REGINA – For the first time since June, 2019, a Crown land sale for oil and gas mineral rights exceeded $6 million. But while the total dollar value was up significantly compared to sales over the last 2.5 years, some parcels went for exceedingly low dollar...
CYPRESS HILLS – Brad Wall is out, when it comes to consideration of who will be the next leader of the federal Conservative party. The question of who would be the next leader of the Conservatives became acute following the Feb. 2 ouster of Erin O’Toole as party...
Ukraine, the land of my ancestors, is about to be invaded by over 100,000 Russian soldiers. And in the Parliamentary debate on Ukraine on Monday, Jan. 31, I heard what was quite possibly the most asinine, idiotic question, and response, ever spoken in a debate on an...
WEYBURN – Rex Murphy will be one of the keynote speakers at the 2022 Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show in Weyburn. The event will take place June 1-2, after a being postponed one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This biennial show is meant to showcase the oil industry...
My late grandfather, Harry Zinchuk, and parents got on a boat in 1930, leaving Ukraine for Canada. They were following his much older brother, Steve, who had come over in 1929. Harry was 13 at the time, having been born in May 1917, during the height of the Great War,...
