such as round steak and stewing beef can be easy on the pocketbook but satisfying at the dinner table
This time of year we are usually attending three or four hockey games a week but COVID-19 has changed that. Plus, most livestock shows and cattle sales are online only. With more time on my hands I decided to try some new recipes with less expensive cuts of meat such as round steak and stewing […] Read more
Stockade Round-up – photo essay
Photo essay | Organizers say the Stockade Round-up, held earlier this month in Lloydminster, Sask., was the only cattle show to be held in Canada this year. | William DeKay photos
Organizers say the Stockade Round-up, held earlier this month in Lloydminster, Sask., was the only cattle show to be held in Canada this year. Photos by William DeKay.Rural nickname tradition met its match in the early ’70s
Giving neighbours a second name was commonplace back in the day, but what to do when the ‘flower people’ arrived?
Back home on the farm, there were no such things as flocks and herds and litters. To me they were all individual creatures, and I spent many solemn hours as a precocious kid mulling over names for the chickens the pigs, the pups and the kittens. So maybe to a Rhode Island Red it made […] Read moreCutting is symptom of a deeper psychological problem
Q: I have so many feelings going on inside me that I hardly know where to begin. I am angry, sad, depressed, disappointed, embarrassed, and most of all, incredibly lonely. We found out just days ago that our 14-year-old daughter has been cutting herself. She has a piece of glass (looks somewhat like the bottom […] Read more
Indoor masks now mandatory across Sask.
Masks are mandatory in all indoor public spaces in Saskatchewan effective Thursday, Nov. 19. The government announced more restrictions today as cases of COVID-19 continue to rise and hospitalizations increase. As of Tuesday there were 2,055 active cases in the province, with 71 in hospital and 15 of those in intensive care units. There have […] Read more
Sask. expands mandatory mask order
Masks must be worn indoors in 59 more Saskatchewan communities, effective Monday, Nov. 16. A new public health order was issued Nov. 13 and is in place until at least Dec. 4. Regina, Saskatoon and Prince Albert were already covered by a mandatory mask order. Health minister Paul Merriman and chief medical health officer Dr. […] Read more
Telus expands reach into agriculture
Some data management systems have sprung from the field and reached for the sky, but a major telecommunications provider is reaching down from the clouds to connect with the ground. Telus has launched a global agricultural data management company that will offer farmers a way to string together the streams of data that increasingly flow […] Read more
Federal high-speed internet initiative receives $750 million funding boost
Ottawa added $750 million to its Universal Broadband Fund Nov. 9 in a bid to speed up Canadians’ access to high-speed internet. Budget 2019 had allocated $1 billion to the fund, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the COVID-19 pandemic has shown how critical it is that Canadians in rural and remote areas get better […] Read more
